Cramer’s Mad Money stock picks short-worthy?

Stock picks featured on Mad Money don’t live up to the host’s hype. That’s the theme of this Cramer-bashing article.

According the this article, they’re just following the pack:OTHER CAREFUL, HONEST EXAMINATIONS of the CNBC star showed the same underperformance — including several independent studies by finance researchers, and a 2007 review by Barron’s that found the only way to reliably profit from Cramer’s stock picks was to short them (see “Shorting Cramer,” Aug. 20, 2007).

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One Response to “Cramer’s Mad Money stock picks short-worthy?”

  1. Ray Lindsley says:
    March 23, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    I think it’s pretty interesting that he was telling people not to sell Bear Stearns right up until it went toes up.