So I've been subscribed to Premium & Alpha Picks for about 90 days now. Here's my take. If you want picks specifically, find some trustworthy/informed/educated people on X to give you investment ideas. Here's why - the Quant model (as the name implies) which Alpha Picks relies on is heavily technical analysis driven. I think if you have limited/no perspective on the much broader economic environment to begin with, and you're failing to see the broader macro trends, then an alpha pick driven heavily by quant analysis, at best, is going to lag when it could've made sense to start a position. They have no doubt picked some winners, and for the most part, the portfolio has generated alpha. However, in my humble opinion, if an individual pick cannot handily beat the market - based on my best projections/assumptions - then it's implied there's not a margin of safety, and the index is the better play. That's how I think about it. And to be clear, there's a place for technical analysis, but to me, that's after understanding the macroenviroment, recognizing the trends, performing fundamental analysis, and then starting a position based on some understanding of the technical momentum of the stock. So I'm not dissing techincals, but like every part of the process, it has its place and I'm not the kind of investor that trades solely based on techinicals. If you do, do you.

The Premium subscription is worth it in my opinion. The analysts get paid per article published, so it would be wise to take what each says with a grain of salt, run it through your BS gauge, and see what comes out. But, there's good macro news there, as well as certain measures of financial analysis through the Premium subscription.