What's the difference between Zen Investor and Zen Strategies?

Nate Tsang Updated by Nate Tsang

Zen Investor and Zen Strategies are two different subscriptions offered by WallStreetZen. Both leverage the market-beating Zen Ratings system, but their goals and structure are different. Here's the story:

Zen Investor

Zen Investor is a stock picking newsletter. As a member, you gain access to a hand-picked portfolio of up to 30 stocks at any given time, which are selected by 40+ year market veteran Steve Reitmeister, who uses a proprietary 4-step process using WallStreetZen tools. Members receive ongoing commentary, portfolio updates, and webinars from stock market veteran Steve Reitmeister, who hand-selects stocks through a proprietary 4-step process using WallStreetZen tools.

Here's what you get:

✅ Portfolio of up to 30 of the best stocks for the long haul, hand-selected by Steve Reitmeister, former editor-in-chief of Zacks.com with a 4-step process using WallStreetZen tools

✅ Monthly Commentary & Portfolio Updates

✅ Sell Alerts if the thesis changes

✅ Members Only Webinars

✅ 24/7 access to all the elements noted above

✅ Access to an archive of past trades and commentary.

Zen Strategies

Zen Strategies is WallStreetZen’s premium stock-picking service that turns hundreds of daily “Buy” signals from Zen Ratings into 11 focused, backtested portfolios. Each strategy surfaces the top 7 stocks every day (so you get 77 stocks total, 7 for each strategy) — spanning styles like AI, momentum, growth, value, income, and even shorting. As a Zen Strategies subscriber, you can quickly find high-performing picks tailored to any market condition without sifting through endless data.

Here's what you get:

✅ Backtested Quantitative Portfolios: Zen Strategies selects only the top 7 stocks per strategy, refined from over 115 factors, offering portfolios that span diverse themes — AI Factor, Momentum, Small Caps, Under $10, and more.

✅ Proven Performance: These strategies have delivered exceptional all‑time annual returns:

  • AI Factor: +48.01%
  • Momentum: +42.17%
  • Under $10: +35.02%

✅ Easy Entry: Designed to be implemented in as little as 10 minutes per month, complete with a Quick Start Guide and weekly insights from Editor‑in‑Chief Steve Reitmeister.

✅ Risk‑Protected Access: A 90-day money-back policy and a 100% performance guarantee. If it doesn’t help you beat the market, you get a full refund.

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