The The B.I.O. Forum by Bill Spetrino sales page, captured 2026-09-23

The B.I.O. Forum by Bill Spetrino review

A members-only investing forum where you can ask a dividend investor about your own picks

Category Business / InvestingBilling repeats until cancelled

By the RJ Editorial Team. Sales page checked 2026-09-23. Last updated 2026-10-04.

Is it worth it?

You've got a brokerage account and you're running it yourself, and most days that feels fine until it doesn't. You read something bullish, you read something bearish, and there's nobody to ask whether the thing you're about to do is daft. That's the gap this sits in. The B.I.O. Forum is a paid discussion board run by Bill Spetrino, who writes the Dividend Machine newsletter. You get into a members-only forum where people talk stock picks, options and commodity strategies, and Spetrino says he's in there daily answering questions about specific names. It is not a picks service. Nobody emails you a trade. You have to turn up and ask. The page leans hard on credentials, including a claim of 19 winning positions out of 19, which is his own figure with nothing attached to check it. Read that as advertising. The references to Newsmax and Moneynews also date the copy by years, so it's fair to ask what the forum's activity actually looks like now before you commit. Worth it if you already invest, hold your own opinions, and want somewhere sane to test them against people who aren't strangers on a free message board. Not worth it if you want someone to tell you what to buy, or if you know you'd lurk and never post, because a forum you don't post in is just expensive reading.

Pros

Direct access to the person running it, rather than a one way newsletter
Ongoing discussion, so you can follow a thesis over time
Cheap next to managed advice or a pricey annual subscription
You set the agenda by asking about positions you actually hold

Cons

The page never states the real billing amount or whether it's monthly or yearly, only a per day figure
Performance claims come from the seller with nothing to verify them
Value depends entirely on how busy the forum is now, which you can't see before paying
No refund terms, cancellation process or member numbers mentioned anywhere