Quote from Casey30:
I used the service for about 4 months.
I also use tradethenews, flyonthewall, reuters, DJ news, a bloomberg terminal, and the news service holdbrothers offers. I probably spend close to 2500/month oneverything.
Briefing trader is overpriced. Plain and simple. They are late, and the time they actually attach to the related story is often not accurate. They often released the story a minute or two after what they say they released it at. It runs in your web browser and you have to continually clear the cache every few days otherwise briefing slows down by 5-10 seconds. How do I know this, some of the other services would bereading the briefing trader calls several seconds before it would update on my machine. Once I cleared the cache, I was ahead of them.
I also believe most of these news services completely front run the call they provide to there subscribers...Briefing likes to put out sometimes a half dozen takeover/LBO rumors a day. It gets reallytiring. It seems as though they come out after the stock spiked 5 minutes prior.
Their conference call coverage is decent though. That is about the only thing I felt was good.
I also felt their service sometimes slowed my pc when it updated then headlines. I am running a PC that is 1 year old and 2GB of ram. I am not running those aforementioned services on thesame PC.