As you note, they are very poor at timing and entry prices. In their gold/silver issue this summer they put out major buys on a lot of stocks just before they tanked. Over the years, too many of their recs simply did not pan out. (I have some suspicion there are conflict of interest issues lurking there somewhere.) And their exaggerated doom and gloom outlook is nothing new--in the 90s, Casey was predicting the US government would soon be seizing people's light bulb filaments. I've been relying mostly on Chen, who has far fewer misses than most, and the advice I find here from Klaus, Chris and others. JMO