MarketSmith Review: Is IBD’s Charting Platform Worth the Money?

Little on the expensive side but hands down the best research website for fundamentals and tech. I love stockcharts but will not switch due to them not having some of the customer screens MS has such as the Minervini screeners, etc.

My experience with their support coaches has been great. I use a lot of IBD free products so I feel happy to contribute to IBD through MS.

Leaderboard is horrible. They pick stocks that are completely out of line with the IBD investing principles, and by the time they recommend buy something its reached its peak, then they tell you to sell at a loss. I honestly believe its a pump amd dump scam. I tried following Leaderboard investing principles on “paper” for a few months and I would have LOST about 20%. You’d be better off picking stocks by throwing darts at a dartboard. And they charge $70/month for that! Leaderboard isn’t about making money for investors, its about making money for IBD. STAY AWAY!!!

Awesome if you read How to Make Money in Stocks. The key is identify stocks being accumulated by big, smart money. Watch as they build a constructive base. And breakout higher when smart money’s buying volume makes it happen.

Yes, it provides fundamental data and screening. However, it is extremely slow and clunky. Just changing to the next symbol takes a few seconds. The software is garbage. As for the charting, it’s ok and does provide interesting data. Here again, way too slow to be effective after coming up with a list of stocks. As for support it is ok, however the instructional videos and webinars have several so-called experts congratulating themselves on adding some small feature etc. Slimy, self-serving A-holes. No idea why the company allows this kind of presentations.

All this for $150 a month? Not worth it. This is really a $25 per month value at best. Not recommended.

These bad reviews only show me that the individuals don’t know anything about CANSLIM. If they gave it enough time they would realize it is very helpful. I was, at first, disappointed that they don’t have candlesticks but now don’t care because everything else is so great.

Tried the 21 day trial. Watched many tutorials and scheduled two coaching sessions only to learn they do not offer any time on an individual basis as I was told when I signed up for the service. Was sent an email to join a group Zoom session, AFTER the meeting ended. Talked to training coach and customer service….. extremely rude and condescending. Not paying $1,500/year to a company that treats it customers so poorly. Canceled my account after 24 hours.

Good techno-fundamental research tool but primitive charts. Real time data sometimes has extreme latency, and audio alerts stop working at random. They REFUSE to fix it, insisting it’s my fault. I even bought a new computer. Still flaky. I guess they don’t need my business.

It’s a good source for company information and research tools for ideas on investments. But it’s not what I was looking for in a research platform for $150 a month. Not much news information if you want to keep up with what’s going on in the markets. So for $150 a month you can do way better elsewhere.

The Coach tells you right off that the service passes stock selection to the customer and makes no suggestions. I suppose that an investor that has nothing else to do but chart, analyze and select, will find MARKETSMITH WORTH $169 a month. If not that committed, Leaderboard makes decisions as to the BUY POINT but gives no predictive clues in my opinion. Never take a major position without a trailing stop loss and always have a breakthrough investment with a buy parameter.

I found this cloud-based software to be a valuable resource to select stocks based on fundamentals. The stock chart view lacks many functions available on free viewers. Specifically, there is no ability to zoom the charts for a specific time frame. No open-low-high-close or candlestick charts available. No indicators available other than moving averages. The stock news is ridiculously limited to only what is sourced from either yahoo or the investors business daily. During the trading day, their back-end servers seem to bog down making the response time so slow that the tool is effectively useless. On my beefed up Macintosh systems, the tool frequently locked up and displayed an error message encouraging exiting the program to improve responsiveness. To summarize, Marketsmith is a useful tool to screen stocks on fundamentals, but at a price of $150/month, the missing features for graphing stocks, no indicators, and poor functionality encouraged me to cancel my subscription and look for another tool.

Great info but antiquated technology. Looks like a website from 15 years ago. Upgrade your tech already.

Definitely one of the best in business for both individual and institutional investors! Highly detailed and full of tools and settings to optimize your research and make weighted decisions. Quick and friendly support. Lots of education available on investors.com for free. Highly recommended!

Great charting with fundamental/technical indicators for comparison and timing elements. I have never seen better for individual investors. Lots of transparent structure and options to customize, In combination with regional meetups and educational products, IBD’s Marketsmith is well worth the subscription.

If you’re a CAN SLIM investor, MarketSmith is a tool that will make your life a whole lot easier. William O’Neil’s rules and strategies are nicely integrated into the platform and it will save you a lot of time when screening for stocks and performing in-depth research.