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Stan
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Stan
December 13, 2009 4:24 pm

It’s been a couple of years since I tried Options Hotline… What I do remember is that I lost a good chuck of $$ AND that there was no exit strategy. At least most other services offer an exit strategy.
What I don’t understand is why Agora continues a service with such a poor rating… makes me wonder about the quality of the other Agora services….

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Al
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December 28, 2009 5:22 pm

My experience was similar to many of you. The advertising is deceptive and the results are no where near what’s depicted.
It’s an example of distorting results to promote your service. As some said earlier you probaply could have made more money doing the opposite of his recommendations.

I highly recommend using services like this to check out any company or service you are considering investing in.

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January 27, 2010 11:57 am

I’ll complement from my experience with Larry Blair’s review. It is exactly how most newsletter does they exaggerations. Basically, they gives a conservative and aggressive price point along with each reco, when to exist is your decision. One would think they cannot claim a winner unless it at least meet the conservative exist price, but as Larry pointed out, even intra day price goes up by 1 cent, it’s a winner to them, most of the case, it went way down afterwards and never come back. And that’s how they claimed no losser since 2007.

I had been with Option Hotline since Oct of 2008. Initially it has a few of winners and so I hold onto this subscription thinking it is going to stand out of others. As it turned out, I have maybe a couple of winners since mid-2009. Everything else is a big loss. Also keep in mind, most options reco here were expensive options, while the winning maybe high, so were the losses.

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FC
January 27, 2010 9:37 pm

Too much been said on the advertising technique of this newsletter. The claim of no loser since 2007 is definitely a false statement, far from it!!

The way this newsletter works is they give one reco once a week with a conservative and aggressive target. When to exist is your decision. The only problem is the reco might go the right direction (call or put) for a bit then reverse. Only very few will hit the conservative target, never mind the aggressive target. It has been having losers after losers since the beginning of Q2 of 2009

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R.D.
March 18, 2010 12:07 pm

I think it’s as close to being a con trick as one can get without being arrested. I wonder why Agora stick with him. Their involvement with this loser tarnishes their other products. I will not pay out money for any more of their services, ever!

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Boris
March 30, 2010 4:30 pm

I have this subscribtion for several months since they gave it to me for free instead of Easy Options that got closed. I also had it for a year before, in 2008 for $500 and lost money at that time. I agree with the most what the others say about Options Hotline. Just want to be fair. He does tell you when to sell option based on stock price, if it goes your way. Most options recommended are under $5 and either out of money or slightly in the money with 1 to a few months term. Quite a few of them did very well, gaining sometimes 100% and more in a few weeks. What’s missing is loss management. He never tells you to use loss stop. He gives you support and resistance levels but when stock goes nowere or against you and you lose money very quickly. His weekly updates are useless, he never tells if he still thinks there is still any sence holding it. I think it’s still possible to be successful with this subscribtion if you use 25-30% loss stop on every one of his option.

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Paul
April 28, 2010 7:05 pm

My experience in the past was EXCELLENT! I traded Options Hotline picks for a period of 6 months and I loved it. This was 2 years ago! Unfortunately, my marriage was on the rocks at that time and when it finally caved, I had to deal with other issues in life and stopped trading. However, I must say…that if it wasn’t for the money I had made with Options Hotline when we separated, my situation would have been much worse. The great news is that i’m back and looking forward to trading Options Hotline again within one month! It was the FASTEST and EASIEST money I have ever made. However, I also watched it real close and that is an ABSOLUTE MUST in trading options. You also must know your stops at any given moment to succeed in trading options. It was also a huge rush when I made $2,300 and change in 2 days, $1,700 in 4 days etc… I did have some losses which were miniscule, but only because I ALWAYS had a stop loss in mind just as he teaches. In my opinion this newsletter is worth EVERY PENNY!

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Jake
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Jake
October 2, 2010 10:36 am

I make consistent money with this advisory. I simply sell what he advises to buy and almost always make a tidy sum at the end of the option expiration. Saved me a bunch of times, because there were many times I was bearish and Steve was bearish too, so I backed off and sure enough Steve (and I) were wrong. he’s so bad in his recos that i can do the opposite and do well.

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Malc
October 30, 2010 10:48 am

This nitwit ought to be shut down. Am I pissed because I got conned??? Hmmmm…………maybe just a little. They were pretty quick at cancelling my subscription, though. Guilty conscience perhaps?

Omar
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November 24, 2010 4:47 pm

I want to thank every one for the honest reviews and comments. I just subscribed to this service and I will start trading in a couple of days. Steve’s first two recos I paper traded so far, was EBAY 30 puts dec (which to date is at a loss and his JCP Feb call at 31 is in the money). So, on paper, he is 50/50 with me. After hearing all the comments, my process moving forward will be to put a 20% stop losses on every trade!, only purchase 10 options max on every trade, and watch each trade closely, every day. I think no one has a crystal ball and at the end of the day you have to put in the work to see the results. I will follow up with you guys in a couple of weeks and let you know what happens. I am pretty sure I will have a loss here and there but overall I will come out ahead using a sound discipline. In the mean time thank you for the honest reviews and have a happy,and blessed holiday.

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Thomas
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Thomas
August 12, 2011 10:16 pm

This service came as part of the Agora Reserve 3 years ago. I followed his recos a few times and consistently lost money because I cannot watch my positions multiple times a day. Most expire worthless. Maybe there is value for active day traders.

Also, using the maximum to compute performance is more than just misleading. I could randomly pick some puts and calls on some stocks and I, too, would have doubles every second time, if I only count the maximum option value attained for a second. This is probably the least useful service out of Agora. They should really drop it.

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Kevin
February 8, 2012 5:39 pm

I got into this via the Agora Reserve. Wish I could leave now – but after paying what I did to start, it seems odd to lose all that research to not pay the yearly fee. I got sucked in.
I wanted to like this options service. The numbers were amazing. Problem is: everyone’s numbers can be amazing in hindsight when using intraday prices (especially on options). That’s what all of the figures in this publication are based on. Total scam. Used it for 3 years, lost money in 1, made some in 1 and broke even in the last.
The problem is that there are far too few updates and not enough information with many of the recommendations.

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