Not that I should really even bother responding to this, but there is a finance team for a reason.
Compare this situation.
Non-Insider – Sees one person (this article or any other site with only 1-2 guys) say Spellskite is $2. Doesn't buy in. Loses potential profit.
Insider – Has an entire team of writers, many of whom suggested picking up Spellskite. For example, I wrote on May 12 (before the price jump) – "I’ve been toting Spellskite since it was spoiled. The card is nuts, in more than just Splinter Twin combo. Get in on these ASAP." There is a reason why the team concept works – With enough good financial minds together, you don't miss out on something like this that can slip past one individual.
I haven't seen one Insider complain about lost profit on Spellskites (the reaction has been quite the opposite).

The price is right"

lulz i really wanna spend $$ to sign up now…

Why don't you move some of the old price prediction articles out of insider and into free. They're no longer of any exclusive value to insiders, and can help show what you guys provide. Just keep the timeless trading secrets articles wrapped up ;).

"No one is 100% correct all the time, but our finance writers as a whole are consistently profitable."

Yes, and your writers frequently revisit predictions and grade their accuracy, so we can see how things went, why they went, and if they didn't, what went wrong.

No lies… he did. Pretty sure you also told us when to dump them too.

Great financial review, by the way. It works; it's a great read and convinces me to re-subscribe. Thanks!

You'll find that even if you buy into a card and it spikes 20% you'll have not always made much profit, and if you're low on funds to start its hard to make enough to justify your time spent. On the other hand, the tips on here also apply to trading (and some of the writers focus exclusively on trading techniques) which is the best place to start when you're just getting into the game. For instance, while you may not have had $100 to invest into Mystics at the time, you could easily have picked them up in trading and be sitting on a lot of cash now.

This level of passive analysis isn't anything that anyone familiar with the metagame, and 20 minutes on TCGplayer couldn't accomplish. If this is what I can expect from an insider article, I suppose I'll stay free.

However, this card buy alert program intrigues me. What exactly is it? Some kind of bot that watches ebay and store price fluctuations and notifies me when a spike first starts? A program like that might be worth the investment.

How are the e-mail alerts for cards working? Where can I find the information about that?
Thx

Here's a very specific prediction I made in the Insider forum, paired with the BlackLotusProject graph for the same card.
http://i.imgur.com/t37ou.png

I'm not a Finance writer, but I do hop in the Insider finance forums quite a bit.

The entire point of Insider is finance, rather than strategy. That's why all the strategy articles are on the Free side of this site and the vast majority of finance articles are on Insider.

If you'd bought Candelabra of Tawnos when they sent out the Insider e-mail alert for the card, you'd have made something like $125. Each.

And yes, I picked up 20 Mystics when they were $2.00-2.50, and Tezz I held until he jumped up, so that's the information that interests me.

How about Stoneforge Mystic and Tezzeret? Just from my own work, I called Mystic when it was $6 and Tezz when it was $20. These type of calls are commonly made on here, far in advance of when the rest of the MTG world catches on. More recently, I called picking up Inferno Titan on Feb. 28, and it has more than doubled in price since then.
I get all my prices from BlackLotusProject.com, which tracks Ebay and MOTL prices in graphical form, and most of the writers here do the same.

Where are prices pulled from?
Can you give me some specific examples of predictions that worked out well, perhaps ones that nobody else saw coming?
I am a bit concerned by some of the calls… several of the ones in this article are like "OMG WOW," but with a $4-6 price tag. Is that just the writer's style, or an unwillingness to go out on a limb?

The email notifications easily make me enough to cover the cost. Just getting the tip direct to my inbox a few hours before it hits mainstream lets me snag up a few ebay auctions before the masses catch wind.

So really… if you subscribe you'll be competing with me. You know what, this site's a waste of money. Stick with CFB. It's all a scam!

As for the predictions, they are spot-on. I'll be picking up all the Metamorphs I can in the first week, because as soon as it finds its way into a Top 8 deck (and it will), the price is going to spike. After Mystic leaves Standard, this card becomes any additional Swords you need to guarantee you don't get too far behind in the Swordfighting, not to mention the Titans it can copy.