S&A Short Report

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Weekly trading service that recommends aggressive short term moves, often with options.

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Posted by pseudo on Dec 6, 2011 @ 4:04 pm

I’m a new subscriber to the s and a short report. I really feel for the guy who lost 35k. When I subscribed I asked how many people subscribe to the S & A Report? I didn’t get a direct answer but when I politely addressed the question I was told nomore than a couple of thousand. Hm. This morning, 12/6/11, I received an email that it was time to buy HL Jan 2012 $6 calls at about $.50. I was told not to chase the postion. What I observed: One of the Arminian Brothers who is co owner of MonsterOptions publicly said on Squack on the Street CNBC, there was a huge call positon of 50,000 contracts of the same position (recommended by the s & a short report). He said this about 2-3 hours into the trading session. What I observed at open, was an open interest of 7027 and vol of 42k. At noon it was 59k. At about 1 pm it was 62,749 contracts. At 10:03 EST it was 64,337. At 11:23 EST it was a vol. of 70,675. I saw the price go up from $.65 at open to around $.82 for a 67% gain. When I called the company I couldn’t get through for hours. Their toll free was busy and there non toll put me on hold with a recording and never picked up. I finally hung up after about 20 minutes of waiting. Several hours after Stansberry and Assoc was opened I received an email from them that there phone number was down and I was given a new number to call with a different area code other than 410. It was 443. I asked another rep in customer service how many subscribers. He didn’t know but said those numbers are tallied at the end of the year. Reading what I have on this sight has caused me to be very suspicious and disappointed with these folks. Any suggestions how I can find out how many subscrbers the s & a short report has or how many folks are part of the Flex (that costs 5k for life I was told)?

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Posted by Ferndok on Dec 5, 2011 @ 7:51 pm

I lost $35,000 trading the S & A Short Report. So much for the “Best Performing Secret Key” Jeff talks about. If he was retired from actually using this technique, he wouldn’t be selling subscriptions to his newsletter. Another con, and I fell for it…to the tune of $35,000.

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Posted by Grifon Joel on Mar 11, 2011 @ 7:08 am

The S&A Short Report is consistently making a loss! The newsletter is hyped up beyond reason and only the winning trades are hyped up, with NO REGARDS to the string of losing trades! I bought the S&A Short report based on the newsletter touting that it is the ‘BEST PERFORMING’ product from S&A, and also based on the long list of recommendations they have for the trader, jeff clark. However, upon my subscription activation late last year, I looked back at the track records and found that there were a LOT more losing trades than winning ones! As usual, before putting money into ANYTHING, I backtracked about 1 year worth of records, detailing down ALL the recommendations, email updates, and every update on its buy/sell prices. In the end, the results showed that after a year, the account BARELY broke even, and that is when the trade is executed PERFECTLY at the EXACT price short report asked to enter! However, after testing a few entries, I find it IMPOSSIBLE to enter at the defined price!

Another annoying habit of this short report is that they almost always use ‘YESTERDAY’s’ price as their entry. Of course yesterday’s entry price would be a lot more favorable than the price they suggest to get in today! That easily puts another 8%-10% margin for them.

The recommendations are always very hyped up, and always asking you to ‘exit when you have 100%’. however, if you were to look carefully at the trades, you’ll see that 100% trades are FAR and FEW in between, with a lot more trades hitting stop losses of 50%! For an average person who cant get in at Yesterday’s price, be sure to consistently lose money as even the BEST case barely broke even within a year (not counting trading costs etc)

Yet another annoying thing is the REFUND structure put in place. Yes, they DO refund within the 3 months, BUT, they make you jump through hoops and pass you from one sales person to another and they DO NOT practice the ‘no question asked’ policy. Even when I try to explain WHY I wanted a refund, the sales person(s) on the other end was snap and bordering rude, and kept telling me that I am taking advantage of their service, about how I did not try it out long enough with real trades, about why I am canceling so soon etc etc, and passing me from one person to the next where I have to explain over and over again! Finally, exasperated, I just said that I wanted the refund and thats it, and the person just HUNG UP! No closing statement about ‘yes, you’ll get your refund by when and when..”. It was just stopped so abruptly that I did not even know if it was understood that I wanted the refund! Fortunately, they DID process the refund, so there’s some honestly on their part and they did keep to their word about the refund.

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Posted by Mark on Mar 7, 2011 @ 2:48 am

Joined around Nov of 2010 and stuck around for the 3 month period offered in which I could cancel and still get most of the 3k back. Figured by then I could get a good taste of what type of “Ultimate Home Business” I could rely on!
I am pretty sure I lost most of my money on about 90% of the options I bought. I do think I learned alot about how to invest and have learned overall from Stansbury. I am shocked to hear that this Short Report has been such a loser for so long. Should have realized the only time they hyped his report in the reg newsletter was the only time it made any $.

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Posted by Wild Rose on Feb 26, 2011 @ 7:47 pm

I agree with many who say that Jeff Clark is very knowledgeable. I understand the term front running. But my gut tells me that is not happening. Yet I am totally surprised by one of the reviewers here who mentioned watching the minute by minute changes in options prices recommended by Jeff and noting a spike in price 20 minutes ahead of his email recommendation. I have had a lot of faith in Jeff’s integrity based on a few years of reading his reports and his comments on “Direct Line” Doggonit I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. But that does not mean that after he makes his recommendations, if they are reviewed prior to his hitting the send button, someone else in Stansberry is not getting an order in ahead of the subscribers.

I have also experienced the quick rise in the option price on may of his recommendations. I believed this was due to a multitude of subscribers jumping in there before I received the email. Believe me I have a life, I don’t sit there and wait for these recommendations to be emailed to me.

Another subscriber mentioned that three of Jeff’s recommendations all failed. I have gotten into a few and learned quickly that they can change direction in heartbeat. So, I have held a tight and “greedyless” reign on myself to achieve some profits. By the way I consider myself a novice even though I work hard to educate myself and learn from others – and Jeff Clark is a good teacher.

What I have done is reread some of his possible trades he never initiated. I was reading one of Jeff’s comments about a trade surrounding the BDI index when it was at 14. By luck when I read it BDI had dropped to 10+ and the shipping company he recommended as a proxy to the BDI index had followed suit. Looked to me like one of Jeff’s converging triangles so I made the trade he was thinking about and no one was there spiking my price. That was worth a 2-1/2 time gain. But the very next day the market changed directions abruptly and that trade was almost worthless.

What I hear many people say about many of these high priced options newsletters is the same thing subscribers here are saying by assessing a poor grade to Jeff. And I wonder if our expectations are to high for these folks. We are really betting that they have more experience in forecasting the future trends for us than we have. That’s what I am paying him for! Maybe modest success is all we really should expect out of any of them and not 80%? After all none of these guys are ancient biblical prophets!

By the way I am a long term subscriber to Stansberry and I get all the news letters except that big spendy one. I believe that if I would have followed more of the direction given to me by other newsletter writers at Stansberry instead of getting in the way ( I am my own worst enemy) I might have been more successful.

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