Zacks Investment Research

The quality and easy availability with Zacks Investment research is absolutely necessary for quick and accurate investing in the current marketplace. I feel and have demonstrated that I have all the skills and knowledge to manage my own portfolio - but I don't want it to be a full-time job, and I don't want to cut myself short on lack of insight. I subscribed to Zacks Investment Research in the middle of March 2020 - and started a new self managed account with new/fresh money (six digits worth) and have made well into 60% returns on that money during the year.
I could of actually made more on the investments had I not chosen such a "conservative" rule-set to trade by - but I'm more than happy with the results!

The Portfolio Additions and Deletions feature in Zacks Investor Collection suggests which Zacks picks are timely, or no longer expected to go up. Zacks Investor Collection is a good source of information and idea generation."

Best is your Zack Rating. Buying good rating is key. Do you have a service that allow me to "input" a stock name, and you can provide a Zack rating? Or in some cases as "not rated" is fine.
What can improve? Your service is very well classified into many categories and cater for many types of investors/traders... but to a common mortal like us is too many, we don't know how to choose because we dont really know what we want, and we changes all the time haha... eg myself looking for some kind of shorter term swing trade (not day trading) so I/we can be more focus and Not Overwhelmed and frustrated... yet can see some good results in a couple of weeks or 1-2 mths?

I had no knowledge, I had no patience, I wanted money quickly.
And this is not so.
I need the knowledge that Zacks gives me, the plan and direction that the reports and the information in them give me.

"I loved Zacks Ultimate, but right now in my life, I didn't have time to look into all the information it provided. Most weeks I only have time to look into the two or three stock picks from Zacks Confidential - rarely do I have time to read the entire commentary (I love it when I do have time). I've gotten some good performing stocks from Zacks Confidential such as PARR, which is up +50% in just 4 months, CVGL which doubled in a year, and ON doubled in a year, which is a pick I think I got from Zack's Ultimate (before I canceled it). The stock picks that didn't do so well have only lost a small amount, so that I haven't had any real losers from Zack's. I don't blindly accept all Zack stock picks - I look into them, follow price charts, and get in at my price, but the guidance that Zack's has provided me has been very helpful.

The research is great HOWEVER they make it extremely difficult to cancel a subscription. I signed up for a free trial and ended up paying $250 a year because they don't send notification/confirmation emails so I didn't even know I was paying for it. They don't have an option to cancel your subscription on their website and getting though to someone when you call is immensely difficult. Their hours are Monday-Friday 9 am to 6 pm EST yet I'm calling at 1:18 pm EST on a regular old Tuesday and I am going straight to a voicemail that gives me their business hours and forces me to leave a VM for them to call back. I would never subscribe again nor would I recommend anyone to do so. They only care about getting your money. I honestly feel ripped off and helpless because they have my card information and are just going to autocharge it and there's nothing I can do. Well my only recourse will be to call my credit card company and report it but this is just not right!

My experience with Zacks has been an incredible ride and very profitable. I have purchased many stock picking services over my 40 years of investing and now I have one Zacks. My advice is go through all your available Zacks services and find who suits your investing style before jumping in. My "go to" portfolios are Stocks under 10$ (my fav), Technology, Blockchain and Top 10. I now count on these gentlemen to do my due diligence which took one to two hours per day after working all day. The text alerts are amazing - I hear the ping read the text and immediately put my buy in, I trust their judgement that much, then I'll read the recap later that night. I recently made 33K on one of Brian Bolans picks SAVA (sorry Brian I sold and took the cash LOL).
I have made my lifetime subscription costs many times over in a very short time and now and will be introducing my son to the service.

There is one stock and one ETF I have been paying a lot of attention to the last 3 years (FANG and SPXL).
Now with the coronavirus, these two stocks became very clearly insane opportunities. There was no way that it wasn't completely oversold and would go back to much much higher values quickly.
So when I saw Zacks recommend staying away from these (giving them the worst grades possible), they scared me but I decided to suck it up and believe my knowledge about these.
So what did not listening to Zacks get me? Well SPXL gave me +50% in 2 months, FANG an insane +160% in 2 months.
I don't know who called them experts, but they lied. It's not all, every single stock I've owned I realized they've always been wrong. But the example I'm showing is so over the top they lost all credibility to me.
At this point I'm using Zacks to do the exact opposite of what they recommend, and honestly, my portfolio is doing better than it would have in my wildest dreams.
Don't believe a word they say.

I started my experience with Zacks using the service Income Investor. This is a service for people who dislike too much activity in the stock market. It worked quite well for me and I liked the service conduct. The next step was to join all the Zacks services starting to discover which works better for me. This is how I became familiar with the Top 10 stocks service. I saw a wonderful performance in 2019 and in the beginning of 2020 I waited a little bit but entered the service in mid March after the big collapse. I invested 10,000$ per stock and doubled my money by the end of 2020, though it was a very unusual year. Still the stocks picking was amazing.
I use as well the Zacks Wizard now with much success however using this tool is far from automatic, at least for me. It took me quite a while after some painful losses to recognize how this tool really works best. After some long learning curve I have some screens that make good profits for me. In summary, I appreciate Zacks tools and services very much, but everyone has to adopt them carefully and slowly.