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Simon
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May 8, 2009 3:34 pm

I’ve subscribed to Chris Rowe’s Trend Rider service for 8 months or so… and i’m something like 13 for 17 so far on his pics. The guy’s technical analysis and introduction to the NYSE bullish percent index alone is worth the price of admission, and the education on options in his subscriber area is the best i have EVER SEEN, bar none. He has an incredible way of explaining a complicated subject and making it easy to understand.

Chris will send out an alert to buy a specific put/call, for a specific company, at a specific price, and tell you exactly why… with a short fundamental and technical analysis.

Then, he will update you periodically on it’s performance, and when the time is right he will tell you to sell at a specific price with a reason why.

I have found that you need to enter your options order within 20 minutes or so of his email, otherwise you may not get filled at the price he suggests, but even i have taken liberties with his pics. On 4 of those profitable occasions i have just sold when i got a ‘pop’ on an option and i was happy with the return. Then that freed up cash for the next pic… and on and on.

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snowram
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snowram
September 28, 2009 1:29 pm

I had the opposite experience with trend rider and CRISS last year, most of the picks tanked and he lets options go all the way to worthless. Definitely not worth the 2k price tag for CHRISS or the trend rider subscription price. He may be having an ok run now, but last summer and fall it was a disaster.

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Snowram
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Snowram
September 28, 2009 2:51 pm

BTW if your determined to take his CRISS course for 3,000, people are selling it for $100-200 on a few sites selling used courses.

ingridann
ingridann
September 30, 2009 2:26 pm

I also had a dismal experience with The Trend Rider. (My subscription started in June ’08.) What bothered me most was seeing his teasers about the 80% win rate while I was losing money on his recommendations.I didn’t realize that his subscribers would drive up the price of the options, making an additional hurdle to overcome on the way to profits. Their customer service is very good, however, and I have an 18 month subscription that won’t expire until November. I just ignore his e-mails, and look at it as a lesson learned. Besides, it was through The Tycoon Report that I found Stock Gumshoe, and that was a good thing.

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jd
October 23, 2009 8:27 am

If you are considering this subscription, ask for the overall return on the sample portfolio since its inception. If they are honest, it will be in the 3% range. They offer the CHRISS system which will teach you how to profit from options. But,wait, now there is options GPS. These guys know how to make money. By selling subscribtions to their advice columns and courses at a big price. I can make an accurate claim that you can make a 150% return at the black jack table. All you have to do is sit there and play until you get black jack. That is they way their advice works.

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BigJim
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BigJim
December 4, 2009 9:54 am

Chris Rowe’s recommendations are big losers. I recently lost big time on his FAZ and TNDM recommendations then cancelled the service before the trial period was over. He gives useless technical insight on his picks as well as the market, and rarely updates his losing picks. He bets against good companies with tons of cash in a bull maket. He is clueless. He would not know good technical analysis if it was shot all over his face. SAVE YOUR MONEY!

Luckily I have had good success with another service that has made up for the Chris Rowe adventure. It is not an option advisory but includes top notch picks and updates with fully explained technical analysis. You can buy options on some of the picks but be careful to buy ones with high open interest and good daily volume only. All this only costs $100 for the first six months and $150 every six months after. The name of this service is: Trending 123 with John Lansing. It’s cheap and makes Chris Rowe look like Kindergarten. I would suggest paper trading or small positions until you get in the swing.

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falconium
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falconium
April 26, 2021 9:19 am
Reply to  BigJim

I just looked up FAZ. It looks like the Titanic after it hit the iceberg!

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Bob
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Bob
December 10, 2009 3:27 pm

I tried this one for a few months. Every trade was a loser. (This is a case where high consistency is not a good thing.) To be sure, in the past month the stock market has been going nowhere so trades based on trends haven’t been likely to work. (Selling options rather than buying them has worked better for me lately.) But still, I’d expect better from a pricey newsletter like this.

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David Weinstein
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David Weinstein
December 30, 2009 9:29 am

Chris Rowe is definitely a very smart analyst/money manager. He did have a crappy run this year without question. But I have been a subscriber since 2005 and he went some quarters with 95% win rates. He went through 05, 06 and 07 hitting about 4 out of5 winners.

08 was good in that right before the market tanked he BEGGED his subscribers to get bearish and at least don’t be bullish and this made me 7 figures in profits. He was a little better than even for 2008.

So when the guy has a bad year for 2009 I have to give him a pass. He has a system that works extremely well in most markets. Not the one we just saw in 2009.

I just made profits on an XME spread and on a relative strength pairs trade where he bet technology would outperform energy.

2009 definitely wasn’t his year. he had lots of profits on the table and failed to take them before they turned to losses – which in his defense he cut short before they became reallly bad.

As far as his commentary on the market goes, it’s the best there is out there. This guy has a very clear picture of what’s going on in the market and gives it in a very easy to understand manor. He’s a Wall Street money manager and I think he is out to do the right thing which is rare.

That’s it. So he had a bad 2009. that’s for sure. But before that he was, in fact, 4 out of 5 winners. And since 2009 was his 5th year in operation, I guess you can say that about his years in business too (4 out of 5 winners).

The folks here are being too hard on him.

David W. San Fran CA.

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buffalodiesel
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buffalodiesel
March 10, 2019 10:03 am

OK. So…. are you still in the program … and how is he doing NOW?????? March 2019

jack
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jack
January 9, 2010 2:25 am

Very poor performance.

William Vanderford
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William Vanderford
January 14, 2010 9:44 am

I just subscribed to Trend Rider after reviewing their educational emails for over a year. Chris Rowe trumpeted a great track record in his last email “Some good news & some bad news” including one 267% winner. After joining, ($750 for 3 mos) I reviewed the TR portfolio which goes back to 2005. The %267 ‘winner’ isn’t there at all and for 2009 there are many more losing trades than winners. Going back to 2005 still reveals a terrible track record with some 100% losers and many options expiring worthless. The only way to get a refund is call their “customer service” number and guess what? After a week of calling they have yet to return my calls. I may have to take legal action.

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Bonzai
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Bonzai
February 22, 2010 2:03 am

I’m about 5 winners and 21 losers with this guy over the last 9 months. To break even on his pics right now i have to gain about 300%. (I typically put about $2000 or so into each pic and keep $8000 in cash as part of the trade like he teaches, so i need to make about $6000 to break even; i’m really only down a small percentage on my whole portfolio, but i’m still down in a 6 month bull market that has gone up 40% that sucks).

His technical analysis is actually very good, and it’s obvious he has a lot of experience, reading his commentaries, but he is on a horrible losing streak. That wasn’t always the case as David pointed out above, so i am confident once the market settles into some predictabilty again Chris will be back to 80% correct. As far as i can figure it, he’s had a bearish bias since July and went heavy into bearish trades in July and November. He was completely wrong, and his trades suffered.

Juan
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Juan
April 29, 2010 6:17 pm

I just started a few months ago so my opion is shortsighted. I have made back my subscription fee already with just a few of his trades. So far so good. I am glad to have read about the bad experiences. I will definitly keep my eyes open.

David O'Shea
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David O'Shea
May 3, 2010 4:05 pm

Used the service since 2005 so ever since launch. 2009 was not a good year. Every other year was. 2008 started off bad but made insane money during the crash and decent money aside from that although there were some big losers, in 2008 I came out on top. 05, 06, 07 was awesome. 07 market topped out and Chris called it the whole time from April through years end he was nailing the Wall Street stocks.

Saw someone above mention losing on FAZ and TNDM. I lost on FAZ. But made over 80% on TNDM. Model portfolio in TTR says lost 51% of FAZ and gained 58% on TNDM.

Big Jim who said lost on TNDM – Sounds like you are promoting another service. Nonetheless, I do like what you said about him not knowing TA if it was shot on his face. I disagree, but that’s the funniest thing I read in ages!

Final word is – its 2010 and out of 11 picks he won on 8 so that’s not bad. And I know he would not like me giving his trades out but so far I am up about 100% on last weeks picks of BQI and BQI warrants which he thinks will be in double digits from under a buck.

I had to leave this since I’m a life long client (TTR’s life) and overall am treated well. Learning a lot. Thanks Chris if you read these.

Dave O’Shea

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David O'Shea
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David O'Shea
May 3, 2010 4:07 pm

Just to clarify what I said above about “nailing Wall Street stocks” – Chris takes both bullish and bearish positions so he was making us crazy money on put options on Wall Street Stocks starting at 2007 top.

Sorry if confused U.

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So So
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So So
May 9, 2010 8:38 pm

I subscribed to the Trend rider in the fall of 2007 for one year. I found the performance to be so so. I lost on most positions opened as recommended. He boasted about making more money in bear markets than bull markets, but I never saw any of it. I had a small account, so I’d buy one option at a time and see how it did. Out of 7 or so trades, I lost on 4 or 5. Definitely a bad run. I did have one winner that around 90%, but I still came out at a loss. Having educated myself far more now, I reviewed his recommendations from the time and some of it was good while some of it was sloppy, like trying to catch a bounce in a downtrend (trading against the trend) and buying calls while a stock was extremely overbought. The technical analysis was fun to read, I give it that. I should review again, just for kicks. I admit that I only experienced one year so it may have been a bad run, but options are difficult to cut losses on, so you’d better be prepared to lose it all if it goes against you (doesn’t happen that much). That should be okay if you follow his money management reco to have 80-90% of your position in an interest-bearing account and only trade 10% or so on the option. Wouldn’t buy it again with the experience I had. Customer service was hard to reach, too.

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John Gellar
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John Gellar
August 7, 2010 1:14 pm

I subscribed in 2007 and made some money and lost some money. In 2010 I have been making lots of money with The Trend Rider and luckily missed some of the losers. But what I’ve learned by reading what he writes to us has made me a much better trader and I’m using that to make lots of money on my own. I’m still with the service. I enjoy it.

John Gellar
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John Gellar
August 7, 2010 1:15 pm

Made lots of money in the 2008 crash with Chris by the way

robertwaters
robertwaters
January 19, 2013 3:15 pm

Trend Rider is no longer published as Chris is in retirement but probably not for long. He writes for The Tycoon Report on Tuesdays ” Technical Tuesdays” a free service through the Institute of Individual Investors. He is the co founder of the above and they offer education of various sorts of investing. I am a member of thier Alliance and have learned tons…. for me its good. I was a member of Trend Rider but only got the last 6 months before he stopped.

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Piqo Tineil
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Piqo Tineil
February 19, 2017 9:49 pm

Although the service is old and I think closed, I was googling around and landed here so I’ll comment. Chris Rowe was great with Trend Rider but because it was based on stock options, there was massive volatility (to be expected). I made wins on several that were above 100% and there WERE (much less frequently) trades with 100% losses.

But it seems the people commenting here are people who didn’t do well. I can only surmise they didn’t understand options can and will go to zero.

Here’s why that’s a better deal: Options allow for leverage. So instead of buying a stock at 100, I can buy the call option that gives me the right to buy the stock at 90 and pay only $13.00 for the option.

If the stock goes up 50 points, the call option goes up about 47 points but if the stock goes down 50 points, the call only goes down 13 points (to zero).

On his webinars people used to confess they put way too much money in certain picks they liked.

Over all, I made a lot of money on TTR so I thought I’d chime in because these comments are really unfair. I went to a live seminar with Chris Rowe and the IFII crew. Great guys and I thought they were the most genuine people I ever met in the investment world.

Last thing I’ll say is I don’t recall specifics but I do recall how Chris Rowe used to always tell people not to over leverage and how to trade these things but people who get into options the wrong way are gamblers and hate admitting fault.

Piqo Tineil

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Chris Rowe
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May 26, 2022 11:59 pm

I have all the screenshots of the entire trade history of The Trend Rider and if you guys let me upload it I will. We did extremely well over all and of course some people lose money if they happen to take a string of losers (like every trader ever to trade has) or invest 100% of their money in one trade or something crazy – It hurts me because we are probably the best in the business and do really well for people and help hundreds of thousands of investors –
but, some people come here to complain – so of course this is going to appear as though it was bad. I have thousands of testimonials people sent me thanking me for profiting like crazy from 2007 – 2009 on bearish trades and a lot more – commodities leading up to the 2008 top (for those stocks)… I mean for every bad comment below I literally have over 100 positive. Shameful. Take some responsibility if you over leveraged and if you are one of the unlucky ones who had ever catches a string of losing trades as it sometimes happens I am sorry. We’ve been working on customizing things so people don’t do things they’re not comfortable with.

But in the meantime we are helping people and you can find reviews elsewhere and not just this site that’s biased on the negative side.

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