Review by Joe, February 3, 2009

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This one was a joke from my perspective. First, you have to listen to the updates, not something that you are able to print off and read at your leisure. And with that you have to endure some ranting and raving and very rude comments. After investing money into these stocks for about 4 months and losing almost all of that money, I asked and received a refund.

Review by Richway, March 28, 2009

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It looks like the picks are still as bad as last year at this time when I tried the service. The guy puts a lot of work into it, but he was so rude and disrespectful of his followers, I had a hard time understanding what he was trying to prove; but then, a lot of his picks were tanking and he was under a lot of pressure, so maybe he is better now. I know he has raised the price too much for me to try it again. The Forum had a few “good old boys”, and the rest of us newbies were scum, IMHO. I lost money on most of the picks.

Review by golfer, May 17, 2009

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Been a member for about 3yrs. My advice is stay away. His picks stink. He recently closed the real time trading room using the excuse he needed more time to generate picks and mkt updates. Since then his updates have slowed to a trickle and his old stale portfolio picks remain, all down by the way. When the mkt goes against him he pretty much disappears. His updates are all video now so you cant print anything out either. Probably by design I feel. Save your money. I will not renew.

Review by Jon, August 3, 2009

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I subscribed to this newsletter this Spring to see if I could “double [my] money every two weeks” as he touts. Obviously, this was overly optimistic but I thought that even a 20% return would be decent. As a result of Mr. Lansing’s advice, I ended up losing almost all of the money in this part of my portfolio. I was curious about the past success of all of his picks and found that his gains were (at best) equal to his losses. I guess I should have put that money in the bank and made 1-2%. This one’s not even worth the free trial. Stay away.

Review by Delia, August 21, 2009

John Lansing, Trending123 and parabolic options.

Used his service between Jan 09 - April 09. i paper traded for 2 months before actually trading. He was off to a good start 6 March and had us sell our positions in mid March. That wasn’t a good call. And in early April, he had us short the market. He was on the wrong side of the trade for weeks, not wanting to admit that he was very very wrong, there was no stop loss. even when the options were 50-90% down, he insisted he was right, obnoxious and defensive on his videos. His service was inconsistent, gave me a big scare about newsletters and trading. NEW TRADERS avoid this newsletter unless you have the guts to ride the wild swings and losses with this subscription.

Review by James, August 25, 2009

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I lost a lot of money following John’s picks. First he says that he would not buy stocks with “found money” then he goes ahead and recommmends about 20 stocks about a week later. When all his stock picks tanked (some more then 50%) almost immediately after he picks them, he justifies his poor performance by saying that he warned us about the market tanking and he would not buy stocks with “found money”.
Here is a guy that talks so much from both sides of his mouth, he should become a politician.

When I first attended his trading room, I would offended by how rude he was to his subcribers. The entire time that he was in the room, he was either bragging about how good his past picks were or insulting his subscribers. Really that is mainly what he does when he is in the trading room.

Trending 123 is one website I wished I never joined.

Review by Jason, September 14, 2009

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I subscribed to this newsletter this summer for about a month. It made several recommendations about stock and ETF but almost all lost money. This guy does not seem to know how to stop loss and let his picks lose value for more than 50% without doing anything, i.e. FAZ. His picks appear counter the main trend. I naively followed his picks and lost a bunch. If you don’t want to lose your money, don’t ever listen to what he boasts.

Review by ray, November 11, 2009

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Avoid this site at all cost. This guy is an absolute fraud. He will call you an idiot for asking why he didn’t get out of a stock when it’s down 75% from where he recommended it. There is no doubt he has some kind of mental problem, kinda like a Jeykle and Hyde syndrome. You might make money if you do th eopposite of what he says

Review by Ferdinand, November 23, 2009

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I used to be a subscriber 4 years ago and it sounds like nothing has chnaged. My trading account lost 40%.

If you lost money it was your fault, if you complained you were abused, and when the market went against him he disappeared.

Review by Pat, November 25, 2009

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Subscribed to this newsletter for 6 months this year. John has an over-inflated ego and his recommendations consistently yield flat to negative results. Parabolic Options, his options trading service is similarly bad with a YTD (11/2009)average yield of -4% on his picks. Honestly, my pet monkey could do better. Buyer Beware!

Review by Snowy, December 21, 2009

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Subscribed a few months back to both trending and parabolic, to try them.

Lost 60% on options trades. His calls could have been beat by throwing a dart at a board and buying whatever. Rarely, if ever, sells out and admits he is wrong on an option. Just went thru his option list. Most are down over 70% and many over 90%. I tried to talk to him about his picks on twitter, but was banned immediately. Instead he posts nonsense on twitter, like the “Jefferson” song, “Movin on Up”, becuase one of his LOSER picks that was down over $7 moved up $1. It then cratered AGAIN. He did the same for another biotech and EVERYONE was creamed. I believe he has alternate ID’s and ratifys his calls on twitter. There is NOWAY anyone follwing him is making money on parabolics. ABSOLUTE NONSENSE! Please Please stay away or lose an immense amount of $$$.

His stocks picks are horrible also. He self porclaims he is the best IPO trader out there. Just try buying in. You lose and lose and lose. I used to make tremendous money with my own picks. I lost all confidence for a bit, because of him. Really people, all kidding aside. This guy will NOT allow anyone to correct him or challenge him in anyway. His picks are pure nonsense. You end up running out of money. he changes his mond continuously and then claims he has said something different in a previous post.

A friend of mine tried him also. We both noticed that his picks crash about 15% to 20% after he gives you a buyin. Then you are stuck. Then they pop a few %, then drop. He then brags about his calls as if he predicted it. Please stay away. Since he DOES NOT allow anyone to challenge him without being banned, it is his way or nothing.

His site is a money losing experience for everyone who joins.

Review by Jason, January 3, 2010

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I have to agree with the negative reviews on Trending 123, JL was a horrible stock picker and options picker when I was in on the site in 08. If you were to use JL as what not to do, you would have made a bundle last year, i.e. he says buy, and you sell… that is the only way to make money on that site. That was my experience in with T123.
When IBD had a feature article on JL and how great he was; I canceled it to (IBD), that is when I realized the IBD did not vet any of there stories. If a financial reporter spent one day doing research they would have been able to run their own numbers published on his site at the time to say; WTF…… I did give the site 5 stars for service, because they gave me my money back but the rest of the categories do not deserve any…..

Good luck to all in 2010

Review by Glenn, January 5, 2010

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If it were easy we would all be rich … right? John seems dedicated to get it right and is hard working. Clearly puts in lots of time and thought in his analysis. He is no dummy and he has been around the block a few times in his past. I enjoy his attempt to integrate Elliott with pattern recognition and oscillator position thus attempting to increase the chance of success. I have questions related to his like of some Chinese stocks however he has a knack for picking Gold related futures and mining stocks.

I especially like him because he can give you confidence related to the major markets’ probable direction. He answers your email questions within minutes but I try not to burden him with meaningless questions. I am aware that even the smartest analysts can occasionally fail. You have to study the subject yourself to develop an understanding of technical analysis. You just can’t blindly follow anyone’s recommendations though I suspect some may do that. I think that whether you make money with Lansing or not you will become a better trader in the future for following his logic and techniques and adding these to your trading tools.

Review by Larry, January 16, 2010

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I started subscribing to T123 in the fall with a $100-for-six-months offer, and now will have some more time to figure out whether I will continue after the offer ends. From when I first had access to the website I have been impressed with the returns of closed positions. Based on the average return and the average holding period I came up with quite nice annual returns for 2008 and 2009, even after considering transaction costs. Based on my few months’ experience I do not believe that the returns posted are outright lies and fabrications, which confirms what Snowy reported above that he does appear to put badly performing positions on the website. However, I am somewhat skeptical that his readers can match his returns. Buy recommendations often experience quite a bump, so you might have problems building a position at his prices. The updates are timed somewhat unsteadily sometimes, and listening to all of them can be time-consuming, and I would prefer a write-up with instructions as to what to buy/sell at what price. I am not looking for a great educational experience but instructions that can be implemented easily. My own results are not outstanding, but not too bad either, but I haven’t acted on his recommendations too actively yet. I closed out two positions after a short holding period with small profits, which were not bad given the short holding periods, and I currently have three positions which are slightly positive on average.

Review by Robert, January 16, 2010

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I keep getting emails from John Lansing at options zone. At the bottom it tells us that it is sent from InvestorPlace. I wonder if this John does any math. He claims that with his picks he has been doubling his clients account about every 9 days since he started his service in May 2008. That would be 55 doubles. A little math 2 to the 55 power times whatever you started with say a thousand comes out to billions of trillions of dollars which is more money than there is on the planet. Without going after his picks you can see he is lying from the start and so there is no point in buying his product.

Review by JK, January 22, 2010

This is false advertising by Trending 123:

Meet John Lansing, trading maverick who banked 83.7% winning trades over the last two years. Not by following the crowd – but by challenging every supposed fact that came out of Wall Street. Now – as most Wall Streeters have turned into snorting Bulls – Lansing warns of a new imminent crisis. But he also explains how you can profit, using his hype-proof scientific trading system.

Review by Minimaster, January 23, 2010

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Trending 123 sucks. JL is arrogant and quite often WRONG. He insisted that the market was going to tank (in flames)and so recommended FAZ in May 2009 and it proceeded to go down over 80%. He is very bullish now (Jan 23, 2010) and has many way out of the money calls in his Parabolic Options newsletter that are most likely going to be worthless.

Review by Mr. J, February 27, 2010

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If you are reading this there are only two reason for it: 1) You are interested in finding out if Trending123 is worth the money or 2)You have already LOST your money and want to warn ANYONE ELSE that may be THINKING about the service.
PLEASE TAKE HEED….like Ulysses and the Sirens you should stop up your ears, tie yourself to the mast, and LOCK YOUR ACCOUNT AWAY until the moment passes. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
If you STILL want to join his service, PLEASE COMMIT only the SMALLEST AMOUNT to it that you can and only that amount that you can lose 100% of for it will happen like the night that follows the day.

And honestly, you should probably donate some money to the Gumshoe here for running a service like this one. He MAY just have saved you countless thousands of dollars….I WISH I had known about the Gumshoe BEFORE I signed up with TrendingDOWNaseasyas123!

Review by jk, March 12, 2010

I have to agree with all the comments here, my time viewing the site was terrible, and yes I did suffer some losses, but not to extent that this charlatan was advocating. And, all I heard for his other site was parabolic losses with options.
The real culprit in this scam is:
InvestorPlace Media, LLC
700 Indian Springs Drive
Lancaster, PA 17601
By phone: 1.800.219.8592
These guys apparently have no problem destroying there reputation, probably did not have one to begin with…..

At $600 to $800 year, the dude is making money and he does not have to trade. He money is made hand over fist by subscriptions, with only 2000 subscribers he has 1.2 million in sales and I am sure he gets half from Investor Place. Hey it’s a great scam and I am sure a great legal living for him and disastrous for your portfolio….