Many traders nowadays are tempted to entrust their savings to a trading robot or fund manager that promise outstanding performance with very little risk and little or no work at all on their part. If you are one of those traders, this article is meant to give you a few tips to help you decide whether such an investment is worth taking.
Our Golden Rule of Investing: Never Trust Third-party Reviews!
In the information age, making your due diligence to decide where to invest your money is made significantly harder by affiliate programs on the Web, which make it particularly tempting for webmasters to blatantly promote an automated trading tool or fund manager in exchange for a commission on the referrals brought by their site. 
As you might have already realized on your own, not all the webmasters of investment-related sites have the knowledge (or even the intention) to provide their readers with the best information available to them. Instead, a number of them will simply try by any means necessary,
including writing impartial reviews to lure their visitors into joining the third-party investment service that guarantees them the best commissions, irregardless of the actual fund's or tool's performance.
The best way to obtain a honest evaluation of a financial service would be to avoid web reviews altogether, unless they are from a trusted source. Instead, a good practice would be to ask questions directly to other clients, either in person or on an Internet forum, keeping an extra vigilant eye in the latter case – e.g. making sure the people who reply to your post are not just there to promote financial services, and trying different sources around the web before taking a final decision.
