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InvestingPro ProPicks vs. the competition: AI-powered investing beats human bias

Published 17/11/2023, 16:12
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Investing in the stock market can be overwhelming - but ProPicks slices through the chaos and stress, standing apart from other stock picker systems by serving up top-notch AI-powered stock selection along with a robust swath of strategies in order to fit each investor’s individual preferences and comfort level.

Institutions and billionaire investors worldwide are already well ahead of the game when it comes to AI, extensively using, customizing and developing it to bulk up their returns and minimize losses. And ProPicks, unlike Seeking Alpha’s Alpha Picks or Motley Fool Stock Advisor, presciently uses this bleeding-edge tech to ensure the playing field is truly leveled for the average investor.

ProPicks’ advanced AI models completely remove human emotion from stock picking while also, crucially, dynamically adapting to rapidly changing market conditions.

Our state-of-the-art AI-powered product offers users six different strategies, each tailored to meet each investor's different risk tolerance/return expectations and all provenly effective by their mighty compounded 10-year performance, as seen in the image below.InvestingPro ProPicksSource: InvestingPro ProPicks

InvestingPro's ProPicks Vs. Alpha Picks

Our models are in stark contrast to Alpha Picks, which is an outgrowth of Seeking Alpha’s old Quant Ratings system and still rests entirely on backtesting, simulated trading, and human intervention. Alpha Picks’ actual picks, after a traditional automated system processes stocks, are ultimately chosen by a small team rifling through equities filtered in large part for past performance.

Moreover, Seeking Alpha’s quantitative assessments also give a heavy weight to share-price momentum, so many of the vaunted “Strong Buys” from which their picks are selected carry letter grades of D and C for valuation - a basic and critically important metric for every investor and Wall Street analyst.

Perhaps that’s why Seeking Alpha’s “Strong Buy” portfolio has taken investors on a roller coaster ride of volatility since 2018 and especially since 2020, a year when these stocks took an especially steep dive vs. the S&P 500’s comparatively milder dip.

The upshot is that, with Alpha Picks, investors are at the mercy of human bias and older systems, without the advantage of AI to seal the decision as to which companies are truly worthy of investing in.

ProPicks, on the other hand, are chosen by our AI models, which make their selections by harnessing the mammoth processing power of our neural network, or artificial brain, along with nimble flagging of hard-to-see market signals and rapid integration of the freshest premium-sourced data. The resulting picks stand poised to outrun the S&P 500, with a stalwartly long-term focus that sidesteps short-lived trends and hype stocks.

At Seeking Alpha, getting two Alpha Picks per month costs $99 annually by itself, and is not included with the basic $239 Seeking Alpha Premium subscription - whereas ProPicks are part of the vast ecosystem of services and tools you get when you sign up for the $8.49/month InvestingPro service, and offer a deluge of new picks each month across the six different strategies.

InvestingPro's ProPicks Vs. Stock Advisor

Motley Fool Stock Advisor, at $199 a year, also offers two new picks per month and doesn’t make any attempt to take human emotion out of the equation for the sake of its subscribers. Human-driven approaches like these make the picks vulnerable to fear, greed, overconfidence, and other psychological factors that can and do lead to faulty decision-making.

Beyond that, different human analysts can arrive at entirely different conclusions given the exact same set of data, leading to confusion, inefficiencies and inconsistency, especially in team-based investment approaches like that offered by Motley Fool. With InvestingPro’s ProPicks, decisions are data-based and anchored by sophisticated algorithms rather than human sentiment, producing far more rational and consistent investment decisions.

That’s not to mention the world of possibilities offered by AI’s ability to “see” trends, inputs and complex patterns that might be challenging or impossible for humans to discern, and to rapidly adjust to quickly shifting market conditions, dwarfing the very limited human capacity to quickly process vast amounts of data.

The ProPicks stock picking system not only draws on a plethora of the best, most reliable data to deftly pick up on key buy (and sell) signals, but has also been developed and trained via Google Vertex AI to arrive at the final decision as to what stocks truly constitute the cream of the crop out of tens of thousands of companies.

Bottom Line

In short, ProPicks offers a surfeit of advantages that easily outshine Seeking Alpha’s service, where stocks are chosen by a tiny team after being processed through an old-fashioned automated system, and Motley Fool is also left in the dust.

With ProPicks, every subscriber reaps the elite benefits of rigorous AI modeling and analysis in its stock picking, just like the big guns do - along with a host of strategies and new ProPicks each month to cater to a variety of investing personalities.

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