I have subscribed to IBD for over 30 years. IBD has progressively moved toward an unapologetic money mill constantly urging benign upgrades and now limiting news feeds emplying the carrot and the stick marketing technique. William O'neil at best was a mediocre fund manager who decided to sell the oil lamps with the CANSLIM (can'tswim) investment method that has proven ineffective time and again. to wit the FFTY, a fund that tracks the IBD 50, has performed abysmally since its inception. If this an etf that tracks the performance of IBD's methodology and ideology than doesn't it tell something about the methods employed? The proof of concepts is failing. The center cannot hold and pretty sure William O'neil is either dead or suffers from dementia. The information provided is good however some of the data is incorrect as they don't always reflect the true revenues or debt held by the equities covered because they fail to update. They are on the west coast so they are a bit out of step with Wall Street too. Some may take this as a welcome different point of view but their methodology admittedly has a small influence on the market as a whole; their writeup and selections do very little to advance the volume of any stock they list or promote. They also are shameless in their excessive advertising using popups for discount brokers who advertise heavily on their website. This reflects their bias toward rapid selling and buying which the Discount online brokers enjoy but few who trade often ever make money. So if you can stay away from their voodoo methodology and just use their data as a starting point then you might be able to uncover some gems but remember you have to wade through all the noise and sputum thrown at you to get to the good stuff. I still use it but the quality is progressively becoming more mercantilist and limited with a large ambiguous bias: We are not telling you to buy this stock but it sure looks pretty. The Big Picture will give a nice snap shot but if you follow the market it will just echo what the talking heads are saying. Lastly they are very heavily biased toward the NASDAQ, even though they lag it in performance and most certainly lag against the S&P 500. Also rising interest rates and any hint of a bear market will crush your performance but don't be fooled in trying to time-- timers never win. At IBD you might find some gains on an updraft of a bull market but will lose the death of thousand knives that all rapid cyclers die of. The idea of cutting loses short has been proven time and again to be flawed against a simple buy and hold strategy of good equities some of which you might find in their pages only if you can resist their urging to churn your portfolio with the blessing of their advertising discount brokers.