MarketSurge Reviews

The desktop tool is full of great information and research. MarketSurge however, does not “guarantee that the software will work 100% of the time.” Yes you read that correctly... this comes straight from their own employees telling me that notifications of alerts that I create will not always work. What a joke... calling and trying to get customer support reminds me of a company with a handful of people that made a cool product that don’t really know how to support it and/or care to invest in to make the experience better for the end user. They just want the incredibly expensive monthly fee from you to not guarantee their software to work.

This product will for sure ramp down and so away shortly... don’t waste your time with this company.

Previously, I found the MarketSmith app for the iPad to be excellent. The prior MarketSmith app enabled me to quickly access a number of stock reports such as weekly new highs, stocks having earnings already reported, stocks with upcoming earnings, and a host of other reports. With the recent app revision, these invaluable reports have been omitted.

Today I attempted to access the growth fund screener, and when I clicked on a specific fund in the smaller 2x2 format, it gave me the full screen and profile view. However, in the full page view, when I attempted to scroll to the next fund, MarketSurge directed me to stocks with up volume.

Unfortunately with a change of ownership, to me it seems that MarketSurge has taken a step backwards. Only time will tell if we have permanently lost these features, but hopefully the new ownership will be sensitive to investors and restore these omitted components of MarketSmith that made it a great program.

MarketSmith is a great product overall, but this review is for the iPad version released in July 2021. Much of the functionality to move between stocks in your list has been removed. When typing a ticker into the search box and pressing enter, this does nothing to change the chart to what you’re searching for (as was the behavior in the prior version). Rather, it adds it to the recent searches and you have to go back to select it out of the list. This is an unintuitive interface. Further, you can no longer bring up your list to display at the bottom (at all) with a double tap, and if you search for a stock in the list and bring up the chart, swiping left or right seems to randomly move you to another spot on the list rather than move the chart for the stock that is next in the sort order. Sure, the prior version for the iPad needed some work, but this latest release is a major, frustrating step backwards in usability.

I use MarketSurge every day for its data and have been using it for the last year. I really really wish they would fix two issues however that come in the way of usage:
1. When searching for a ticker and type a few characters and delete the previously entered character, instead of deleting one character it will delete two characters. So TQQQ to one back will give you TQ instead of TQQ. This is extremely annoying when you are in a pinch trying to access data.
2. When we view sales and earnings in the ‘Fundamentals’ tab many stocks always get their numbers underreported by 3 orders of magnitude! I think this is an issue with ‘millions’ vs ‘billions’ and it takes the value in billions and shows it under the units of millions. So a stock making 2billion in sales will show up as 2million. Again very annoying.

Please fix these!

It has its gives and takes. List layouts are fantastic! The opening page, not so much. It never shows the accurate index volume compared to the day before; either open the index or go to the this app web platform or IBD. The news feeds you have to slide down to populate or refresh. The charts do not show the 50-day average volume. Use the crosshairs and place them on the volume horizontal 50-day to get an approximate value.
The list layout is a magnificent concept. It gives you a snapshot, but scrolling a page or two down, many don’t populate.
I have closed it out and reopened it on multiple occasions. I have followed customer service's suggestion of uninstalling and installing on multiple occasions, which works for a little while, but then resorts to doing the same.
If you have an iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) with a keyboard, open settings/general/keyboard, turn off shortcuts and predictive text, and use the Safari platform. It's a lot less aggravating!

I’ve seen continual improvement to MarketSurge features and charts. It’s affordable for the individual investor and has all relevant technical and fundamental information all in one place. There’s nothing better out there for the individual. One key feature that I think would be easy to add are multiple flags. The current flag feature is excellent but I need maybe 3-4 different flags to easily add AND SUBTRACT a name from one watchlist to another in two clicks.

Overall I would rate MarketSurge 5 stars. I would rate IBD in general 5+ stars aside from letting Webster leave.

Considering how big Bill was on marking up charts, I am blown away that this newest release still does not allow the Apple Pencil to mark notes on the chart. Think of Bill chart markups in a modern version. Until tha can happen I will always consider MarketSurge lacking what would set it apart from everything else considering the monthly fee we pay.

I do not understand why we are not able to add any kind of moving average on minute charts. I swing trade based in IBD methods but I still like to look at minute charts and would like to set my own MA’s on them.

Speaking of moving averages. Let me change the awful colors being used. Why in the world I can’t change the color is mind blowing and I do not get it.

Last, where is dark mode. All my stock tools are dark mode but IBD’s. So I use the IBD tools the least because it just plain hurts my eyes to look at all the bright white background. Your other app is in dark mode so I know you can provide it.

All in all IBD tools are top of the line. They just lack giving the user the ability to modify some very basic things as noted above.

Great design and easy to navigate. Handy selectable IBD charts and a nice chart panel for such categories like “Near Pivot.”

But finicky to log-in. I finally was successful on my third try after repetitively typing my password. Hope it works automatically the next time.

I am going to try and use this IPad version as my main MarketSmith channel rather than go to my main frame server which is much more cumbersome.

Market smith is one of the best, if not THE best stock market apps. The search engine for stocks meeting almost any criteria you want is indispensable. How else do you efficiently sift through the entire stock market? It’s easy to use and has a wealth of information and tools for examining stock chart technical information as well as fundamental economic. Of course you can look up and view any etf and see market indices using MarketSurge’s beautiful interface. I’ve made money using this over the years and recommend it to all investors.

Speaking only to the new interface design…it’s obvious MarketSurge writer is not a user of the product. It now takes many steps to do simple tasks. For example. To add a ticker to a list the user must first reduce the snapshot screen. Similarly to switch between daily screen to weekly screen, again you must reduce the snapshot. The individual list function on MarketSurge is horrid to navigate I now use a laptop version instead of iPad to add/remove/edit lists as this interface is so pathetic. At $1500/yr users expect better back testing by you the developer we shouldn’t have to be your beta testers. Please get your MS Coaches to use this for a couple hours…I’m sure they can quickly point out all the deficiencies you’ve dropped on our plates and then perhaps the product can be fixed

The iPad version is terrible compared to the PC. Even if you use the browser version on the iPad (Safari or Firefox or...) every time you select something the keyboard pops up. I think I t is due to the focus on the ticker symbol field. Scrolling is impossible. They must apple users are all hippies and hate capitalism. :)

Maybe the new owners will invest a little money in MarketSurge or at least make the browser version work like the PC version which is where I am forced to use the service.

I would give the browser on the PC 5 stars.

I absolutely love MarketSmith. However, if I could make one change, it would be the ability to change the colors. I am colorblind and I cannot quickly tell the difference between the up days and down days. I have to hover over each day to see whether the day was up or down, especially when looking at the volume. Once they make this change, MarketSmith will be perfect!!

I never thought I could recognize chart patterns like a cup w/handle, double bottom, or consolidations but, with Market Smith, the patterns are outlined for you! The webinars and educational videos have transformed my investing philosophy from ‘long term’ to ‘position trading’ whilst protecting my capital. My only regret is that it took me so long to find Market Smith and like many, after I lost a lot of money whilst long term investing. It was a lesson well learned and by protecting my capital with stops, it won’t happen again easily, that’s for sure. I use MS on all my devices and am very happy with the ease at which I can research my stocks seamlessly between them. I may even go on my next vacation without my laptop and still be able to effectively research and trade. The subscription price is well worth it if you put into practice all the lessons available. Happy trading!

The latest app upgrade is nice. Nice apps on phone, tablet and desktop too. Everything about MarketSmith is good but it’s pricey. Even though they charge $150 for a month for a quality of fundamental data, MutualFund Data and proprietary data, there is no real-time market data, no real-time news or any good news service, charting options are basic. The UI technology has advanced so much but MarketSmith UI feels old and clumsy.

I’m doing a trial of the MarketSmith service and I’m blown away by how functional MarketSurge is. I’ve used a lot of investment related services and I’ve not seen a more feature-rich service. The iPad and iPhone apps are amazing in that they bring most the features of the web service to iOS and in some ways the user experience is even better. Have never seen apps with a more seamless adaptation.

IBD and MarketSmith are very useful services. But they keep Pimping Ads, hundreds of times a day. Luke No Tomorrow. They don’t care that you are signed up for a year Already. They don’t care if you are a long term customer. IBD can easily use cookies; but why miss out on harassing the customers?! IBD provides Advice through Secrets Of Success, which they themselves don’t follow. IBD and this app do Not respect their customers’ time.

SEE UPDATE BELOW
IPad app not loading any data. Used to work great, but now, each time I launch the iPad app from Safari, I just see the spinning swirly...and no stock data. App is up to date and membership is current. Neither restarting MarketSurge nor clearing the cache fixes the issue.
UPDATE: The new iPad App is fantastic. Easy to use and loads quickly. Thanks for the software updates!

I used to struggle and now I am a better investor. 100% recommend. Daily stock recommendations. Alerts on you phone and smart watch. Custom alerts. Chart line drawing tools with line cross alert available. Blue dot hot stocks highlighted. Find the stocks that are outperforming the market with proprietary ratings. See if mutual funds are buying or selling. See what funds own the equity.

After using MarketSmith via desktop for a while I just didn’t think they could pack all that greatness into a mobile phone form factor. But they really have done a great job. Very usable and quite intuitive. I find myself scrolling through my lists via phone and completely forgoing the desktop version much of the time.

The iPhone app needs a serious improvement. One day it works and the other day chart never loads. I tried uninstalling and installing which worked for once but not always, developer, please fix it. Giving hard time to me as I trade most of the time from phone so constantly need to look at the charts on MarketSmith.