Although the process of how we sift through 2,000 recommendations each month is complex, our mission is very simple:

"To achieve outstanding performance by identifying and following outstanding performers."

Here's a basic explanation on how we do it:

 Step One:  We create or obtain independently verified performance returns for a large variety of financial sources. After running the data through our statistical analysis, it's normalized to allow for easy comparisons between sources and timeframes.

 Step Two:  Our research staff tracks each and every recommendation made by the sources we cover. This allows us to continually update the "real" performance of each source.

 Step Three:  Each week we look at all of the stocks currently recommended by the sources we follow. We then sort the stocks based on which ones have the best sources "backing" them. Those stocks recommended by multiple top-performing sources rise to the top.

 Step Four:  We eliminate any stock that is not recommended by at least two of the sources we follow. This ensures a minimum degree of consensus, which has been proven to have great predictive power.

 Step Five:  We run our new lists and update our web tables each Friday with our most recent research and recommendations. And - we carefully track our own recommendations, and cover every aspect of our publication, so we can report back to you on our performance.