For investors who want someone else's research behind a buy list, not an options trade. All seven services below have now been through our full review process and rubric.
| Rank | Service | Price | Format | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Option Strategies InsiderChris Douthit | $99/mo | Options + stocks, stock portfolio | 9.4Editor's Pick |
| 02 | Mindful TraderEric Ferguson | $47/mo | Stocks + options + futures alerts | 8.1 |
| 03 | Motley Fool Stock AdvisorD. & T. Gardner | $99/yr¹ | Stock picks, 2/month | 7.7 |
| 04 | Morningstar InvestorMorningstar, Inc. | $199/yr¹ | Ratings + research, not picks | 7.5 |
| 05 | Zacks PremiumZacks Investment Research | $249/yr | Daily quant rank | 7.2 |
| 06 | Stansberry's Investment AdvisoryWhitney Tilson | $199/yr | Monthly newsletter, ~1 pick | 6.2 |
| 07 | Seeking Alpha Alpha PicksQuant system | $499/yr | 2 picks/month | 5.6 |
Best known for its weekly options alerts, but the Ultra membership also includes a full stock portfolio and daily updates, so it competes here too, not just in options.
A flat-fee alert feed that covers stocks alongside options and futures, not just one asset class. Its headline backtest is self-published and unverified.
Two long-term stock picks a month from a 20+ year track record. Not built for anyone trading options, and its headline "+951% since 2002" figure is an average-of-all-picks methodology, not a real portfolio return.
Rates rather than recommends: Star Rating, Economic Moat, and Fair Value Estimate across 12,000+ stocks and funds, backed by around 120 in-house analysts plus a quant model for everything they don't personally cover. A research tool to evaluate ideas yourself, not a curated buy list.
A quant-driven service built around the Zacks Rank, a 1-to-5 grade on roughly 4,400 stocks recalculated daily off earnings-estimate revisions. Broad and cheap per idea, but BBB complaints describe refund and guarantee terms not always honored in full.
Now edited by Whitney Tilson, with detailed monthly writeups behind each new pick. Worth knowing plainly: founder Frank Porter Stansberry was found liable for securities fraud in a 2003 SEC case, a judgment upheld on appeal, even though he no longer edits this product.
Two quant-model-driven stock picks a month from Seeking Alpha, with a real if short (since mid-2022) track record. No free trial and no refund window at all if it isn't for you, and BBB records show a pattern of unauthorized renewal-charge complaints.
Prices and facts verified September 2026. Scores for all seven reviewed services come from our published methodology. This isn't personalized investment advice.