Gorilla Trades Offers All-Inclusive Approach To Investing
Stock-Picking System Fills Void For Investors
Dec. 19 2006
Running alongside the impressive print ads of industry giants who advertise in discriminating, high-profile publications like Barron's and Investors Business Daily ... sandwiched among the television spots of leading brokerages running commercials on CNBC and Bloomberg Television ... are the advertising messages of an
unlikely contender: six year-old Gorilla Trades.
An online stock-picking service, GorillaTrades.com is enjoying wide recognition as one of the largest subscriber services of its kind, even if that specific "kind" is hard to pinpoint in today's vast online jungle of picking and trading services. Yet, according to its founder, Gorilla Trades appears to be something entirely different - a company that fills the void left after a time when most trading was done by brokers at brick-and-mortar brokerages that generated their own, biased research to mollify clients. Since the 2000 dot-com crash, online trading has increased dramatically. Today, independent research providers such as Gorilla Trades, have shifted into a more credible form, driven by research that uses technical analysis. And this unbiased, technically-based research is apparently the key to success.
"When I call my full service broker, I often get the impression he's pitching whatever products were pushed at the morning meeting, with all their fat management fees attached," says long-time GT subscriber Bruce Liebowitz of Farmington Hills, MI. "It gives me a real appreciation for the
objective, independent research that Gorilla Trades provides."
Over the years, Gorilla Trades has refused offers to partner with any brokerages, mutual funds, hedge funds or venture capitalist funds. Says GT's founder: "We set out to be independent and unbiased in our research, and we'll remain that way. One hundred percent of our revenue
comes from subscription fees and no other source."
Founded in 2000, Gorilla Trades bridges the gap between credible -- if not unwieldy -- online companies that merely sell software and stock market data to its subscriber investors, requiring them to create their own stock picking formulas ... and illegitimate web sites that tout penny stocks or impart bogus information. Instead, Gorilla Trades sells a "managed process" for successful portfolio-building over the long term and helps its subscribers make intelligent buying and selling decisions offering information and management tools to reduce risk.
"We take the guesswork out of managing a stock portfolio," says the founder, who cites exemplary subscriber services such as specific stock recommendations along with targets and stop loss levels - levels that are adjusted weekly to maximize returns.
The information is proprietary, but the founder does reveal that his company uses an analytical system that examines the interrelationship between stock price and trading volume. GT sifts through more than 6,000 stocks every day to identify those that most closely match each of 14
technical indicators of explosive upward movement. It isn't foolproof, but the system offers a tested "best-chance" scenario for picking stocks, he says.
Lack of unbiased research at traditional brokerages, combined with a lack of legitimate online stock-picking services, has catapulted GorillaTrades to the top of the heap of service providers. With subscribers in 55 countries and growing, GT is laying claim to being the fastest-growing stock picking service in the world. The company has grown by 8000% -- on average, 1333% annually since December, 2000. Evidence of this success is manifest in the company's generous advertising budget - more than $4 million in ad spending in U.S. markets during 2006 alone.
The founder attributes that phenomenal growth to his company's role in filling the void initiated by vast changes in the industry. "Simply stated, there is no other system as innovative and as reliable
overall as ours, and GT continues to grow exponentially because it works for subscribers." |