Verified InvestingReviews of verifiedinvesting.com

I have been with this service a little over a year. I have lost more money in this service than in my entire trading career of 10 years. Gareth Soloway has been chasing shorts the entire time, which includes the SOXS, S&P 500 and Nvidia to name a few. The losses are usually quite large 12 percent of portfolio for each loss. Wins are normally 1 percent of portfolios. He is constantly trying to pick the bottom and top of charts and often fails. I am upset with myself that I got hooked into thinking his methodology was sound. I would not recommend this to a new or seasoned trader.

Lose Money it’s terrible advice Had been a subscriber for the service for 1 year. It started well, the first month was even profitable (worse than index investing though) but the rest of it was a disaster. The traders running the service are holding onto massive losses on shorts for years (they give recommended stop targets, but never follow them themselves as they say in videos for subscribers): NVDA (down 250%), SMCI (down 56%), GE (down 92%), MSFT, AAPL. These positions are down so much and are so overweight in the portfolio, that any further trades in 2025 will not recover their portfolio to 0% loss, even if markets correct 50% like these traders expect. The best they can do is limit the losses when and if the markets correct, but they will still be double digit losses percentage-wise for the overall portfolio a subscriber of this service would hold. That is, if the traders running this subscription service didn't get margin called, which they should have been (as mentioned in one subscriber video from beginning of 2024, they were close). You can do so much better :). Even a bank deposit is better than this service. And SP500 index investing is massively outperforming this active trading "methodology" in the last 2 years. Service subscribers are never shown total portfolio P&L that would be formed if they followed the trade signals. Which is the most basic metric of whether you should bother with this service. One of the traders running the service started doing that in IBKR account in a couple of subscriber videos and then pulled the plug on the idea. He probably figured revealing the overall portfolio performance YoY (it should be about minus 50% or more) would scare subscribers away. Only two things are shared (instead of overall portfolio performance): their entry points (average price, short/long, and the time the position was opened), and "portfolio' percentage" of the position. But there are so many tricks buried into portfolio percentages, you will never figure out their overall portfolio P&L mathematically. I will share just one of the many things they do so you can never figure out the overall P&L. Let's say you want to throw in 100K to test the methodology offered (beware that they can go up to 2-3x of the initial 100% allocation, but let's forget that nitpick). Say, they claim they are long T, for 10% of the portfolio (10K) at average price X. And then the next day T's price goes down 50%. That position is now 5% of the portfolio money-wise, they would say, but the overall portfolio actually shrunk. That also means overall portfolio is down 5% (this information is not shared). Consider multiplying this simple example 50 times for 50 open positions like this one, and then you can understand that the overall portfolio performance becomes impossible to deduct from the partial information the service is exposing to subscribers. You know what's even funnier? A few years ago they simply added the gain they had on closed trades (and only closed trades, not accounting for massive losing trades that are still open) to form a crazy number like +1756% and that was declared as yearly performance :). For example, they would close 3 tiny 1% of portfolio positions for 10% gain and in that case they'd declare +30% as an overall result. Current situation is no more transparent and no more accurate than the above. They also feed you other bits of partial information that is true (like 5 last successful 1% portfolio trades they made 10% on) but they never share the full picture (like their overall portfolio across all positions in aggregate being down 50%) which is what you need to know when considering whether to follow this methodology. Note that I meticulously copied all the trade signals given by the service so the numbers above aren't random. The above is not my opinion, it's the overall portfolio P&L (2023--2024) which is the information you will never come across being a subscriber of Verified Investing/Smart Money: Stocks and ETFs. Best of luck with investing and learning how to do that somewhere else.

Verified Investng team provides great overview of the markets with observations, specific chart setups and ideas. This is the best service in finance I've seen in 8 years of my presence in the financial markets. It is truly "No BS, just charts", and I really appreciate the work they are doing.

I had a problem with streaming the Deep Dives and Tessa got it taken care for me!! Excellent service!

Absolutely unbelievable anyone is giving this service positive reviews. Lost $100,000 with this service. His success rate is measured off closed trades. He fails to mention the MASSIVE amounts of money he is down in open trades. These amounts account for over 100% of the recommended allocations. This means according the recommendations ALL your money is in theses trades. That would leave ZERO for your open more trades. Simple math. Total scam.

Very positive experience. Trading together with the group has helped me a lot with my focus and consistency. The ability to ask and listen to questions and answers is strong guidance for understanding the trades.

At Verified Investing, they guide individual investors make good decisions and they explain well so you can learn how to make good trades because it's all about the charts. They are very good.

Gareth Soloway and team appear to be well meaning people; but their ability to understand what is truly going on in the markets behind the scenes is very poor. Every week they send out a summary email advertising how they win say “7 out of 7” trades usually at about 10% on average; but that doesn’t show the full picture. There are many more “swing” trades that date back several months that are severely underwater. If you make 20 trades a week and win only 5 a week, where will you be in 3 months? I am losing my shirt following Gareth’s trades. Drew D. is the best analyst there but I did not renew my quarterly service if that tells you anything.