Review: TIMfundamentals

First off, I would recommend buying this despite the flaws. They are minor and largely aesthetic in nature.

The first half of the DVD I found rather disappointing. Based on the cost of the DVD I would expect a professionally assembled DVD and that's not really how it appears. The menu's are unsophisticated and ugly. But who cares? They're practical and fancy menus don't earn you any money in trading. The problem is that the content of the first 2 hours is pretty useless. The video is of Tim coaching a private student and thus all of his commentary is aimed towards the student and not the viewer. Worse still, Tim is discussing all the websites he uses but you can't see his screen so it's difficult to follow along. These 2 hours seem like they would make a better podcast than anything since the video itself shows you nothing but a super awkward kid eating M&Ms. You can skip the whole first 2 hours and not lose anything.

Everything Tim describes in those first two hours is outlined in the TIMfundamentals booklet thing and it is way easier to follow along with since all the websites are listed and their usefulness is explained. The booklet itself is super useful for this reason since it walks you through all the tools Tim uses to compile his nightly watchlists.

The 2nd half of the DVD is where the real value lies and by itself, justifies the cost of the DVD. It consists of screen capture footage of TIM creating his watchlist and it turns out to be a great night for him to be filming because it is packed full of great stocks from a variety of different backgrounds. In this way, you see how Tim takes into account things like short interest, news, hype, and earnings. I've already heard how to deal with a lot of this stuff in Tim's video lessons but this DVD really makes it completely clear and thus I think it is still worth seeing for those people who have been studying Tim's lessons for a while.

You really have to think about the value of it in terms of what you get out of it. Which is a lot. But can you really blame me for being bothered by its sloppiness when it has such a high price tag?

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