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This is a directory of paying freelance writer's markets. You can browse the writer's markets by category below or search if you're looking for something specific. All markets included in this directory are paying markets. Payment details are included in summaries where possible.

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AARP The Magazine

AARP The Magazine claims to be the "world's largest circulation magazine." Catering to the over-50 crowd, the magazine accepts freelance submissions in the following categories: finance, health, food, travel, consumerism, general interest, and relationships. Rate of pay is not currently included in their published writers' guidelines.

Abilities is a Canadian cross-disability lifestyle magazine covering travel, health, careers, education, relationships, parent, social policy, and more. Honoraria range from $50-325 for professional submissions.

Abyss & Apex

Abyss & Apex is a magazine specializing in speculative fiction. They accept submissions quarterly -- normal reading periods are in February, May, August, and November. They accept flash fiction (up to 1250 words) and short stories (up to 10,000 words). The publication pays $.08 per word for up to 1000 words and an $80 flat payment for longer works. Payment is 60 days after publication. The magazine also accepts poetry.

ADDitude Magazine

This is a magazine addressing issues related to ADHD and learning disabilities. They accept submissions from journalists, mental health professionals, and those with first person stories to share. Payment is on publication. Articles are generally under 2000 words.

Adirondack Life

Adirondack Life is a regional magazine serving readers in areas surrounding the Adirondack Mountains. Departments run from 1000-1800 words and features are 1500-2500 words. The best way for new contributors to break into the publication is via departments.

Adoptive Families

Adoptive Families is a digital publication for adoptive families and potential adoptive parents. Topics cover adoption, infertility, parenting, education, special needs adoption, LGBTQ adoption, single parent adoption, and much more. Pay rates aren't disclosed, but they are a paying market.

Adventure Cycling

The Adventure Cycling blog accepts submissions of how-to articles, trip reports, bike overnights, and "inspiring, historical, or amusing stories" related to bicycle travel. Pay is $150-250 per article, with first-time writers paid on the lower end and repeat writers paid on the higher end.

AGNI accepts stories, essays, and poems that are previously-unpublished. There are no word limits "though space is at a premium and length sometimes affects decisions." They do not publish romance, horror, mystery, or science fiction but are open to fiction borrowing elements of them. They don't publish academic essays or purely journalistic pieces, and they pay $20 per printed page for accepted prose and $40 per page for accepted poetry, up to a maximum of $300. Submissions are considered for both print and online publication. Free submissions may be made via mail.

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The Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine is a paying market that accepts freelance proposals for both print and online articles. Note there are two separate submissions forms on the site -- one for magazine submissions and one for digital submissions. The included link is for the print magazine.

Alaska Parent

Alaska Parent magazine accepts freelance submissions covering parenting topics such as education, pregnancy and babies, holidays, nutrition, special needs, family travel, and more. They accept both original content and reprints. Pay is generally $40-200 for original articles and $25-40 for reprints. They accept feature stories of 800-1200 words, short features of 500-800 words, and tips articles of 150-600 words.

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One of our WM readers, Alice Knisley Matthias, wrote recently to ask if we could break down the best ways to use the Writer’s Market. I’m happy to answer that one today, as I highly recommend using the Writer’s Market to all the writers I mentor . It’s a great time to ask because the publication is changing and offering more options than ever to help writers.

For the uninitiated, the Writer’s Market has traditionally been a vast, annually published reference book of places that publish writers — from consumer magazines to trade publications to writing contests. It’s published by the folks who bring you Writer’s Digest magazine. It also lists book publishers, screenplay markets, greeting-card markets and much more. My current copy is more than 1,100 pages long. When I was starting out, I made much use of this resource to find entry-level markets, and since the downturn have been back to browsing it again to identify markets in the top pay rank. No matter where you’re at in your writing career, there’s useful information in this guide.

Here are my tips for getting the most from the Writer’s Market :

1. Get it with online support. In the fast-changing media world of the 21st Century, getting the Writer’s Market as a physical book only is a mistake. Getting the Market with online support offers many advantages in using the data in this enormous volume — and it’ll be the best $40 you ever spent on your writing career.

Or if you’re interested in a particular writing niche and buy one of Writer’s Digest’s niche guides, you can now also buy it bundled with access to WritersMarket.com. Or, if you’re a virtual type, you can now subscribe to WritersMarket.com without getting the book. I see they’re also offering a free 7-day trial, and you can also subscribe month-to-month now, and quit anytime. So there’s lots of new flexibility in how you can access their listings.

2. Use the search engine. The prime advantage of online support is that rather than leafing endlessly through physical pages, you can use the Market’s online search engines to slice and dice their data and cut right to what you’re looking for. You can use their advanced search to find only consumer magazines in only a certain region, at only a certain pay level. Saves a lot of squinting time poring over the book.

3. Browse the new listings. One of my favorite ways to use WritersMarket.com is to click on the link that says “X number of listings were updated in the past week.” Why? I have a theory about people who take the time to fill out the surveys Writer’s Market sends them asking for updates to their information: Editors fill them out when they are interested in finding new freelancers. When they’re not interested, they throw the update form in the trash. So the new listings are a great resource for finding new editors and publications that are good markets. At the speed editors are changing jobs these days, this is a great place to browse for inspiration on new places to query, and to make sure you’ve got current information about a market.

4. Build your market list. No more scribbling down contacts on a sheet of paper, or copy and pasting contact info into a Word doc — on WritersMarket.com you can create your own “My Markets” database and store information on any markets you find interesting. Also no more scratching your head trying to recall that market you saw three months ago that’s a fit for a great story idea you just got.

4. Get the free marketing newsletter. As a perk of membership you can get a free newsletter with tips on how to market your writing. Nice!

5. Check the news. Writer’s Market’s Debbie Ridpath Ohi assembles a great compendium of breaking news that affects writers — news of bankrupt publishers, new magazine launches, and editor changes. For instance, glancing at my newscatcher on my WritersMarket.com dashboard right now, I see that AOL has launched a food site with former Gourmet magazine editors, and that Editor & Publisher has gotten a new owner and will resume publication. These are great leads for places to send pitches or resumes that put you ahead of the pack, before these markets send out want ads.

6. Dig the community. WritersMarket.com has its own writers’ community, with subgroups for many genres. If you’re looking for a niche affinity group within writing, this could be a great place to connect.

Whatever way you get and use the Writer’s Market — the main thing is to use it! Put it on your marketing plan and make a date with yourself to check it regularly. It can be a powerful tool for increasing your writing earnings in 2010.

This post originally appeared on the WM Freelance Writer’s Connection.

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The brand has only gotten better with time, boasting upgraded comfortable insoles, awe-worthy colors, on-trend silhouettes that have remained true to the foundational ethos of the brand: making high-quality footwear for the people and the planet. Recently, I actually had the opportunity to test a few of Rothy's newest names on the roster, including the top-rated and travel-friendly Mary Jane Flats , The Lounge Loafers , and The Casual Clogs , and can attest to how stylish, versatile, and comfortable they are for traveling, everyday wear, and beyond. If I could, I would even go as far to replace every shoe in my collection with a pair of Rothy’s.

In addition to earning my stamp of approval, several pairs of Rothy’s have also landed on multiple Travel + Leisure editor-approved lists , and have been consistently spotted on celebrities like Meghan Markle . As such, I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite styles, and encourage you to experience the complete bliss that comes with a pair of Rothy’s yourself.

Rothy’s The Original Slip-On in Antique White

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I made the mistake of breaking in one too many pairs of Dr. Martens boots during my youth, and as a result, my ankles are permanently sensitive. I can’t wear any pair of shoes that rub on my ankles too much, and definitely can’t withstand a pair of shoes that cut into my heels. While I was trying to build my wardrobe with comfortable, supportive shoes, from the first wear, I was absolutely blown away by the comfort of Rothy's Original Slip-On Sneakers.

Back in college, I'd walk 3 to 4 miles in these daily and continue to sport them on trips across the world. I especially loved this pair for everyday wear because, even when they got spilled on or dirty (especially when I wore them to tailgates), I could throw them in the wash and they’d come out as good as new. These slip-on sneakers are travel-musts that’ll last you years and years, and thanks to its plushy cushioned insoles that give them a slipper-like feel, you’ll never want to take them off. 

Rothy’s The Flat in Black

Because of how much I loved my slip-ons, I decided to also snag a pair of the brand’s top-rated flats to wear on more formal occasions and to work. At the time, I had been left with blistered heels and unsupported, achy feet by the other pairs that I'd tried. But, that wasn't the case with Rothy's flats. If you’re looking for a go-to pair of easy-to-wear flats that are comfortable out of the box, there really isn’t a better pair out there. Between their lightweight knit design, sleek look, and machine washability, these flats are travel essentials in their own right and I believe everyone should have a pair in their wardrobe. 

Rothy’s The Square Mary Jane Flats in Lollipop Red

While I’ve been loving the brand’s classic styles for the better part of the last few years, Rothy’s has been consistently evolving and now has some of the most gorgeous shoes on the market. And consider me a Rothy's Mary Jane convert because not only have I never received more compliments on a pair of shoes in my entire life, but I have also never experienced such slipper-like comfort from any other pair.

In fact, I wore them all over New York City last weekend, clocking in at least 15,000 steps each day walking around Brooklyn and Manhattan while going out to eat, to the park, museums, and beyond. And after all of that walking, I'm happy to report that I didn’t experience one single blister or ache the entire time. If you struggle with finding shoes that are able to strike the perfect balance between comfort and style, then you need these Mary Jane Flats. 

Rothy’s The Lounge Loafer in Sparrow

I also had the opportunity to test these loafer-flat hybrids, and don’t think that I’ve worn a more comfortable loafer in my entire life. While all Rothy’s are made with foot-hugging knit insoles, these loafers have the brand’s signature extra supportive insoles for even more cushioning and arch support for all-day comfort. Thanks to their added heel support, I confidently wore these loafers out to eat and then out dancing into the wee hours of the night and felt nothing but complete plushy bliss. I can’t recommend these luxurious loafers enough, and if you’re looking for a do-it-all, wear-everywhere shoe, then I’d snag a pair or two of these comfy kicks. 

Rothy’s The Casual Clog in Toffee

It’s the year of the clog, a trend that Rothy’s best-selling (and almost-always-sold-out) pair kickstarted. The craze behind these shoes is partially the result of their recent internet fame, with TikTokers dubbing them the “most comfortable pair of shoes [they] have ever worn." Outside of social media, they're a hot commodity for their contoured footbeds, which actually deliver long-lasting comfort. In fact, I wasn’t planning on doing any heavy duty testing with these clogs, aside from wearing them to the corner store in the back, but when the subway shut down a few days ago, I decided to wear them on a 2-mile walk and was so surprised and relieved by how supportive and comfortable they were.

It's also worth noting that they're unique profiles and checkered prints make them surprisingly fashionable. These closed-toe shoes can be worn with anything, whether the dress code is casual or fancy. I’ve tried a few different pairs of clogs, and aside from enjoying them for beach days and taking out the trash, I hadn’t been able to find a pair that could truly be styled with my wardrobe because of their lack of heel support and drab look. But, leave it to Rothy's to fill that gap. It’s truly a Rothy’s world, and we’re all just living in it.

Oh, and as a treat, the brand has plenty of last-chance styles on major discount. Keep reading to score these on-sale Rothy’s shoes for up to 60 percent off ahead of your next trip.

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Guillermo A. Santos on his high school graduation day in 2021, with his father, Guillermo Jose Santos. The elder Santos died later the same year of a drug overdose. The Santos-Honkala Family hide caption

Guillermo A. Santos on his high school graduation day in 2021, with his father, Guillermo Jose Santos. The elder Santos died later the same year of a drug overdose.

In 2021, after years of societal neglect and denial around the issue, the number of overdose-related deaths in the U.S. reached more than 100,000, the largest it had ever been. One of those people was my father.

In December of that year, his life was finally taken from him by a lethal cocktail of heroin and fentanyl after a lifelong dependency. This is a story that many Americans, especially those in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington where he lived and I grew up, know well.

If you look up videos of the worst of the opioid epidemic, you will see Kensington's "zombies." People seem to fall asleep standing up, lingering under bridges and near subway stations. They stagger with needles still in their arms or hunch over in the pains of withdrawal, sometimes motionless in the middle of the street trying to keep standing. In those videos, you can see the house where I grew up.

It is a house in an intensely red-lined neighborhood. I went to school online and I studied music across town, in a more affluent part of Philadelphia. I had "friends" from my music classes who would never visit my house out of fear of all that lay within Kensington. Opting to stay away from the horrors of drug use associated with my domain, they instead occupied Rittenhouse Square in Center City, a local park that provided them ample coverage to smoke pot and cigarettes but didn't scare their parents or nannies as much.

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In my own youthful desperation for the approval of these peers, I once tried to host a small party for these people at my house while my mother was out of town. I went through a lot of trouble and everybody told me they were coming. I met people at the subway and walked them to my house. But out of all invited guests it was only the other minorities in the group that came. And it quickly became apparent that no one else would.

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The author as a baby held by his dad. Guillermo Jose Santos was 26 when his son was born. The Santos-Honkala Family hide caption

The author as a baby held by his dad. Guillermo Jose Santos was 26 when his son was born.

Over texts they claimed that they didn't know I lived in Kensington and had they known, they never would have promised in the first place. But of course, they knew. It's why they had never come before.

I was angry, and I let people know. I was told to stop complaining; it wasn't that big a deal. One person said he knew what it was like to be a minority: "I'm used to weird looks on the street. I dyed my hair green."

Soon after, on social media, we saw that the white kids I'd invited had their own party somewhere else. But they took selfies, tagged me, and claimed to be at my house having a great time.

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Flash forward a few years, and the peers who avoided the realities of my impoverished upbringing when we were younger are now spending their time in California, New York and even a few blocks from my former home in raver warehouses, dressing up like addicts. They post and pose on social media, wearing distressed vintage, "wife beater" t-shirts they buy on Depop and heavy eyeliner, all the better to look sullen yet cool. And it is not just my old verdant-haired peers. TikTok and Instagram Reels have endless streams of people adopting this look. Snapshots from these parties show them there standing motionless in the middle of the dance floor, hunched over their phones like a zombie in withdrawal, watching the like count grow on their own posts of them too pretending to be at someplace like my old home.

This is, of course, not new. The same impulse made previous generations long for television appearances and their own Warholian 15 minutes. It's a recurrent fashion trend for the affluent to wear the rags of the marginalized. When someone pale, thin, pretty and famous gets hooked, condemnation flips to adulation and imitation.

You can argue the aesthetic of "heroin chic" was born in the same city I was. Model Gia Carangi was born in Philadelphia and died there as well, of addiction just like my father. She is where a lot of the fixation on heroin's "attractive" qualities come from, an early supermodel whose fame rose even as drugs and disease whittled her away. An entire new generation was introduced to her from Angelina Jolie's eponymous portrayal of her in 1998 . She died in 1986 at 26. The same age my father was when I was born.

Growing up, I confronted the painful juxtaposition of the people outside my window, cast aside by society while on my television, gossip news glamorized addicted celebrities. Even as a child, it seemed clear to me that the only difference between my neighbors and their identically addicted counterparts in California was wealth and color.

Here, on the literal wrong side of the tracks of Philly's blue Market Frankford train line, there is no glamour to be found among those with addiction — no modeling gigs, no festivities, no solace or grace. And few resources to get out of the quagmire.

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The graduation photo adorns containers holding the ashes of Guillermo Jose Santos, one of more than 100,000 Americans who died of drug overdoses in 2021. That number was more than 111,000 in 2023. The Santos-Honkala Family hide caption

The graduation photo adorns containers holding the ashes of Guillermo Jose Santos, one of more than 100,000 Americans who died of drug overdoses in 2021. That number was more than 111,000 in 2023.

My whole life my father lived trapped — in a city that wouldn't trust his brown hands with a job, in a body that withered away from AIDS, and in a mind that only found brief reprieves from the substances that held him in thrall. I built my relationship with him during those times when he could abstain for a few weeks or months at a time. But they didn't last. I do not fault him for taking the same path so many of his peers did. I fault a system that gave them few other options. And a culture that again tries to idealize addiction.

My father's overdose wasn't chic, so why are people trying to look like him?

The worst parties I have been to have been full of what the Washington Post's Robin Givhan first called a "nihilistic version of beauty" back in 1996. Without poverty, addiction can afford to look cool. Crushing reality for some can be seen as an aesthetic choice for the privileged.

They can afford to not know how we live, just to pick the parts that feel like a nice enough departure from their day-to-day. They return to luxury.

To those people, superiority is as much a drug as any other they consume.

Guillermo A. Santos is a disabled Puerto Rican and Native American writer and poet from Philadelphia whose further work can be found at GuillermoASantos.com or @guillermoasantos on Instagram. He now lives in New York.

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If you want to make money in the stock market, change this channel..

If you wanted to design a financial channel that would cause investors to underperform the stock market, you’d create CNBC, NBC’s financial counterpart that runs on cable news and ostensibly tries to make viewers better investors. You’d make it sober and rational (well, there  is  Jim Cramer, but we’ll get to him later), no need to feature anyone foaming at the mouth about stocks that could triple in six months or worried Cassandras warning that it’s time to sell everything and burrow underground.

And yet, you’d ensure that viewers stay engaged by keeping them on edge, worried and confused about what might happen next. Anxiety, you’d discover, is your friend, viewer hypervigilance your bread and butter.

In other words, CNBC makes viewers nervous in a very specific way. Nervous that they’re about to lose money in a market downturn. Nervous that they might miss a hot trend or stock. Or uncertain that they’re in the right sectors. Then an “expert” comes on and says, “Hey, you’re in the wrong sectors—it’s time to leave tech for industrials, financials, and health care.” In its sober, rational way, the network creates a sense of urgency. Although its tone is never like that of an infomercial, sometimes the message is similar. Act  now .

The problem is, hypervigilance is probably the worst quality most investors can have. “Sit on your ass,” the late Charlie Munger advised investors, emphasizing that when it comes to investing, less is more. Feeling nervous leads to excessive trading. And “all the evidence shows that individual investors do worse the more they trade,” says Jay Ritter, professor of finance at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. “Buying and selling something based on what you see on CNBC is not likely to be a successful strategy.”

Studies also indicate that trying to move deftly from sector to sector is a mug’s game. Which means CNBC is in the strange business of telling viewers that they can do things—time the market, pick winning sectors—that can’t actually be done.

I’ve been watching CNBC more than I should because I’m writing a book on investing mistakes. (Watching financial TV merits its own chapter.) In October, the channel almost caused me to make a $5,000 blunder. And believe me, I should have known better than to get steamrollered into a bad trade. I was a market-beating money manager for 15 years. I’m not an idiot. Most days.

So, there I was, just doing research, not thinking about buying or selling anything, when the talking heads began discussing Netflix’s earnings, which were due the next day. I own Netflix, and everyone with an opinion on the stock on the 5 p.m. show  Fast Money  was bearish. One man said confidently (if you don’t sound confident, you don’t get on CNBC) that the earnings would probably send the stock diving another 10 percent. Netflix had been befouling the tape of late, falling 26.7 percent in the past three months and declining on 21 of the previous 29 trading days. I had already noticed this. My 106.8 percent profit was now a 51.7 percent profit. Oopsie.

And that’s when the loose trading talk got me squirming, desperate to act. Why not sell the stock  today  and buy it back after the earnings debacle that everyone could see coming? There’d be no tax consequences, since I held Netflix in a retirement account. I could  make  10 percent by avoiding that obvious 10 percent decline. Thanks to the out-of-character tizzy watching so much CNBC threw me in, I came close to making the trade. Normally, I never dart in and out of stocks, but hey, shame on me—if you don’t intend to trade, don’t watch a show called  Fast Money .

As it happened, Netflix surprised the Street—and CNBC and me—with terrific earnings and excellent guidance. The stock rose 16.1 percent the next day. It’s up 56.8 percent in the four months since the pre-earnings close.

Part of CNBC’s problem is that it actually does try mightily to help investors. It seems to mean well, even as it sabotages investor performance. Its questioners are smart and well prepared. But its determination to protect the little guy sometimes gives it an unarticulated agenda. Consider Nvidia, the sixth-largest company in the world by market capitalization and the hottest large-cap stock of 2023 (up 239 percent). I’m anything but a disinterested observer here. I have 5 percent of my portfolio in Nvidia vs. its market weight of 3.3 percent.

Maybe they’re scarred by the breathless way the network treated internet stocks before the tech crash of 2000, but CNBC anchors are not encouraging viewers to buy Nvidia. Quite the contrary. While they often chide guests for not owning Apple—or enough Apple—they never blame anyone for shunning Nvidia. Few guests say they own the stock, and those that do tend to have small positions. Granted, resident guru Cramer says he’s wildly bullish on Nvidia, but a quick look at the CNBC Investing Club portfolio, which he runs, tells a different story. Nvidia accounts for 2.9 percent of Cramer’s portfolio, less than its 3.3 percent market weight. So, mathematically, he’s slightly  bearish  on Nvidia, although he is bullish compared to … almost everyone else who appears on CNBC. (On Jan. 2, he reduced his holdings in Nvidia and Apple, as well as some other large tech stocks.)

On Aug. 23, though,  Fast Money  contributor Bonawyn Eison broke ranks and recommended that viewers buy Nvidia at $500. But he cautioned that if the stock fell to $450, people should sell. Five days later, the stock breached $450. A 10 percent loss in a week is obviously not good, and two months later, Nvidia hit $392.30. At least the sell part of Eison’s trade was looking smart. Except that, as of the close on Feb. 12, Nvidia is trading at $722.48, so what is someone to do who bought at $500 and sold at $450 or $392.30?

This is what I mean when I say that one of CNBC’s fatal flaws is that the channel encourages trading, and most people, both professionals and amateurs, stink at trading. I’m awful at it. Still, I do know that when you own a highflier like Nvidia—an undeniably great company—bailing out after a 10 percent decline doesn’t make sense. Highfliers are volatile: 10 percent moves are frequent and usually meaningless. Why isn’t that the kind of context CNBC is offering its viewers?

CNBC’s broadcast day starts calmly. There’s economic and political news, plus a trading recap—Asia, Europe, commodities. Guests opine about events—the trajectory of the economy, war in the Middle East, the Fed’s next move—that they may or may not be right about, and these events may or may not move markets. The leisurely pace encourages multitasking.

Then—watch out—the parade of CEOs uber-bullish on their companies no matter what travesties have befallen them begins. (Think: “It was a really good quarter, and we expect to be able to find our missing CFO any day now.”) Sometimes they remind me of Dustin Hoffman’s producer character in  Wag the Dog , who, in the face of disaster, was fond of saying, “This is NOTHING!” A yammering bevy (or is it portfolio?) of money managers and market strategists follows. In the past five months, almost none have been bullish, with a few notable exceptions (Tom Lee of Fundstrat, Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research, and emeritus professor Jeremy Siegel of Wharton), but the market has risen anyway.

Soon it’s time for CNBC’s unfortunate non-Heisenbergian “ uncertainty principle .” Anchors and other interviewers often ask guests what to do about the uncertainty in the market . Uncertainty is a favorite word on CNBC. Alas, the people using the word in their questions seem not to recognize that uncertainty is a constant and that simply introducing the word has consequences. If there were certainty, investing would be easy, and it’s not. (Munger, who was Warren Buffett’s partner for 45 years and a great investor in his own right, estimated that only 5 percent of professionals beat the market over their careers. I’m sure many were certain they’d do better.)

In response to the questions about uncertainty, the pros either say they are holding a larger-than-average amount of cash or suggest that it’s fine if viewers, feeling uncertain, hold a 10 percent or 20 percent cash position in their portfolios. This is dangerous hogwash. Since 1926, cash has returned 3.3 percent a year, woefully less than the 10.2 percent delivered annually by the S&P 500 (with dividends reinvested). Which means that the CNBC guests who advocate holding 10 percent to 20 percent in cash are flattering and deluding viewers. The message: You, the smart viewer, will invest this cash at lower prices in a month, six months, or a year. Studies show that this seldom happens . Nervous investors who raise cash usually reinvest the money at  higher  prices. Only higher prices make them feel “comfortable” enough to reenter the market—or so uncomfortable with their decision to raise cash that they are now desperate to deploy it.

Then, at 9 a.m., Cramer joins the crew for an hour. (Disclosure: He and I were colleagues at the American Lawyer in the 1970s.) Cramer is living proof that education (Harvard, Harvard Law), intelligence, and experience aren’t sufficient to generate market-beating performance. Despite his history as a successful hedge fund manager, his picks at TheStreet.com and the CNBC Investing Club have underperformed the market by about 1.7 percent a year for 23 years, not even counting the $400 fee he charges. This calculation is based on Cramer’s performance from 2000 to 2017 and 2019 to 2023. I asked CNBC media relations for data on his 2018 performance but received no response. (Cramer’s performance pickle reminds me of screenwriter William Goldman’s famous assessment of Hollywood: “Nobody knows anything.” The Wall Street corollary would seem to be that Cramer and other professional investors know a lot, but what they know isn’t useful.)

Many people hate Cramer, mostly because of his bombast and over-the-top showmanship. My younger daughter thinks of him as “the man who yells.” What bothers me about his entertaining schtick is that he suggests he can turn viewers into excellent, market-beating investors when he can’t beat the market himself. Saying this, after a 23-year performance drought, is grotesque.

In 2023 his CNBC Investing Club selections trailed the market by 1.7 percent. His acolytes might have done even worse if they followed his  Mad Money  recommendation of keeping 10 percent of their portfolio in gold. (Gold rose 11 percent in 2023, far less than the S&P 500’s return of 26.2 percent.) Through Feb. 12, he’s beating the market by 0.4 percent.

But results be damned. Cramer and CNBC relentlessly hawk his investing club, which costs that $400 fee a year.

So, trying to see what was going on here, I paid the $400. I was shocked at what I found.

Cramer repeatedly sings the praises of Nvidia and Apple, saying they are the two stocks you should own and never trade. He’s been so adamant about them that I assumed he was overweight both stocks.

But he’s not just underweight Nvidia—he’s underweight Apple too. His portfolio has 4.9 percent of its money in Apple, less than Apple’s 5.5 percent weighting in the U.S. market. Kudos to him for recommending the two stocks, but if you followed his portfolio religiously, you would have lost ground to the market every time Apple and Nvidia rose. (Cramer also holds 14.1 percent in cash, which is high.)

One of Cramer’s defects, then, is that he doesn’t put enough money into what he considers his best ideas. It’s a common investor failing—and one that I share. I bought Alphabet (parent of Google) a month after it went public in August 2004 and have owned it ever since. The stock has risen from $3 to $147.53 since I bought in, but I have nothing to brag about. It hasn’t helped my performance all that much because I kept pruning my position.

Turns out, I was inadvertently following Cramer’s  Mad Money  rule No. 1: “Pigs get slaughtered.” That’s old Wall Street wisdom, and it’s terrible advice. Oh, sure, if you bought a highly speculative stock or a piece of raw sewage meme pump-and-dump like Tupperware at $1 and saw it zoom to $5 (it’s now $1.49), you should sell some or all of your position. But when you own a great company, the rules are different. You need to press your advantage. That doesn’t mean you allow Nvidia to account for 40 percent of your portfolio—that would be arrogant folly—but you do follow the genuine Wall Street wisdom that says “Let your winners run.” I didn’t sit on my ass enough. I think my failing is the result of excessive risk aversion and the fear of doing something stupid. I don’t want to be that rare person who had a gargantuan gain in Alphabet and then lost money. Then again, all great stocks suffer huge declines at some point—Amazon fell over 90 percent from late 1999 to 2001—and I didn’t want to be caught in that kind of vortex. Silly me. I don’t intend to make the same mistake with Nvidia.

Or, to quote George Soros: “It’s not whether you’re right or wrong, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.”

To be fair to Cramer, maybe he’s not actually looking to maximize profits. He says one of his goals is to help his followers stay in the game, to make sure they avoid severe losses. He knows that booking profits makes them feel good, so he trims winners frequently, even if it results in more haphazard outcomes ultimately. And if noninvestors become investors because of Cramer—then follow him—he is performing a service, even if those investors trail the market by 1.7 percent a year. At least they’re  in the market . Stocks rise 10 percent a year, on average, and are the best investment the average person can make, so being in the market is essential if you can afford it. Besides, thousands of financial planners and money managers charge 1 percent a year for delivering results worse than Cramer’s.

The CNBC paradox is that giving investors more information can hurt them because—hello, hypervigilance—it makes them think they need to act all the time to make money, when the opposite is actually true. Going on automatic pilot is the best course for most investors, but simply turning on CNBC can make an investor think he needs to override the controls. The one thing CNBC anchors can never say is that there is a way to avoid losing the investing game. Virtually all investors would do better if they owned nothing but index funds and never traded them, except—perhaps—to lower their risk profile as they aged.

You don’t need to know the investing record of CNBC experts to be suspicious of what passes for on-air wisdom. Four stock pickers, including Dewardric McNeal of Longview Global LLC and Barbara Doran of BD8 Capital Partners, recently mispronounced Nvidia as “Nuh-vidia” rather than “En-vidia.” This suggests they’ve never listened to a single company conference call or, heck, simply paid attention when other pros were discussing the stock. And yet they felt competent to discuss it on national television?

There’s a cautionary tale there somewhere, but then almost all of CNBC is a cautionary tale. Why would a network keep telling viewers to do things that don’t work and never tell them to do the one thing that does work?

Because that’s its job. Nervous, restless viewers, not stock outcomes, pay the bills. It’s fine if the viewers’ portfolios don’t do all that well, as long as viewers worry enough to tune in. There’s no incentive to protect them from themselves.

So, instead, you protect them from Nvidia. And tell them they shouldn’t feel bad about missing the enormous Nvidia rally because, well, now they’re likely too late. Chasing it here would make them greedy and, quite possibly, foolish. And remember, losing money in Nvidia is a terrible thing.

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Venessa wong, columnist charlotte cowles says there’s one effective move that could have stopped the scammers who were targeting her, a new york magazine columnist recently revealed how scammers tricked her into handing over $50,000 in cash. she’s far from alone. last year, american consumers reported losing more than $10 billion to fraud..

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A financial-advice writer is drawing intense criticism and sympathy after revealing that she was scammed into putting $50,000 in cash in a shoebox and giving it to a stranger. But her story is far from unusual, and falling for such scams is increasingly common. 

Charlotte Cowles, a columnist for New York magazine, was tricked into believing she was a victim of identity theft and under investigation for federal crimes, and was pressured to withdraw cash for living expenses before her bank accounts would allegedly be frozen. Over the course of several hours on the phone, she was transferred by a fraudster claiming to be from Amazon AMZN, +0.23% to one claiming to be from the Federal Trade Commission to one claiming to be from the Central Intelligence Agency. 

She recounted her story in an article that highlighted how even a well-informed, “maddeningly rational” person can get caught up in the panic stirred up by skilled con artists.

After X users roasted Cowles and questioned her authority as a personal-finance writer, she deleted her X account. But experts say that rather than criticizing the victim, the public could take away some important lessons from her story. 

“For every person who’s called me an idiot in public, there’s been another one emailing me in private to say that a similar thing happened to them,” Cowles said in an email to MarketWatch. 

Last year, American consumers reported losing more than $10 billion to fraud, according to the latest numbers from the FTC, up 14% from the previous year. A significant share, $2.7 billion, was lost to impostor scams like the one Cowles got mixed up in.

There were moments during her experience in which she felt something was wrong, and questioned the criminals on the other end of the phone. “How do I know you’re not just spoofing this?” she asked about the alleged FTC number the criminal was using. Yet she still complied with their requests.

MarketWatch spoke to privacy and identity-theft experts about what to do if you find yourself caught up in a transaction that you feel, somewhere in your gut, might not be legitimate.  

1. Get off the phone

It’s essential to interrupt the surge of adrenaline that leads people to make decisions based on impulse rather than reason. Get off the phone — politely, if that helps — and tell the person you’ll call them back after you’ve thought about it.

Cowles’s con started off with someone claiming to be from Amazon checking on some suspicious activity on her account. She could have hung up the phone at many points, and wrote in hindsight, “Were my tendencies toward people-pleasing, rule following, and conflict aversion far worse than I’d ever thought?”

It can feel unnatural to stop engaging with people who are trying very hard to captivate your attention, said James Lee, the chief operating officer of the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center . One way to get off the phone, he advised: “Say, ‘OK, you’re calling from Amazon, I’m going to contact you . Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention.’ That’s the end of the conversation. There’s no reason to go further until you have verified that this is a real circumstance.”

The same is true for anyone claiming to be a relative or friend needing money urgently, as there are programs that can clone voices and spoof phone numbers now, too. Tell them you’ll call back. 

Take your time after that. Breathe. Calm down and don’t rush.

2. Verify the identity of the caller

Next, tell someone what’s going on. Don’t handle this alone.

“Scammers often try to isolate you by asking you not to speak with other people, and such a request is a major red flag,” said Michael Steinbach, global head of financial crimes and fraud prevention at Citi.

“In retrospect, there are a million things I wish I had done differently,” Cowles told MarketWatch. “I think the most effective thing anyone can do if they’re caught in the midst of a bad situation is tell someone they trust what’s going on. More than anything, that’s what I wish I’d done. But these scammers were very effective in making me feel like I couldn’t tell anyone. I’ve since learned that this technique is known as ‘blocking the exits.’”

If a friend or relative seems to be calling you for money, hang up and call them back from your phone at the number you usually use for them. Or find the real customer-service phone number of the entity claiming to contact you. Ask if they have initiated contact with you for whatever the stated issue was. 

Amazon said in a statement that customers should be wary of false urgency, and “if you’re ever unsure, it’s safest to stop engaging with potential scammers and contact us directly through the Amazon app or website.” “Do not call numbers sent over text or email or found in online search results,” the company said. “Remember Amazon will not ask you to download or install any software to connect with customer service nor will we request payment for any customer service support.”

By initiating the call to a real and trustworthy phone number, you are seizing back control of the situation. Cowles, on the other hand, was transferred from the fake Amazon agent to someone claiming to be an FTC investigator, who transferred her to someone claiming to be a CIA investigator. 

These are not agencies most people have any interaction with, so it can be hard to discern whether the interaction is suspicious. But there’s one important thing to know: These investigators will not call you out of the blue, and Amazon will not transfer you to a government agency. 

After the story was published, FTC chair Lina Kahn said in post on X, “A reminder that nobody from @FTC will ever give you a badge number, ask you to confirm your Social Security number, ask how much money you have in your bank account, transfer you to a CIA agent, or send you texts out of the blue.”

The FTC also offered guidance on when the agency would and wouldn’t reach out to consumers, saying, “The FTC won’t demand money, threaten you, or promise you a prize.”

While tax scammers often say they are calling from the Internal Revenue Service, the agency specifically says on its website it “doesn’t initiate contact with taxpayers by email, text messages or social media channels to request personal or financial information.” In general, the IRS initiates contact “through regular mail delivered by the United States Postal Service.”

“If I’m really under investigation, someone’s going to come to my house and show a badge and have paperwork. They’re not doing this over the phone and texting you,” said Mark Kapczynski, a privacy expert at Onerep , a company that removes clients’ private information from the web. If a scammer is threatening action against you, “Wait for them to show up at your doorstep. They just don’t operate that way.”

And while it may seem obvious, a government agency or law enforcement will not pressure you to transfer money to them in a hurry.  

3. Maintain zero trust

If you’re somehow still on the phone, maintain zero trust: Hang up and verify with a legitimate and known entity at every stage. Scammers exert pressure and make you feel like you have to act immediately. You don’t.

Every step along the way “is another opportunity for you to take back control, and say, ‘I don’t know anything about that. I’m going to have to get back to you,’” Lee said. Especially if these are entities you don’t do business with, or people you’ve never spoken to before, requests for money are a huge red flag. Stop there.

Say, “I’m going to go find an independent person at my bank, at some other institution that I trust, and I’m going to have them tell me this is how this works,” Lee said. The person on the other end of the phone may sound angry, but remember, their anger is not a real threat.

Cowles wrote about what she learned from this experience and shared her own tips in a separate post .

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