Investor's Business Daily Reviews

IBD App is excellent.

Bring current stories, news and articles to the front banner build upon it to keep people’s interest to come back to IBD as a reliable source of daily business news relevant to IBD.

I know IBD is right slanted publication like wsj. I recommend that you should completely drop any political preference and become politically agnostic with no bias to bring in business news, un-varnished analyses and data, knowing that your readership is 1/2 right and 1/2 left and it is not your job to please one or the other.

IBD’s strength is data and analyses. IBD has great potential to expand as an agnostic publication to attract the younger investors - note, some thing like >50% of investors are less than 40 years of age. What is IBD age demographics? I bet there are a lot more of old people.

My suggestions above are to improve IBD and expand its subscription base with a target of constantly decreasing the avg age of subscribers. Going digital and in the middle of a pandemic, IBD has an opportunity to improve and expand and attract age group from 20s to 40s who will be your customers for many decades.
Raghu Raghavan

I disagree with many of the positive reviews here. I signed up for a premium subscription. I also agreed to a 2 week trial of the leaderboard. I downloaded InvestorsBusinessDaily and started reviewing InvestorsBusinessDaily . Right off an ad popped up. I was thinking by paying to use the site, no ads would appear. I could not cancel the ad without exiting InvestorsBusinessDaily and restarting. Also, the detail of stocks is limited. There are dozens of free apps that provided a whole lot more information on stocks than InvestorsBusinessDaily. The leader board I agreed to pay around $50 per month after the 2 week trial, provided a list of stocks IBD thinks will breakout or are buys. Guess what... the other apps I have been using listed the very same stocks without paying a subscription. When I did see a couple stocks recommended that I had not seen on any other list, I had to go to another app to read the summary of the stock, look for volume traded per day etc.... even the screener I found here isn’t as good as what my trading account provides for free. I’m disappointed. I thought one or two recommendations for trades here may pay for this program. But I wouldn’t feel comfortable making a trade recommended from here when they can’t even present a decent web page to research why they recommend a stock.

I read the book by Mr. O’Neil and I bought into the ideals. I immediately purchased the IBD and only had the newspaper version for my first few months. Then I decided to try the digital IBD because it may have things that I’m not getting in the paper. It seems to be exactly the opposite. InvestorsBusinessDaily is very poorly put together and has a cheap feel to it. As an investor, I want something that is going to give me every chance to succeed. I honestly think the generic app on my iPad called “Stocks” and the Yahoo! Finance app give me more than the IBD app. I don’t want it to be this way. I love IBD and that’s why I’m taking time to write this. I’m hoping that something can be done. A major restructuring of the entire app is needed in my opinion. I want it to have charts the way the newspaper has them and with the notes underneath. The current charts in InvestorsBusinessDaily look cheap and difficult to read. I want to see sharper charts showing the high, low, and the finishing mark. I want to see InvestorsBusinessDaily be easier to navigate and have more to it. After 5 minutes it seems I’ve seen everything InvestorsBusinessDaily has to offer. Thank you for reading.

Brad (West Virginia)

It’s as if the folks at Investor’s Business Daily can’t be bothered updating their apps. This one, Swing Trader, Leaderboard etc are phone versions only. They would likely look great filling the screen of an iPad … if anyone at IBD would be bothered to do it. If they can’t stay up with the times for this … it makes one wonder how little time and effort they are spending on the rest. Until they do … I will not consider subscribing. Note: MarketSmith is the only app that does look good on an iPad).
Also…
- alerts when tapped on do not take you to the article that generated the alert. Instead it throw me into the most recent video … which typically has nothing to do with the article.
- IBD bombards you with advertising in their products, website etc … often for products you may already have. I get trying to advertise your other products … but hitting existing customers up with promos for products the customer already subscribes to is just inconsiderate, clumsy and short sighted… not to mention it gives off an air of incompetence.

The stock market is one of the best ways to create Financial Independence. Wealth if you will. ...but if you turn your back and fail to watch the market it can be very cruel. I paid dearly for that lessons years ago trading on my own. IBD takes away the worry and endless work. When I buy when IBD buys and sell when they sell, all is well. 2020 results are a perfect testament to the brilliance of their founder Willian J. O'Neil's work. Several of the stocks and funds that I bought in 2020 are up over 100%. Most of the rest are over 40%. Not that I did not buy some losers but IBD helped me to take the lose and move on. Which is the hardest investment move to make. I pay for every service that IBD offers. One smart trade a year and I paid for everything in a couple of hours.

Content is excellent as always, but app is much more annoying to use than it was prior to most recent update. Constantly having to re-Sign In (even during an active session) and, more crucially, when trying to look at charts it frequently gives “loading” message, not just for one stock but most or all the ones I want to look at... sometimes never does load up. This is more conspicuous during what I assume to be high traffic hours: that is, soon after open or before close and on highly volatile days. This decreases its usefulness substantially since of course those are the times when I really want to look at the charts too. Looking through recent reviews I can see I’m not the only one experiencing this.

Very intuitive design with enormous amounts of excellent information at your fingertips.
It’s an excellent tool on a standalone basis but integrates flawlessly with other IBD premium tools (MarketSmith & Leaderboard). IBD, in general, is simply the best when it comes to education, information & actionable tools for the everyday investor.
I would never tell you it’s the least expensive, but if you’re serious about making consistent money in the markets you have to treat it like a business. To that end, IBD essentially offers institutional level R&D (research stocks & funds; develop trading plan & style) for a relatively modest expense. If used properly, your ROI should vastly exceed your IBD expense, every year.

This latest update allows me to finally utilize IBD resources, the way I desire to use them, more efficiently and effectively without having to rely on my paper edition, which often arrives later than I desire anyway. The callouts of recent chart actions were not there previously. Those callouts help me to more quickly spot the stocks I want to focus my efforts on, and the other info is right there instantly. I’m quite pleased with these changes! Please note that I still want my paper edition, though! And it would be nice to be able to swipe to next chart in list rather than going back to list each time, but to me that’d just be an added convenience.

I’ve used InvestorsBusinessDaily for at least 6 mo. It’s been very helpful and useful. But in the past week or so, the stock charts just stopped coming up on my iPhone 11Pro. It says “retrieving data” but the charts never come in. I tried clearing my web history. Signing out and signing back in. Turning my phone off and then back on. Nothing has worked. Everything was fine for the last 6 mo. Then in the past week they just stopped working. I guess I’ll try reinstalling InvestorsBusinessDaily . But it shouldn’t be this difficult.

Overall InvestorsBusinessDaily is pretty good and bug free. Only thing really annoying about it is that periodically when I don’t use InvestorsBusinessDaily for a while and try to use it again, I cannot see the full list of any of the designated lists under “My Stock Lists” until I “re-log” back in, even though before I “re-log” in, I check under “More” to confirm that i am logged in and it says “Sign Out” which means I that am already logged in! But I still can’t see the full list until I log back in. Please fix this issue because it is very cumbersome to have to log in like that every time, especially since Touch ID hasn’t been designed yet for InvestorsBusinessDaily! When is Touch ID coming on InvestorsBusinessDaily or the MarketSmith app?

I Love IBD in general. Makes me a little crazy that the screen doesn’t rotate in many cases. I’ve checked to be sure its not locked enough that I know its not the problem and my other apps seem to work in this manner very well. I like to use IBD on my IPad and the magic key board only lets me use it in the landscape position. The problem does not always exist, but seemingly really bad when viewing charts. I’m hoping this problem get’s resolved soon! Other than that, IBD helps me make many if not most of my investing decisions and I appreciate all their hard work. As soon as I see that issue resolved , I’ll add the fifth star.

Prudent investing begins with knowledge gathering. Before you make a buy, provide yourself with all the knowledge & information you can gather.
Be knowledgeable about the market sector your potential purchase is in.
How is that sector performing ?
Within that sector, where is your potential pick performing, leading the sector, middle of the pack, following the crowd, or trailing the field, with low expectations of any real success !
Finally, who’s driving ?
Who’s making the decisions ?
Do they have a track record of producing past winners ?
Do they understand the market sector ? How long have they played in that market sector ?
I feel that getting the answers to the above questions and giving a particular stock an honest evaluation will give you potentially the best and most profitable answer to the question, should I invest in this company ?
Armed with the above answers, make your decision, and pull the trigger.
As in everything in life, ask God for the answer, and he will show you the way !

App is good, but not great! Don’t get me wrong, IBD’s content is second to non. But the presentation of that content leaves much to be desired. The much needed iPad version is no where to be found? Which is a real shame given the potential of displaying charts on a larger iPad display. There is a real lack of coherent menus that could used to navigate IBD’s numerous content sections. For example, there is no way to navigate or find “The Big Picture” link? One must read through different articles and basically stumble upon it? Finally, IBD app is only for paying customers so why is the user getting bombarded with constant advertisement? This alone makes for a very poor user experience, especially on small iPhone screens.

I have listened to many of the investing and economic podcasts out there. Investors Business Daily’s podcast is by far my favorite. The host of the podcast is very well spoken and has a great voice. He is very pleasant to listen to, which is very rare in the genre. On top of that the show provides great information on the current state of the markets as well as IBDs investing strategies ie CANSLIM. They also provide many great trading ideas and insight to the specific stocks on their proprietary stock lists. All around great podcast and very informative for long-term investors, position and swing traders.

CAN SLIM provides a sound, logical process for the selection of stocks and a plan of action for buying and selling. It explains the value of understanding the basis of market trends and stages clearly and concisely. It will require your commitment to study and intellectually integrate the steps, but it is not difficult; it just takes time when starting out. Your profitability will increase with your commitment to the learning of and adherence to the sound investment rules and process provided. Anyone can learn the process; just start, learn, and enjoy your journey.

Been with IBD since 1988 my go to place along with market Smith / daily graph i’ve been with IBD and also work at Smith I have bought just about all the books and read them I find this the best of the best to get your information on stocks in the marketWhen there are new buys or stocks breaking out into new Highground this information and the fundamentals and a technicals I’ve learned so much specially with 30% fundamentals and 70% technicals how to do any job thank you so much you’ve been rich me and cost me to get richer thank you so much

I learned a lot from IBD, left and went on my own.
I wanted new ideas for a potential market boom and came back. I was disappointed with a trade I made based on information and did not finish with the trial offer, but have returned and will join again soon. I have made good trades from their information , good results well beyond the cost. I see it has made some very good changes and opened up information for long term investing. I apologize to IBD some of the notes I wrote. Satisfied customer:) Return User 20

The most comprehensive list of Fundamental and Technical information available to individual investors. IBD’s CANSLIM methodology reduces risk and gleams out opportunistic stock ideas. The onus is on the shoulder’s of the individual investor to act in a rational manner, which will greatly increase the probability for significant gains with your portfolio. IBD provides nothing but a continuous stream of pertinent stock and general market information. Succinctly written market information from an objective point of view - So refreshing!

I added about 15 or 20 stocks to be my stock tracking list as a new potential client and I was working on this rather diligently for sometime across three different accounts that I manage at Vanguard only to find out that there was a problem with the memory of InvestorsBusinessDaily where it dropped every single thing that I added in there which took me 45 minutes to an hour to do. I was a little tweaked about that and would highly recommend anybody seriously consider using this iOS app to report it as I’m doing here. Very annoying and a very much of a waste of time

There is no doubt about the value of IBD as a publication, however, InvestorsBusinessDaily designers would have never made it to the IBD 1000 list.
When opening InvestorsBusinessDaily , it displays in a vertical format, no rotation. When you open it on an i-pad attached to a keyboard sleeve, it gets really awkward.
When reviewing the IBD 50, again, same problem, but wait, when you go into the stock detail, the charts flip to horizontal. You can always recognize IBD users for their handiness in turning their device. Guess when you are a serious investor, you are a nerd, so embrace it.
In addition, InvestorsBusinessDaily is unstable and does not respond regularly. Very frustrating when attempting a stock review using IBD.
It also continues to ask for subscribing, only to then acknowledge ‘oh wait you have a subscription’.
Last but not least, it’s the reverse ‘Hotel California’: “you can check out anytime you like, but can’t check back in”. (clearly latest hit by the sparrows).

Overall, InvestorsBusinessDaily is pretty good and I would have given it 4 stars. 5 of it were fluid and faster. But I’ve had to reinstall, close, relogin/out at the desktop, sign out sign in, and still never got it to reset so I could see the full lists of you have a subscription on the IBD app. Even then, I still don’t have access so I had to send a support ticket for them to reset. This problem bleeds over to all their products too with Leaderboard, SwingTrader, and MarketSmith. They are so concerned that they prevent a single user from using their products among an iPhone, iPad, and desktop with an occasional laptop access. But it is such a struggle to function among multiple devices that I have gotten pretty frustrated having IBD, Leaderboard, SwingTrader, and MarketSmith at the same time. And these are expensive products.

I must say the IBD team is awesome. I am rewriting the review with a higher appreciation for the new updates done by the Design, Product and the Developer team at IBD. A month or two ago, I had provided the feedback to include the search button (to conveniently lookup symbols from anytime in InvestorsBusinessDaily ), and ability to swipe thru the symbols. This morning I see the email - that they have being added to the 6.0. Later in the day I checked out today and delighted to see my productivity hit the roof. I really appreciate you guys exemplifying the customer empathy. You made my day!

I like InvestorsBusinessDaily but don’t understand why Touch ID isn’t available? InvestorsBusinessDaily logs me out automatically every few days and forces me to enter my email and password again. I care about security and like to use complex passwords managed by LastPass or Keychain. I can’t do that here so I had to dumb down my security just so I can access InvestorsBusinessDaily. Same goes for MarketSmith and SwingTrader. Almost every app supports Touch ID these days. Why can’t this one?

I’d also like to have easier access to the various sections of the main site. Especially the section that describes current market conditions.

This is by far the most valuable resource of all the products Ibd produces. The talent of the team is exceptional and watching the execution completely changes your perception of how to master the market. Since it’s inception I have never missed a program and after hours I replay the session because the information is so valuable .
The talent of the presenters is on point with no egos getting in the way. It also takes marketsmith and swing trading to a whole new level of personal performance. Well done IBD!!!

I earn the exceptional returns in the stock market I have achieved because I follow Investor’s Business Daily. The new upgrade to the online app is not only even more functional, but it’s beautifully designed. The tools provided allow me to follow my portfolio closely and, when I have a little extra time, to Identify additional stocks that have moved into the buy zone with substantial trading volume. Those are stocks I want to research immediately to consider adding to my portfolio.

I've been a subscriber to IBD paper, and daily graph products since mid 80's, over 35 years. I have gone along with the digital format the past few years, because you no longer offer daily delivery. I have been frustrated and disappointed with the digital version since it's inception. It is combersome to navigate. The most annoying thing, however, is the constant, distracting pop-ups to sell you something, that cannot be shut off. IBD used to be a stimulating, useful tool. Althoigh I read the weekly paper version, I find the digital version too frustrating to deal with. I now get my market info elsewhere.

InvestorsBusinessDaily has drastically improved from its first release, however I would still like to see some additions to InvestorsBusinessDaily and better navigability on stock lists. One example, it should allow you to swipe to the next stock on that list instead of having to go back to the list and click the ticker. The online version has this capability, it should also be on InvestorsBusinessDaily . Also more than 5 lists should be allowed and no limits on the # of names for a list.

I have been using IBD I'm its various formats for over 30 years and found it consistently delivers terrific value for my investing needs. I found that there is so much data and news offered that it is advisable to develop one's own system for ease of use. I have always been a relative strength advocate and constructed a program that tracks group rotation simply and selects stocks in a model compatible with the industry algorithm.

IBD has gone a good job in my opinion with up to date stock news and information via its iPhone and iPad app. Easy to stay up to date without a computer when traveling or catching up on the weekend on my couch. I especially like the news updates ordered by most recent and the stock lists.

Great app. The information is very organized and ties together news and charting seamlessly. It also contains IBDs stock lists with composite ratings and other information. Anyone using IBD knows how useful these are and will find it easy to navigate. My only complaint is that InvestorsBusinessDaily does not keep me logged in, after a few hours I have to sign in again which is a hassle. If this gets fixed I’ll gladly rate it 5 stars.