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soundguy
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soundguy
April 13, 2010 1:49 pm

After two years glad to be out. Felt like being pushed stock recommendations by a used car salesman. Wrong a lot more than right and does not like to admit errors. Please avoid. Trending 123 was right once in calling the top but has steered us into too many losers the past year. Mostly touting gold stocks the past 8 months

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David O'Shea
May 3, 2010 3:52 pm

This guy is a total joke. He is one of the slowest thinkers I’ve ever had the displeasure of wasting money on. I highly discourage anyone thinking of joining to spend money with them. And if you do, good luck getting your money back.

He’s like a punk kid in the school yard too. I’m ashamed that I ever supported any of the various habits he seems to have.

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Show Me
May 5, 2010 11:16 pm

Lost substantial amounts of money. Picks and timing was very poor. Claims made during the subscription process are not true. I did enjoy the charts, etc. But that does not make money. Anyone that is trading on their own should stay away: as far away as humanly possible.

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toks
June 2, 2010 8:44 am

Thanks to everyone who took their time to write something helpful of their past encounter with all the so call invetment services.I was thinking of been a member to JL,now i knw wht to do. The “Big Money Options” was my first place to join and a worst expirence, getting to the member area of the site, I cant stand what I saw, double digit loosers of about 6 picks while winners were abit above 10%. I knew i cant buil nothing on such advice so i close my account same day and ask for a full refund and i got it. stay away.Thaks to everyone who wrote in and alots of thanx to the founder of this service.

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Old Cat
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Old Cat
June 13, 2010 1:34 pm

Lansing has such an ego that he forgets about his losers. He will have you close winners just to claim that he had picked some winners. A trailing stop would be better most of the time. Yes he does close a fee winners that in the event of a black swan event that would get badly hurt. However he does not work with stop loses. Swing trades turn into longer term investments. I need to rotate my positions. 15 8% winners are better than 3 25% winners.
Be careful of all services related to Option Zone.

PP
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June 15, 2010 9:55 am

About the Lansing “Powertrading” service – he uses stock options for the first 90 minutes of trading. When these turn into “hold” trades because the market direction was not correct, John Lansing using similar logic to Trending 123 and completely ignores losses, insists the market will turn.
He will focus solely on new “day trade” picks.
He ignores valid questions on his technical analysis of market/option direction if the “previous pick” is losing money with answers such as “I don’t know what you are asking, that makes no sense”
He will then proceed to “educate” with insults on how his analysis is misunderstood by “idiots” in the room…
Then Lansing will continue to talk trivialities and ignore the real questions on market trend, indicators and when he gets really annoyed by the questions on losses he will “shut” the chat to stop people typing.
Avoid, learn elsewhere and save yourself from losses.

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Eyes Wide Open
July 5, 2010 9:15 am

I subscribed to Trending123 several years ago and now I see he is being touted by IBD as some great stock picker with Parabolic Options. His performance at Trending123 was dismal. I didn’t loose a lot of money, but he would change the entry point on some of the loosing trades to make them look better. Pretend as if he had never called a entry trade when it went against him. When rarely he was in the money it was because he recommended 30+ stocks and the sum of all of them would be slightly positive. You might as well buy an index as try to maintain 30+ ongoing trades. All of the negative comments by others above apply. This is a scam to fleece the unwary of subscriber dues, the only money that is being made.

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Adi
July 8, 2010 9:54 am

Been a member from Nov-09 to July-10.

Despite all the bad reviews that I saw on this website when I was about to join in Nov 2009 – I still joined it. I should not have done that. Biggest mistake that I have made.

I am actually a reasonably good investor and have a portfolio worth a little over 500k. The prospect of technical analysis fascinated me and I subscribed.

His winners have never EVER been big and out of about 20 stocks in his portfolio – about 3 have done well and not even that well. He markets all of his stocks like its gold but none of his predictions have come through. The funny part is that a few of them (he said it would double in about a month and its been 5 months now) started to do good and then tanked.

Yes, the market has been volatile and not all that great but this is where we should be different than these professionals.

Please remember that this service is going to cost you massive losses. Out of approximately 20 stocks in his portfolio, his biggest winners have given 10-20% and his losers are -10% to as much as -60%.

I have lost 50% of my money and I really wish I had gone the fundamental way or at least a better technical analysis way.

By the way, he will never respond to your emails or concerns. He is a good marketer and would have probably done much better being a salesman of a different sort.

Bad picks, both short and long term – do not subscribe is my humble opinion and it is coming from a guy who lost 50% of his investments by following Trending123.

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taken again
July 10, 2010 9:32 pm

What a scam this guy must be ..reading the complaints from other posters mirrors my experience for the last 4 months..if his market calls are losers his updates disappear for days…..he has been touting gold and mnay gold stocks for weeks saying Gold was ready for 1,350..well gold dropped over 60 bucks ,not a peep out of JL
He has been bearish stocks saying that the dow would drop in June under 9,000..then it was under 8500 in July and now he disappears with no updates after the Dow rallies over 500 Pts,
No word by JL to sell buy or whatever ,save your money and look elsewhere

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Jon
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Jon
July 14, 2010 2:42 pm

HEY – PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU PURCHASE ANY OF LANSINGS’S SERVICES!!!

As of today, July 14, 2010, John Lansing Parabolic Options
has 23 OPEN trades AND ALL BUT two ARE LESS THAN A 90% LOSS!!!!! The LEAST winning trade is the MGA Sept 60 Puts down only 71.47% and the SXCI July 70 Puts at 66.18% LOSS!!.

BXP, CREE CRM, EDU, EOG, ESS, FFIV, MTB, OPEN, OXY, QQQQ, SNDK, VNO, WLL & WYNN puts are all down an average of 96%!!

IF you STILL decide to invest, monitor your stop losses as he RARELY ever calls them . . FYI – I have printed out the top picks as you can probably got to the Investors Media website and look at this too.

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JJ
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JJ
July 25, 2010 11:20 am

Horrible picks. Money loser. Subscribed for 2 months and hardly any winning trades.

SL
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SL
August 19, 2010 10:41 am

Well, I guess I’ll sound like a broken record after reading all the negative responses but I just feel like putting my two cents in. Anything involving John Lansing will lose money unless you bet against him. He sounds like he knows what he’s talking about but if you take his advise you will learn the hard way that he is just a scam. He is very arrogant to anyone that questions his picks and expects you to stick with losing trade until they are worthless. I think this guy should be investigated. It’s almost as if he is putting you in the wrong side of the trade intentionally. BEWARE!!!!!

raygun
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raygun
August 20, 2010 4:05 pm

Lost 50% of my money. John was rude, would not answer questions about why a stock was down 40%. After six months, I insisted and received half of my subscription price back from investor place, the parent company.This guy has a mental problem.

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Bitxo
August 24, 2010 12:16 pm

Only been a member for c12 months – if you can take JL’s style (personally I find it a bit childish & very longwinded!) so far he seems to call the overall trends quite successfully. However his individual stock picks so far have been disappointing.

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September 13, 2010 10:49 am

I do not know why 300+ members are still subscribed to this power trading at open. He asks “any questions..? ” and when subscribers ask a question, he abuses and blames the losses on the subscribers. What a bad language he uses. Never seen consistent profit. When the $ 3 option goes down to 10 cents, he recommends to buy at 10 cents and sell it at 15 cents for 50% profit. I have lost over 60K. Please do your home work before following his trades.

I decided to leave him when he said “Why didn’t your mother have an abortion” – when someone asked do you think this option will be profitable.

When I called customer service today (13th Sep) to refund money for the month, They refused and said “there are hundreds of traders who like John” and offered only partial refund.

OptionsTrader
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OptionsTrader
September 14, 2010 9:01 am

Wish I had found this site before joining Lansing’s. Simple advice… stay away from any of his sites. He seems to be fixated on one index refusing to see what the rest of the market is doing resulting in very poorly timed picks which eat your money. If he is a “Professional” then he is either inept or engaged in a nefarious scheme to separate you from your investment. While he claims he does not “front run” his picks that doesn’t mean another associate does not. His options picks recently are all puts and amateurishly way out of the money. He insists the market will move back to make the option profitable and encourages the purchase of more options to scale in yet the market continues to race away in the opposite direction while the time factor eats your investment. The only hope for most of his picks is another “flash crash” to attempt a break even or minimize the loss. If you have any experience in options are you comfortable with your pick being anywhere from 60 to 90 percent down hoping for it to turn around? I think not! You would likely have been out of that trade long ago but Lansing will encourage you to scale in more and when the pick finally busts with little remaining will simply and casually tell you to let it expire worthless rather than pay a broker’s commission.

Lansing equates to Loser. Not him but you! Be warned!

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Jason
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Jason
September 14, 2010 9:52 pm

Not sure what the rules are here at Gumshoe for how long on keeping reviews, but I have been following this for a couple of years. There were posts here prior to 2009 that are no longer listed and none that I remember were any good for the scumbag JL. What I am saying there were a bunch more negative reviews fort John Lansing and Trending 123 that have been removed from this site. My guess is that Gumshoe tries to keep things current for its users, but in this case I am afraid that a charlatan like JL can keep going because his long shady histroy gets erased. Good luck and happy trading…

Stan
Stan
December 30, 2010 5:15 pm

I have subscribed to this Trending 123 for 1 year. I have made money on most of his picks – although only 1 or 2 big winners. Overall, I might have made about 10 or 15% on all of his picks. Not bad, but not all that good for a premium service.

He does provide some good education, but I agree with most other reviewers that it is inconvenient to listen to him and he can be annoying and long-winded. So, I’m quitting his service now.

Diana
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Diana
January 18, 2011 3:19 pm

Hello all
I subscribed to this service less than one month ago for a trial 30 day subscription. After reading all the negative reviews I decided to get out during the trial period. $99.00 will be refunded to my credit card and I did not put actual money into JLs picks. Thanks Guys!

PS-The Past results–mediocre at best– he posted did not entice me to stay with his service.

ferdi
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ferdi
January 19, 2011 2:40 pm

John Lansing was right almost to the day from the second part of 2009 to April of 2010 as he predicted the bull market. Then he predicted a bear market and initially he was right, but, when things turned around in July August, he continued to insist that a big crash was coming. Maybe technical analysis is worthless, maybe he is too dogmatic, but to follow his advice is too dangerous. If you had his put options in July you would have been killed. And this is the essential point: the risk of following is advice is too high and could ruin you.

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