You can start with a 30 day risk free trial, giving you time to watch the success of the guru portfolios as they operate on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. 

After the 30 day free trial, it will cost you only R2394 for six months, R4188 for a year, or R7176 for two years. 

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"Guru Analysis" of individual stocks using 12 different Guru Strategies. 

You can see how more than 400 JSE traded stocks stack up against each of these methodologies, which were inspired by such great investors as Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Martin Zweig, Peter Lynch, Kenneth Fisher, and others. 

And you won't just get pass/fail assessments -- you'll be given a criterion-by-criterion explanation of why a stock does or doesn't pass each and every step of all 12 of these models. 

12 different model portfolios, each of which chooses stocks using one of the individual Guru Strategies 

(you get access to every one of those!). 

In the U.S., all 12 of the10-stock individual guru portfolios have substantially beaten the S&P 500 over the long term; in fact, 11 of the 12 were more than quadrupling the index as of the end of 2009! 

2 consensus-based portfolios that buy and sell stocks based on a blend of the individual Guru Strategies. 

Both of these portfolios averaged more than 13.5% annualized returns from their July 2003 inceptions through the end of 2009 in the U.S. -- a period in which the S&P 500 averaged gains of just 1.7% per year!

A powerful Guru Stock Screener that x-rays stocks traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange using each of my Guru Strategies. 

This Advanced Guru Screener also allows you to search for the highest-rated stocks by sector or industry group, and even lets you add your own fundamental criteria to create customized guru models (and save them for future use).

Access to the Validea Hot List newsletter. 

The bi-weekly newsletter provides an in-depth look at our flagship Hot List portfolio, which through 2009 in the U.S. has produced gains of more than 140% since its July 2003 inception -- more than 10 times the gains of the S&P 500.

Daily updates on which stocks have been upgraded or downgraded by the guru-inspired models. 

When a stock's fundamentals falter, you'll know right away.

Validea was started by author of “The Guru Investor”John Reese in the United States,

and is now available for the South African market.

Using Validea South Africa, users can see the performance of the highest-rated South African stocks based on the approaches of investing legends including: 

• Warren Buffett

• David Dreman

• Kenneth Fisher

• Benjamin Graham

• Peter Lynch

• The Motley Fool

• John Neff

• James P. O'Shaughnessy

• Joseph Piotroski 

• Martin Zweig

Why Follow Gurus?

There's an old saying: Don't reinvent the wheel. 

These gurus have strategies that have been tested and used by investors for years, even decades. 

If you think you are a smarter student of the stock market than Graham, Buffett, Lynch, Dreman, Fisher and the like, then, quite honestly, you don't need Validea. 

If, however, you think folks like these are pretty savvy and have ideas which are worthwhile, then you'd do well to listen to them, understanding, of course, that you'll be using our interpretation of their strategies.