Part 2: I now spent $13,000/year on Substack newsletters so you don't have to. Longer time horizons, more authors, better methodology.

What happened

A few weeks ago I posted about tracking 23 paid Substack newsletters to see which ones actually make money. That post got 7.4k upvotes and a lot of great feedback here. The three biggest criticisms: ”Mixing apples and oranges." Some of those authors are macro/ETF traders, not stock pickers. Ranking them alongside individual stock pickers isn't fair. "30 and 60 days is too short." Many of these authors have 6–12 month theses. Need longer time horizons. "23 isn't enough." There are more newsletter

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Part 2: I now spent $13,000/year on Substack newsletters so you don't have to. Longer time horizons, more authors, better methodology.
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