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Pennsylvania
1 review
82 helpful votes
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Goodbye to MarketWatch
October 26, 2020

So all of the news articles are blocked on MW now...

How in their right mind do they think that all of those crappy, ill -informed news articles are actually worth the subscription price of $23.99 per month. What a blatant rip-off attempt... their "news" was OK for free but certainly has no monetary value at all... especially when there are many other legitimate sources elsewhere for free... or if they do charge, at least they are actual news agencies.

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
Maine
5 reviews
32 helpful votes
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Terrible
October 30, 2020

I can't believe there is information out there saying this site is conservative. Definitely not the case. The authors there are terrible and they constantly write the same types of stories. They always have articles that contradict one another and it is just comical. The site just frustrates me every time I look at it. I'd say it's on par with Yahoo Finance..

Date of experience: October 30, 2020
Hawaii
3 reviews
86 helpful votes
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Awful place to find market news. They propagate a leftist narrative and censor anything that doesn't fit with in their "community guidelines." Basically you'll be censored if you have an opposing viewpoint. Moreover, I had used Marketwatch for years when all of a sudden they started to block viewing of their articles with a paywall. Will never use again nor recommend their website.

Date of experience: November 7, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
36 helpful votes
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I have been trading for 6 years. The truth about this group is that they are directly involved with Hedge fund manipulation. The are liable. They are criminal. I will never take advice from people that manipulate the game.

Take it for what it's worth. I am a retail trader. I grind everyday. These people care more about the guys making $20M per week then they will ever care about giving you advice!

Date of experience: May 18, 2021
New York
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Every single time i try to use it the site is down and wont even work. A $#*!ing baboon could've made a better game with his potato powered internet. When i set a limit to sell it should sell right but no instead it takes my money limit shoves it up my $#*! like it never was set.

Date of experience: February 11, 2020
Wisconsin
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Paywall
November 26, 2020

I was a fan of Market Watch when I was able to freely read the articles (while generously giving the site my views, and putting up with ads) but I won't pay to read these articles. They are entertaining. In a world full of free entertainment. But they don't add value to my life, like, say... food? You people realize it's a pandemic and we haven't received any stimulus in over 6 months right? Sad.

Date of experience: November 26, 2020
RU
12 reviews
89 helpful votes
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Too many ads maybe not as much pressure to buy stuff as is the case with the fool, but their analysis is getting to be a bit too machine line. Worse yet on the same day you can find articles that are for and against a same company or the market in general. Its like they are trying to hedge their bets

Date of experience: May 22, 2018
Albania
6 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Their website is very informative with useful graphs and the latest news about the market.
However, when I tried to contact them about my queries; they haven't responded yet. I hope they can be improve this in the future.

Date of experience: August 14, 2020
Arizona
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Agree with previous post- in general a good new source. The "elephant in the living room" is the extreme measure they take to prevent negative comments to articles posted at the Trading Deck. There are several contributors who have incredibly poor records in terms of providing investment advice (that have certainly emptied more than just a few brokerage accounts) that provide articles regularly. If a commenter posts a negative review, or simply points out the actual (very poor) guidance that the contributor has provided, they will either see their post deleted or their ability to log into the site discontinued.

Date of experience: May 16, 2014
Oregon
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I use it for the summary
February 20, 2021

Honestly, I could use other sites, but the summary of Crypto/Stocks is good enough to get a reading of the day.

The articles are abysmal. May as well call it Commie Watch. Any article about a relationship they take the side of the woman and tell her to divorce/dump the guy. Any article about covid claims it's the virus ruining the economy; not the Fed artificially shutting things down. They pretty much think that open borders, the destruction of the nuclear family, and the general degeneracy is great.

They promote bubbles, they contradict themselves constantly (even the same day) with one article telling you everything is great with X and the other telling you it isn't. Many "articles" are a paragraph long and tell you almost nothing. I think they turned off all comments now that people who disagree with them are commenting.

But. They have an ok Gui for their summary.

Date of experience: February 20, 2021
North Carolina
1 review
23 helpful votes
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I like the financial information (sparse as it is among the political hit pieces) and its easy access format, but the website seems to just be one big liberal/leftist propaganda machine whose sole purpose is to tear down our president. I'm not crazy about our president either (wish he would let someone else do the talking and tweeting), but the constant negative and destructive barrage of this website is just depressing.

Date of experience: July 5, 2020
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Since they can travel to the future and back I am sure they already saw this review and still did what they did anyway!
They are so good that they can tell when a stock will plummet 30 minutes before it does! Amazing!

Date of experience: March 11, 2021
Mississippi
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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I use Marketwatch to get basic financial news. I've noticed over the last years they have more and more liberal articles that are heavily skewed towards socialist policies. And now they want us to pay/subscribe. What a joke! Today was the last straw as a fairly benign comment I posted regarding the fallacy of an article was rejected. I've reread the post and they clearly just don't like that I disagree with the academic elitist author of the article. One of the regulars, Rex Nuttig is one of the main editors and columnist and is dyed in the wool Marxist. So I'm gone for good Marketwatch.

Date of experience: January 4, 2021
Colorado
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Misinformation
April 9, 2020

Misinformation to steer the 'public' away from what the investors are really doing.
They point out "it's not at the bottom yet." or "prepare for massive up-swing" to push the general public stock market players to a direction that plays into the hands of the big money investors.

Date of experience: April 9, 2020
Illinois
6 reviews
68 helpful votes
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When it comes to financial news, one article says te market is going up and then the very next minute it says the market is going down. I go to this site to get info on what I should not be doing. If they say buy I usually wait for the stock to pullback or avoid it. In terms of the market, they have been wrong but they are not as bad as the street, which is full of ads and its impossible to read an article without going nuts

Date of experience: March 14, 2018
Texas
3 reviews
46 helpful votes
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Can no longer read articles that you can read for free on CNBC and 1000 other sites without joining their site for a ridiculous $24 a month. Can no longer make comments on articles you can no longer read. They should have stuck to ads and clickbait. Adios Marketwatch!

Date of experience: November 5, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Now a pay site- Buh bye
October 29, 2020

Marketwatch recently changed to Pay- only, You can click on a headline, but it won't let you read the article. That's a shame, I have used the site for years for stock quotes. It has some interesting articles but a lot of click bait that is BS.
The site leans Democrat, has become more anti-Trump recently. Would I pay for the site? Hell no.

Date of experience: October 29, 2020
Washington
1 review
27 helpful votes
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Marketwatch is your 24/7, 365 doom and gloom generator brought to you by all the rich guys banking on your emotional sell offs. It's purpose is just to scare you, make you think you need them to look out for you, and to attempt to manipulate the market because volatility and sell offs make the rich richer. I say "attempt" because it is easy to see through what they are trying to do.

Date of experience: July 28, 2020
Missouri
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Worthless.
August 30, 2020

Comments the moderators do not agree with, regardless of accuracy, are not published. Definitely agenda driven. Anyone with a perspective that doesn't agree with their agenda, is deleted or blocked from being published. Everything cannot be all good, all the time, and the "best" time to invest.

Date of experience: August 30, 2020
GB
1 review
19 helpful votes
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False news
May 10, 2021

Market watch is given out false news regarding the Israeli and Palestinians in Jerusalem. All other news articles are saying the same thing that Israelis are attacking the Muslim in the mosque while they were worshiping in the month of Ramadan but MarketWatch news was saying Palestinians are attacking (what with stones) no one can see guns in the Palestinian hands. Please if you can't get your story right and trying to spread lies then don't write no news. We don't want to hear your rubbish.

Date of experience: May 10, 2021

Overview

MarketWatch's reputation has significantly declined, with customers expressing frustration over perceived censorship and biased reporting that favors specific political narratives. Many users feel that their comments are unfairly rejected, undermining the platform's claim of being an open forum for discussion. Additionally, complaints regarding subscription issues, poor customer service, and a lack of useful content have emerged, leading to dissatisfaction among former supporters. While some users still appreciate the site's financial information, the overall sentiment leans heavily towards disappointment, indicating a need for improvement in both content quality and customer engagement practices.

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