Verified InvestingReviews of verifiedinvesting.com

I purchased Apex live trading because I'm a regular follower of Gareth on YouTube. Unfortunately, the voice and video lag are quite bad, and because Gareth and his team work on microscopic margins, I'm never able to replicate the same price at which they place their orders. I'm actually making a loss rather than any profits. It's not really benefiting me at all. I literally used it for 2 days and requested if I could switch my payment towards "smart money: ETF," but they refused any change or cancellation. Please be aware of this before you proceed with any purchase. I felt like it was a total waste of $400. Sadly! 😞

Somehow they got my last review taken down but this matter is serious and needs to be taken serious. Please take the time to read the other 1 star reviews. I am shocked at this business lack of integrity. Gareth needs to be held accountable. The records show short NVDA 1.5 percent on March 22 2023, Add NVDA 1.5 percent May 19th 2023, Add NVDA 3 percent May 25th 2023 and then add NVDA 6 percent on June 14th 2023. The original portfolio size of this position was 12 percent, then the position continued to go 300 percent loss in the red which would equal the 12 percent to 40+ percent position size continued to grow. Explain the accounting on Aug 4 2025 add of 7 percent totaling 14 percent of portfolio size. Not to even mention the average price impossible to make sense. Explain how this accounting is "educational". Tons of other red flags. Stay away.

Gareth might as well name his company “Vulture Investing.” Can’t take credit for that one but it’s beyond fitting so had to. He’s a complete Joke in the community. Extremely expensive for the garbage pail he wants people trapped in. There is plenty of free information and real traders out there you can follow or join that actually win and show you how. For instance: Kyle Doops, Trader Mayne, Camel Finance, AskSlim to name few. Don’t get “SoldAway” on your hard earned money. It’s time that you will never get back. This may not be most eloquent review but at least it’s honest. Not sure how Gareth lives with himself. I mean imagine having children and doing people the way he does. 24% of entire portfolio on one trade that fails. He will probably say he didn’t put that alert out but he will be a liar if he does. He 100% did and I have photo evidence plus many more screenshots. What an absolute Weasel. This was his trade alert that he actually added to and only one of them that totally screwed me: Crypto: BTC/USD Buy/Short: Short Entry Date: 11/06/2024 Average Price: $86,120.00 Stop: $105,000.00 Target: $60,000.00 Recommended % Of Portfolio: 24% or Less Go look at the chart and see what happened. It’s all right there for everyone to see. Bet he says oh but the stop loss. Add up all the trades and his claimed 90% win rate. Nobody, and I mean Nobody has a win rate like that. I was the Fool. But I won’t be fooled again. At least by him. I wish they would ban him. Where is the SEC and the investigation into his B-book??? Please help save us Americans from the fraud that he is. If you read this Gareth, Don’t reply. I want you out of my life forever! Your face makes me cringe every time now.

I have been a member following gareth since 2022 when it was INTHEMONEYSTOCKS. My portfolio has never recovered since and have sat with huge unrealized losses just praying for an economic disaster so that I would make some back. His marketing is very catchy and he really will play into your emotions like he is different “outperforming the market” and “creating real wealth”. Verified Investing was created and members were transferred over. Since Verified Invested things have gone quite strange.Just dont ask him about his NVDA position. I consistently send him all of the compiled information on this and it week after week goes ignored by his whole team and him. In his videos he will use phrases to keep you hooked in and on the edge of possibilities but it’s all a delusional scheme not following his own methodology. I have spent weeks posting questions through the appropriate channels emailing and calling support only for them to refer on down the line with no real answers. I have given his team and gareth weeks to acknowledge and give responses to any of these holes in their reporting and they wont even acknowledge this or give me the time of day. Please believe the other 1 star reviews. I understand having some bad trades but I cannot accept the lack of integrity and gaslighting. I hate to write this review because at times I have loved this service and education provided but at this point I am left with no choice to steer others away from getting hurt. I would love for them to contact me and make this all right but until then I will follow through with the options available to me like posting this review to the public. Update.. October 17th my subscription was renewed for $396. October 24th this review was flagged and I have been locked out of my account with no explanation or refund. They wont answer my calls, support emails or scheduled meetings. Very concerning. Why would they ignore me if they have nothing to hide? Why would they delete my account following the trade if they have nothing to hide?

Don't bother! I have been a paying client for almost 5 years for stocks and crypto service. I had to end the stock subscription as almost all my stocks were in the red. I signed up for the three trading courses strategies, setups and secrets of a winning trader that currently cost $10k with the understanding that I will have access to them forever. SCAM alert... apparently it says in the terms & conditions that you pay $10000 for only 8 months! And then you can sign up again, I guess, for another $10k for another 8 months?! Gareth is average at best....and now lost all credibility. Verified Investing is not a honest and honourably company... don't waste your time and money on these scammers. Watch the daily free youtube videos and you get your money's worth!

The whole platform, app and alert service are actually great. There is a lot of good information throughout their website and I really do appreciate Gereths daily commentary on markets. Risk and portfolio management are absolutely abysmal and this is not designed for retail no matter how much he spins it this way. What is disingenuous is how the portfolio is handled when it becomes absolutely bloated with shorts as the market continues to march on many, many months after he would have expected a pullback by. Positions that may have started off small end up very large and considerably out of the money. Like all of them... at once. Along the way anyone who does not have a large amount of extra money to put into the account to cover nearly daily margin calls will eventually be on their own choosing which positions to either remove for a loss and which ones you can no longer add to. Even when using 2X leverage you still need much more additional money to just maintain margin and this is not even accounting for the fact that he just keeps continuing to both add new positions and add to basically every other position and we've still seen no significant pullback so this would be impossible for anyone else. I have reached out multiple times about this very thing and get basic information like "they are only recommendations" or "I know that it is hard to hold losing positions, they more often than not come back into the money eventually." And we still do not know how squeezed our account will be and how many adjustments and losses we would have to have taken by then. There is no humbleness it is just double down over and over for many months. The whole premise of Verified Investing is that it is information for retail to get an edge over big money which is absolutely laughable and you will get wrecked shorting like he does. He shoots from the hip constantly and never adjusts anything. This method may have worked when he made all his money but it is a disaster in this market. Eventually I am sure he will make some money on a lot of these positions but any normal person would have been unable to take positions/add to existing positions/have a worse average when he finally gets out of a position and you are then left either taking a loss where he exits or will be on your own maintaining the position and praying it corrects more than Gareth needed it to by. As I type this I am still watching my account go down as it does every single day in this bubble. Every technical he has focused on has broken and he just finds yet another one that's "so important" but most likely doesn't work either. You end up praying for these large corrections that are so few and far between and by the time it finally comes your account is so battered and bruised you are grateful to even get a chunk of initial money back in which case what is the point of it all and why pay for the service. Any longs that we have are quickly unloaded around 10% only to subsequently see them run up sometimes 100's of additional %. For someone who traded through multiple bubbles, the advice that is given is a surefire way to blow up your account on the way up. Anyone could just short any high flyers over and over. At my breaking point with this service as I am underwater a massive amount and in margin calls nearly daily and have added a lot of extra money myself and also had to take significant losses as well. Update 10/27/25 They flagged this review as "defamatory content" but couldn't get it taken down so they had to reply to it below. A bad look on this company and it seems like they can't take any valid criticisms from anyone and continually shut off comments. Cannot imagine the money that could be made doing the opposite of Gareth as he "builds his short positions" for 3/4 of the year. Update 11/10/25 259.8% of the portfolio is now being used to break even with positions massively out of the money and still no end in sight. Update 1/15/26 Gareth just said on a daily video that he is now going to be using a new system that will show true P&L and we will be able to see his exact account figures and he'll be able to maintain it as "one portfolio." Like WTH were you doing before? I thought the whole point of recommendations as percentages of a portfolio were that you were maintaining your portfolio as a whole. Its so disingenuous and he just says it as some passing comment. He needs to be more honest and forthright. This whole experience has been so disappointing, I am going to pray these markets correct and I am done following his advice. It is WAY too risky for the average person and I would consider myself more open to risk and able to sit on my account being out of the money more than the majority and even I am just so done with this. Feels like getting stabbed over and over daily. There is also absolutely no way these recent excellent reviews are all legit, no way.

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.