Why don’t you give stock pick recommendations?
I don’t give recommendations because I need to be able to sleep at night! While that answer works great for me, I can understand why it might not satisfy the intent of the question, so let me hit this from a few different angles. The first is that I have over 11,000 subscribers and over 100,000 daily readers of MB content (across all forms of media); I can’t possibly know each reader’s particular set of circumstances (risk tolerance, experience, investment time horizon, skill) to a level that would make me feel comfortable making a recommendation to the entire MB audience. What might work for me (long-term investor who is almost always “market available”) might not work for an OFW who only gets to trade every 3 days, or for a short-term event-based trader who lacks the systems to “babysit” a long-term trade. The second is that even if I made a suggestion on what to buy, the circumstances that prompted that suggestion will likely change almost every single day, and I don’t have the time to qualify and alter those picks as those circumstances change. What makes a stock a great pick one day might not be true another day, or even later that same day for that matter. I’m uncomfortable producing content that will remain visible to millions of people long after I’ve stopped thinking about keeping it up-to-date. The third is that while it feels great to hear the success stories from traders who have used my content as a springboard to “go deeper” and get some wins, it absolutely crushed me when (in the past) I made suggestions to friends that didn’t turn out. They lost money, and I felt responsible. I don’t want to carry that feeling while doing something I love.
