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GorillaTrades Unmasked
Stockpicking site GorillaTrades and its anonymous founder have garnered some buzz with splashy ads, but the record fails to live up to the hype
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Thousands of people are investing their hard-earned money following the advice of a gorilla: not an actual primate, of course, but the mascot for a secretive but heavily advertised stockpicking service called GorillaTrades. The service charges members $600 a year for stock picks based on a proprietary blend of technical-market signals.
But does the gorilla deliver for investors? A analysis of the service's picks found they performed far worse than the stock market as a whole.