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Pennsylvania
1 review
82 helpful votes
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Goodbye to MarketWatch
October 26, 2020

So all of the news articles are blocked on MW now...

How in their right mind do they think that all of those crappy, ill -informed news articles are actually worth the subscription price of $23.99 per month. What a blatant rip-off attempt... their "news" was OK for free but certainly has no monetary value at all... especially when there are many other legitimate sources elsewhere for free... or if they do charge, at least they are actual news agencies.

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
Wisconsin
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Paywall
November 26, 2020

I was a fan of Market Watch when I was able to freely read the articles (while generously giving the site my views, and putting up with ads) but I won't pay to read these articles. They are entertaining. In a world full of free entertainment. But they don't add value to my life, like, say... food? You people realize it's a pandemic and we haven't received any stimulus in over 6 months right? Sad.

Date of experience: November 26, 2020
Maine
5 reviews
32 helpful votes
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Terrible
October 30, 2020

I can't believe there is information out there saying this site is conservative. Definitely not the case. The authors there are terrible and they constantly write the same types of stories. They always have articles that contradict one another and it is just comical. The site just frustrates me every time I look at it. I'd say it's on par with Yahoo Finance..

Date of experience: October 30, 2020
Albania
6 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Their website is very informative with useful graphs and the latest news about the market.
However, when I tried to contact them about my queries; they haven't responded yet. I hope they can be improve this in the future.

Date of experience: August 14, 2020
New York
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Every single time i try to use it the site is down and wont even work. A $#*!ing baboon could've made a better game with his potato powered internet. When i set a limit to sell it should sell right but no instead it takes my money limit shoves it up my $#*! like it never was set.

Date of experience: February 11, 2020
Illinois
6 reviews
68 helpful votes
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When it comes to financial news, one article says te market is going up and then the very next minute it says the market is going down. I go to this site to get info on what I should not be doing. If they say buy I usually wait for the stock to pullback or avoid it. In terms of the market, they have been wrong but they are not as bad as the street, which is full of ads and its impossible to read an article without going nuts

Date of experience: March 14, 2018
Colorado
5 reviews
17 helpful votes
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I use MarketWatch every day that the markets are open. It has more information than I could ever use, but it is there if you need to find it. The lay out is pretty good as far as ease of navigating. It reads kind of like a news paper, with current news and market conditions always available. All in all, I like this site except for one feature. There is a row of trading site advertisements across the main page. When you move your cursor over them... and you don't even have to stop on them... those ads immediately drop down to capture your screen, which then moves what you are navigating down to look at, further down off your screen. Then when you move off the ads, they pull back up which then moves what you were looking for off your screen once again. I find this "in your face" advertising method very annoying and counter productive for the site user. If I want to see what any of those trading sites have to offer, all I need do is click on them. I don't need them hijacking my screen. Other than that, MarketWatch is a very good site.

Date of experience: October 25, 2013
RU
12 reviews
89 helpful votes
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Too many ads maybe not as much pressure to buy stuff as is the case with the fool, but their analysis is getting to be a bit too machine line. Worse yet on the same day you can find articles that are for and against a same company or the market in general. Its like they are trying to hedge their bets

Date of experience: May 22, 2018
Hawaii
3 reviews
86 helpful votes
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Awful place to find market news. They propagate a leftist narrative and censor anything that doesn't fit with in their "community guidelines." Basically you'll be censored if you have an opposing viewpoint. Moreover, I had used Marketwatch for years when all of a sudden they started to block viewing of their articles with a paywall. Will never use again nor recommend their website.

Date of experience: November 7, 2020
Arizona
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Agree with previous post- in general a good new source. The "elephant in the living room" is the extreme measure they take to prevent negative comments to articles posted at the Trading Deck. There are several contributors who have incredibly poor records in terms of providing investment advice (that have certainly emptied more than just a few brokerage accounts) that provide articles regularly. If a commenter posts a negative review, or simply points out the actual (very poor) guidance that the contributor has provided, they will either see their post deleted or their ability to log into the site discontinued.

Date of experience: May 16, 2014

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MarketWatch has a rating of 1.4 stars from 75 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with MarketWatch most frequently mention community guidelines and financial news. MarketWatch ranks 286th among Business News sites.

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