Bravos Research: a warning before you trust them with your money

I'm writing this post in good faith. I read the rules and I don't think I'm breaking them. I only want to help people who google this company. I'm not even going to write any direct criticism: just explain where it can be found and how it was buried. Bravos Research is a youtube channel and a paid subscription service that supposedly gives you tips on great trades. Here's a wise platitude: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. If you could do this consistently, you wouldn't need to solicit subscriptions. Up until March, their trustpilot page was overwhelmingly negative and critical. This changed in a very suspicious way. In order to find out the real picture, dig [a little deeper](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bravosresearch.com/transparency). See how there's a massive surge of positive reviews in April? How up until then, the reviews were very few and exclusively negative? How this surge died out as quickly as it started, back to the baseline in May and June? If you search "trustpilot" up there on the reddit search bar, you'll find discussions of ways to buy reviews. I'm not saying that's what happened, but the data should give you pause. \*Something\* happened and it looks very suspicious. Trustpilot allows solicited reviews, but strictly without being selective about who is encouraged to do so, without incentives and biasing positive reviews in any way whatsoever. There is no disclosure of such approved solicitation and it's hard to imagine how this positive spike could happen in a legit way. I reported this to trustpilot and they investigated, removing only a few suspicious reviews. Probably because the timing and frequency of positive reviews is not sufficient proof of foul play. At least they cannot remove negative comments from trustpilot (like they easily can, and do, on youtube), only bury them. Make sure you familiarize yourself with the substance of these negative reviews (and don't get fooled by their relative scarcity). Seems like Bravos Research doesn't want you to.