these are all your opinion.
most of your complaints are not crucial to whether his newsletter is worth the price. They are his business decisions on how to run his newsletter. In fact, one of your biggest complaints is that he buys and sells before notifying subscribers.
Chen operates his newsletter under a niche where he reports activity in his own portfolio, like Keith Schaefer. He doesn't have a CFA after his name but is just reporting his own activity. What do you expect him to do??
Not buy or sell until ALL his subscribers agree to let him buy or sell?
He has a business to run and he has chosen to run it a certain way. Bottomline, you either make money from his picks or not. But a good portion of your comments are about how he runs his business.
And like he was when he posted here, Chen moves fast. That's a plus and a minus. It's hard to follow his picks and duplicate them because they can come quickly and sometimes out of left field.
I admit Chen is a friend and I am posting my opinions here because I think some of the "opinions" are off base.