Verified Investing Reviews 

Gareth should discontinue his services, instead he's making more courses. I have now blown up my account following his trading advice. I have been in the swing trading service for over 2 years. There were ups and downs but this last year has been an absolute disaster. He totally ignores these massive losses he is holding on to (some for years) and he just opens a brand new account for 2026 with another million dollars. At first his new portfolio was doing great I think he was up 27%ish on the year. This is because he was going heavy long. Once markets bounced, however, he cannot help himself with the shorts. The account for this year is now down 42% (a 69% swing) and now his account is available to be seen by members so he cannot just ignore it like he did previously. Even if trades went against us I would have never imagined I would blow up my account doing simple swing trades but here we are. After observing how he does things for multiple years I feel like he is too preoccupied with giving out trades regularly to act like the service is actually doing something and worth the money. Hilariously this is at the expense of the trades actually working and people making (and keeping) money. If he had just took his profits and sat on it from last April tariff selloff and then this most recent March 2026 selloff he'd be way better off. 99% of the year markets are usually griding up so the only trades he gives out for the most part are shorts. They end up taking over the whole entire account and he just prays to break even on these things. Like WTH is the point of it. Listen to the other awful reviews, I read one recently about someone over 60 years old who lost half of their net worth following him. These stories are tragic and I have no idea how he can just get up there every day with a smile on his face knowing how wrong he has been. He had similar complaint on his previous "inthemoneystocks" company and pivoted to Verified Investing to get a new image. Lessons learned? Absolutely 0 apparently and he's in the same boat again and here come all the negative reviews. I was joking that I should do an inverse Gareth portfolio... cannot even imagine how much money I would be up, instead I lost my whole account. They will respond and probably try to get this taken down or say how I needed to take my own risks into account. Like seriously don't provide a service then, anyone can just short all the high flyer stocks. Last year he just ignored margin calls but now he can't because we all see it. The worst part was that he kept giving me hope all year. I probably would have bailed a while ago if I was just trading myself but you assume he has so much experience and keeps saying how markets will come in and these stocks he's holding short will come down. The day has yet to come and now it has gone on so long that people are wrecked. I remember last fall him saying phrases in his daily video like "you'll see the fastest correction you'll probably ever see in your trading career" and "I'm not scared of these markets." Like maybe you should be buddy. Or even if you aren't and want to waste your time and money trading like this with your millions of dollars, do it on your own time. The way he trades is just insane, I can't believe this is what he has come up with to showcase to people after all of these years trading. Its like a broken record with this guy he just cannot help himself then finds himself in the same position over and over again praying these stocks will come down so that he can break even, I've never seen something more dumb in my life. Even if you don't want to buy these stocks at these levels, why do you have short everything under the sun. What's even more crazy is the amount of risk he is willing to take for 10% gains. He takes profits on all positions at around 10% but he is willing to go 100's of % out of the money in order to get the 10% or even less and he'll just keep saying "it'll come in." I really can't believe it has come to this, he is really hurting people who assume he knows what he's talking about and even the people who just joined in 2026 where it seemingly looked like he was doing great, now he's pulling the same crap all over again and praying for some big correction. I am never trading like this ever again in my life and I am going to have to unlearn a lot of things that I had learned following him. Cannot tell you how disappointed I am. On top of it he takes no responsibility at all. He acts like he made so many mistakes when he was younger doing dumb things, I can't imagine how bad it must have been considering he's blowing up accounts even now after 30 years of experience, like what a joke. This was money my family had built up for years and years and we will have to start over completely now. All I wanted was to make some extra money on the side since I was laid off and now we will have to start over completely thanks to this fraud.

I’ve been using Verified Investing for a month and it has been an absolute disaster. Following Gareth’s semiconductor calls has cost me over $50,000 in losses. Nearly every major trade has gone the wrong way — the INTC short backfired, SMH backfired, Google backfired, Bloom Energy has been a complete train wreck, and SOXS is down massively.

At this point it feels like the entire strategy is just drawing lines on charts while completely missing what the market is actually doing. The calls have been consistently out of sync, and if you watch the latest updates on the app, even Gareth seems aware the performance has fallen apart.

I honestly can’t remember the last genuinely good call. The losses just keep piling up while subscribers are left holding the bag. Yes, trading involves risk, but this has genuinely been one of the worst financial decisions I’ve made.

I strongly advise people to think very carefully before paying for this service or blindly following these trades.

I have been with VI for over a year now and have never submitted a review. However, after the drawdowns people are experiencing recently, I felt the need to share some things I've learned along the way with this service.

1.) Do NOT take short positions with this service. They suffer massive drawdowns and continue to double down on losing positions. This includes longs like SOXS, QID, ZSL, etc as those are still shorts. I have been sitting in cash as Gareth's entire portfolio at the moment is in shorts, it's still frustrating that I am missing out on this rally.

2.) They do have some really good calls on true long positions. I have made money with this service, but only with long positions. If you look at their historical record, long positions typically don't suffer big losses or drawdowns and naturally recover when the market does.

3.) My biggest complaint is that they recently devalued their service by eliminating the dividend trader, ETF trader, and small cap catalyst. They continue to try to spin their reasoning, but at the end of the day call a spade a spade. You're paying the same price for fewer trade ideas and alerts.

I may not be with this service for much longer, but my hope is that VI takes these reviews seriously and overhauls their product to provide the same value as they once did before. They need to create a service that is truly a longer-term buy/hold, no shorting strategy for those of us who don't want to bet against the market.

I must warn you, this service can get you; in real trouble. I have been with Gareth for a year and a half. I am in the swing trader service. This service has 11 open positions. He does not reflect these in his performance. They are left for dead. For good reason, they are SNDK 10% of your portfolio short @ 233. He doesn't say a word. Today, I took a 300,000 loss since the stock is @ 1100 and looks like it's going to 2000. 5% of your portfolio in SMH short at 206. Today its 510 Then there's CAT 7% of portfolio short at 476 it's now 900. WDC 7% of portfolio short at 130 dollars it's 440. This is half of all my money in the world. I am 66 and this hurts. 1,000,000.00 of life savings loss. He never emails us or updates. Essentially this year was 100% loss of portfolio if you followed him. Thank God I put in lower numbers. But still a huge chunk of retirement funds gone forever. He is a good teacher, but he can handle way more risk than anyone else and he seems to have unlimited funds. When I called the office they said he has no updates on these positions. That I need to make my own risk assessments. How do you sell a service then take no accountability? He is brilliant and I still follow him, I just make my own trade decisions now.

You would be better off buying the Nasdaq or S&P 500 than following their trades. As of today, May 5, 2026, the Stocks and ETF portfolio has a loss of 14.89% year to date. The qqq is up 9.5% and the S&P up 5.7%.

Gareth posts very risky trades like shorting stocks right before earnings. His money management is poor. When the market goes against him, he doubles down. When you look at the closed trades, you see a very good winning record, but the open trades have a huge drawdown. They do this purposely to inflate their win rate, and they don't want you to see the losing trades, so they keep holding them. They can have open positions that are down 40 to 50%.

He recommended one stock, SOXS, that is currently down 52%. SOXS is meant to be day-traded because it has time decay, whereas it's being held in the account for over 3 weeks. He's been doubling down on this while it's been going against him. So in this portfolio, there is $1.015 million, and he put $472k into SOXS. Almost 47% of his portfolio is this one stock, which is crazy. This is a recipe for blowing up an account.

I am sure they will reply that their service is for educational purposes only, but most people thought it would help them make money. Then, I guess you should join only if you are looking for an education, and don't expect to make any money.

Do not pay them $150/month to underperform the Nasdaq and S&P 500 and potentially have 50%+ drawdowns on your account.

It's important for people to know that the top guys says he is 80% right but this is not true!! As badly as I wish it was, you will be disappointed. If you want to bet against the strongest economy in the world, you will love this service. They short USA everyday and continue to lose. They dollar cost average their day trades and get out and say they made a profit. I sat and followed every trade at my computer, everyday and still had small wins and big losses. I did APEX day trading and smart money stocks and the crypto service for 2 months. All I can think is that though he says charts drive him, its a skewed view that USA is doomed. And you have to have hundreds of thousands of capital to take their trades to even make say $50. But most trades go red as soon as they announce them. Makes you wonder.

I am a subscriber of smart money stocks and ETF since Feb end. It started nicely, but right now the situation with the portfolio is in deep red. I realized that Gareth is only a reversal trader, and the entries are very normal - sell at high and buy at low. well it was working nicely, until he decided to start shorting into this rally. ever since the rally started and markets touched ATH, all we have been doing in the portfolio is adding on to shorts. the biggest loser is SOXS (inverse on semi's)...its a big loss, and every time all he tells in his videos is that markets are way too extended, and drop can happen any time. but sorry, this is not what I expect from a professional trader like him with more than 2 decades of exp. I am very frustrated, and I take it as my responsibility to inform potential new investors that this kind of ordinary investing is what even we were doing before joining his service. so theres nothing special about him. real test is when markets are tough. and its not even tough right now, we are seeing ATH in markets, and he has been shorting in anticipation of a pullback, which is not coming so far. now there's no option, but to wait for a pullback while the markets rip to ATH every day. very disappointing timings tbh.

Had high hopes when trying out your swing trading service for a month.  Sure there were some winning trades but Gareth putting us in 3x leveraged short stocks has wiped out all the gains and led to losses.  He continues to add to short positions which may or may not be profitable in the end but the risk is way too high for most traders. To sit on losses like this and hope for a reversal is not a strategy i will follow.  Trends should be respected until they break.  If you look at the 2025 open positions there are over 200,000 in losses that would require a total market collapse to recover from.  

I have cancelled my subscription and will warn others to stay away.  You did not address my concerns in other emails and fed me some generic poor answers.  I will expect the same from this.  Im sure you will continue to pull in subscriptions based on your skewed performance data that truly does not represent the returns anyone will get.

I have been involved with Verified Investing for just two weeks. I followed the trades to a tee. During this time the general market has risen fast and furious , however , the so called “Master Trader “ has been mainly heavily short??? Am down $90,000 on one stock alone! (SOXS) Not Happy! But highly disappointed!!!

I’ve been with Verified Investing for over five years now and it’s changed my life and financial future. I’ve now transitioned to trading full-time and have the freedom to live and work from anywhere around the world. Thank you so much to Gareth and the team for your amazing work!

The service is excellent. You’re provided with multiple ways to receive alerts for trading activity, which keeps you fully engaged. Gareth trades frequently, and his win/loss ratio is one of the best I’ve seen. His pre- and post-market analysis is consistently spot-on, and his trades are exceptionally well-timed. The website is packed with valuable resources that make it easy to learn and master technical analysis on your own.

Great insight and experience that makes all the difference = well done!

Had a banner year in 2022-2023, but far less than satisfactory ever since.

I have learned how to use the charts which means making informed investments. Such great teaching!

This survey came within a few days of my joining so I've waited a few weeks to see how I like the trading room.

I like the fact that can send a message. the trading crew replies fairly quickly on the live screen out loud.

I wish I could read the questions coming in to understand what the conversation is. I like the chitter chatter in the group.

I gave it a 3 so far because there isn't enough different types of stocks being traded, the lunch break is very long.

I have learned how to short better. I thought joining the trading room, I would learn more about the whole trading environment. day trade, swing trade, longer term, dividend trading, ... the whole gamut. It appears that the goal of the APEX trading room is day trade only. Get in and out fast.

In another several weeks, I'm sure I will learn some more and give it more full 5 star rating.

Bought a newly launched MDI subscription which has been very disappointing not met expectations set by comparison to their other offerings so I asked to have the subscription monies allocated to other services - told no, cannot do, against policy which BTW does allow for subscription swaps, unfairness?, anyway zero customer care, very disappointed. Irony they keep the money it’s reallocated to another service they win the customer’s favour everyone’s happy? Very strange decision very disappointing outcome. BE VERY CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU COMMIT TO - BUYER BEWARE!

This service is not traditional swing trading, as it aims to capture very small profits rather than larger swings. You also need to be comfortable holding losing positions for weeks, months, or possibly even years. Each year, they start over with a fresh portfolio (which subscribers can't do), while positions with unrealized losses remain tied to older portfolios and are simply shown as open positions.

At the time of writing, the 2025 portfolio is sitting at an unrealized loss of approximately 50% on a $1 million portfolio. This can happen, and anyone considering this service should be comfortable with the possibility of very large drawdowns.

I’m not saying this is necessarily good or bad — this is simply how the service operates. To avoid drawdowns of this size, positions would need to be managed differently, such as closing them earlier, taking less risk, or using a different overall approach. But then, what's the point of this service at all.

It not fair to publicly show 60% realized profits, but hide all unrealized losses behind paywall.