written by reader Peak Velocity Newsletter

by leesal | March 21, 2017 9:21 pm

Banyan Hill[1] Publishing (James Dale Davidson, Paul Mampilly[2], J L Jastine among others) is promoting another newsletter … Peak Velocity…Allegedly a Michael Carr[3] spent 10 years and $300,000 developing his software program that will give subscribers 2-3 recommendations per month of stocks ready to explode. The idea is to buy high and sell higher .. momentum plays. Carr tested his program with 7 beta testers … they made 1,191% profit in two months buying call options[4] on recommended stocks. Now we get to subscribe for $2,995 provided we’re amongst the first 1,000 subscribers.

I almost went for it but had reservations when I learned the guarantee did not refund my dollars if not satisfied, but only gave me the option of applying the money to another Banyan Hill newsletter. Further, the service may have been great for 7 testers, but what will happen to those option premiums when 1,000 subscribers all place orders on the same options?

Ugh!!! Lee Salisbury

Endnotes:
  1. Banyan Hill: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/tag/banyan-hill/
  2. Paul Mampilly: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/tag/paul-mampilly/
  3. Michael Carr: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/tag/michael-carr/
  4. options: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/tag/options/

Source URL: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/2017/03/microblog-peak-velocity-newsletter/


102 responses to “written by reader Peak Velocity Newsletter”

  1. Ron H says:

    I’m using the option trading strategies that I learned from Peak and doing some trades on my own. I am sensing that the S&P 500 Index and Russell Small Cap Index could take a beating anytime between now and end of October (the traditional leery months). So buying Puts to open on the SPY and IWM might just work in a down market, then sell to close before expiration. Do your research, but Nov – Jan seem to be good expirations to work with. You can also look these up and see what the open interest is to get an idea of where the other institutional investors are putting their money. You do that on the trading system that you are using.

    Also other potential gainers could be buying Calls on the GLD and SLV if you believe gold and silver are going to break through their resistance levels (1,300 and 18 respectively, which I do. Wish I could share what I am doing but prohibited by firm. Yep, and I could lose too. Nothing new. Good luck.

  2. hello, I joined Peak Velocity Trader after its conception. It boasted of having a 70% success rate. Boy was I sucked in. I do not think one single investment has yet to have a simple 100% return. On 4 separate investments, they tanked overnight with a complete 100% loss on all calls. Now he is recommending jump at a 15% profit…wow. The old expression a”A fool and his money are soon parted” This is never so true. If want a truly loosing membership join Peak Velocity Trader. Making small simple investments I have managed to loos $30,000.00 on Michael’s recommendations. Boy can he sure pick the looser.

  3. Scott Paul says:

    All of these option services seem to be nothing like losers. Don’t know why people still think there’s a magic service that can overcome the inherent problems in option buying. See my prior post,
    https://www.stockgumshoe.com/2012/08/microblog-john-jagerson-and-slingshot-trader/comment-page-2/#comment-4954889

    It is amazing that they can get away charging $3000 for a blatantly fraudulent service. Futures traders and advisors don’t seem to be able to get away with it, the CFTC is all over them. Wonder why these snakes don’t get caught the same way? Again, if the mythical Michael Carr could really make this kind of return:
    $119,000 in profits over the next two months…
    $357,000 in profits over the next six months…
    $714,000 in profits over the next 12 months…
    And a whopping $1 million or more in as little as 18 months!

    Then why would he bother selling it for $3000? He could just start with $10K per trade, and build on from his profits, and make $3M in 18 months. But it’s a lot easier to spend a couple thousand on sending out a BS email and video, and make $3M in a month selling this “service” to a bunch of desperate traders who think that buying options is an easy way to riches.

    In reality, one should probably take the opposite side of all these trades by the option services, and you’d make out great. For all we know, the runners of the service are doing exactly that, and profiting even more from the misfortunes of those unwary enough to believe in their claims.

  4. MoonLight says:

    Guys, I guess speaking up does help if you see something that is not right! JL Yastin now finally shows all closed positions (including losses) on his profile and that’s way it should be! Thank you for listening!

  5. Lammaster says:

    PM has a new EF recommendation coming up …

    a small company which manages over $240 billion in capital , firms like Merck, intel, Pfizer , GE and Johnson &Johnson rely on it?

    its based out of a small building in CA

    this stock already has gains of 62% in less than a year?

    what is that stock?

  6. Don’t waste your money on that scam

  7. len says:

    My experience over the past year, after having paid for their services and then followed their recommendations to a T. Chad Shoop…disaster and considerable overall money loser. Jeff Opdyke…disaster and big overall money loser. JL Yastine….moderate money loser overall. Micheal Carr……the worst of the bunch and huge money loser overall. Gets 1-2 winners and conveniently forgets that he had 12-14 losers in that same interval. He’s fraudulent to then claim he’ll make you 714%! More like he’ll lose you 300-500%. The only money maker is Paul Mampilly. But even he will have to honour the second year of EF free, as it will come nowhere close to his original guarantee of 1000% gains overall by its one year mark of Feb. 7, 2018.

  8. pete says:

    research his peakprofits at newsmax that promised 1% a week. went out of business Beware

  9. stacie says:

    this service is awesome! I have made over 30 K in 1 year with his options trades.

  10. RegalLady says:

    Thanks for all of the info. I was seriously considering PV and have now decided against it. I like some of Paul’s stock recommendations and the “why” behind them. Has anyone been following him for a fair amount of time to give an opinion on his success rate? I recently subscribed to UP.

  11. I paid the $3K to join the service in Feb. 2018 as of this post (04/09/18) he’s 1 for 15.
    I also had trouble getting his email alerts, contacted the service and never got a resolution. So sometimes I have to wait a day for them to post the alert on the website to see what the trade was.
    It didn’t take long to wipe out my account w/ 14 loosing trades and 1 win. I believe we need to start holding Banyan Hill and Mr. Carr accountable for publishing more then the over the top returns their gurus make on random trades but to publish what their win/loss ratio’s are for all of their services they try to sell.
    I believe Banyan Hill and Mr. Carr to be an honest group but a little more truth in advertising wouldn’t hurt.

  12. James Malcom says:

    What a disaster this has been . Desaster number one. I signed on in Oct of 1017 and he does not tell you that you Have to be accepted by a broker to trade options. I have no options experience and i told the truth on my application with TD Ameritrade who was my broker and was told I could not trade options. I opened a account with Fidelity and put in a application to trade options and was also turned down because I have no experience in options. I thought why do you need experience if you have Michael Carr telling you exactly what to do. I asked for my money back and was turned down. They gave me the two weeks plus another month to get approved. I opened a account with the same Broker Michael Carr uses and lied on the application about all kinds of option experience and was approved to trade options. I wonder how many other unsuspecting investors paid thier money then had to lie to the broker in order to do Michaels Carr’s options?

    Desaster number two . I don’t know options so I can only do exactly what he says. If I had done the opposite if every trade he recommended I would be making big money instead I am loosing big money.
    This service has been a joke.

  13. dlmclean says:

    Many losses with Mike. I need to switch subscriptions. Any success with Banyons other premium services?

  14. pete says:

    this loser ran peak profits at newsmaxx and lost his ass
    banyan hill editors know this loser was poor because they watched him suck at newsmaxx. if this guy was really rich you would see more on google

  15. fcorrie says:

    I was looking to invest in the Peak Velocity Trader program also. However, before taking the risk with this reported profitable system, I requested that I be sent a year track record of the stock entry points and exit points. These would allow me to do my analysis to see if the program really worked.
    Molly, from Banyanhill, stated that this information was only for subscribers and confidential. So as a potential investor, I am to take the advertisement pitch as stated with no substitution. I don’t know, but this attitude does not follow the rules of investing. The first rule is to know what you are investing in to make an intelligent decision.
    As an investor, I can find every stock portfolio with its historical events and movements to research and perform an analysis. But apparently, we are to hand over thousands of dollars to Mr. Michael Carr without any substantial data backing up his claims.
    Without this supporting data, no one should invest in the Peak Velocity Trader report.
    As other have stated this program is bogus.

  16. fcorrie says:

    With regards to the guarantee here is the verbiage:
    100% Satisfaction Guarantee
    If at any point during your membership, you decide this is not for you, simply give us a call to cancel your membership to this service. You can use your remaining membership fee to switch to any of our other investment research programs.

    1,200% Guarantee
    If, after a full year, my track record doesn’t give you the chance to make gains of at least 1,200% – give the team a call and we will give you another year of this service, completely free.

    No refund is mentioned in either of these guarantees.

  17. meassassin says:

    Sorry for the long long reply, however I looked and looked for something similar and couldn’t find it. So I promised my self I would type it up. Here is me keeping my promise.

    I’ve tried 6 of the services (Started with 3 and moved cost to others), each 2-3 months to start, monitored very closely. Gave 20K for service Divided by 10 (2K per pick).

    AutoProfAlert.ChadShoop
    Quick Hit Profits.ChadShoop
    RapidProfitAlert.PaulMampilly
    PrecisionProf.Micheal.Carr
    TotalWealthInsider.Jeff.Yastine
    BaumanLetter.Ted.Bauman

    Total Wealth – (-$600)(-3%) – cancelled first month. Mostly big name stocks approaching their 52 week high, lost a couple percent.

    Precision Profits – (-$8200)(-42%) – cancelled after 3 months , took another month to unwind. Lost 42% (was seriously considering using PUT when he said Call, etc – back tested and I would be up appx 4K)

    Baumen Letter – (+$800)(+4%) – No longer follow recs (not that bad for the most part, just very slow. Apparently designed such that they out perform dow and are safe. Not what I was looking for in a service. However, the letter is not too expensive and full of good advice and information)

    Auto Profit Alert – (+$1000)(+5%) – cancelled after almost 3 months. Was clear not what I was looking for in a service, too slow. I can pick slow stocks, utilities, old growth divvys, etc. Up appx 5%. About 400 of that was from div’s.

    Quick Hit Profits – (+9000) – Current subscription. Very Volatile Options trading, not for faint of heart. Chad will let a trade drop to a a hundred bucks then say sell to preserve capital. Once in a while those massive drops do come back and then some. Other times he will jump out when you are down 15% to preserve capital, even with 3 months to go. I wait another month’ish depending. Typically sell 50% when you are up 50%. Then hold for better gains (which happens, but only 20% of the time). I did not strictly follow his rules (appx 4K of + is from my decision to NOT sell for a hundred bucks but wait it out). Am currently instituting my own new rules. Am currently down appx 12K, but have many open trades with several months to go. One or 2 will likely be losses.

    Rapid Profit Alert – (+$7500)(+37.5%) – Current subscription. Very Volatile Options trading…Pretty much the same as Quick Hits. Including all the other stuff I wrote above.

    After 4+ months of this, I have decided to institute a couple rules. Back testing all of the 2 services where I remain shows that I would be another 6-??K ahead (you never know for sure where you get in and out).

    To me only the bottom line matters. Total In vs. Total Out. Once my Total exceeds 20%+ gain, I will begin removing half proceeds each month. The rest I will roll.

    Currently though I am up appx 9500 on 60,000 (15%), lets remember that these are active and changes occur daily. I am currently down app 20K. In other words my 60K shows 49,500 value, 20,000 loss. Of course I have about 22 open trades doing various things at various times, in various ways, and have various lengths left ot do them in. When the monthly average shows 72K, I will remove 6K and so on. At least that’s the plan, might change tomorrow. 😛

    Personal Rules:
    1) Loss Limit – Sell when down 30-40% and under 6-8 weeks left. You must use your own a brain a bit, do some research, follow the market, etc – but mostly Follow the rule!

    2) Capital Preservation – Sell when up 45-55%, sell off 70% of holdings. Only exception are when price is spiking, particularly end of day and looks VERY promising for morning. This has been very good to me.

    3) I currently spend appx 2-3K per trade, depending on what will allow me to perform rule 2.

    Often I will go on either side of the recommended trade, to keep out of the fray and depending on price. Deeper in the money is always safest.

    I am NOT recommending my way for your way. I am NOT selling anything. I thought I would simply give you a real persons perspective of an on going actual trade strategy using the Banyan Hill Services. As for giving/selling/hinting at recommended trades, well I wouldn’t piss in the face of the others that pay big money for that info, and I wish anyone here would stop even thinking about it.

    btw – I also, me not you, forward every daily spam I get form Banyan, back to their private contact mail. I know they just trash it, but makes me feel better. I certainly am NOT going to sign up for the next best thing (for what to get the trading info I thought they were giving me already????) until I see a reason, meaning SHOW ME THE MONEY! Also, every month they ask me to write my opinion and I say the same thing – Talk to me when you place some skin in the game along with us plebs.

    btw2 – I was a full irregular member for many many years, until I moved a few months ago. Apparently I was on auto-renewal to a card I cancelled. Sorry Travis. I’ll get back on soon enough.

    Maxwell

  18. frank_n_steyn says:

    Just got a pitch from Bob Bauman from Banyan, and in it he claims Michael Carr has a success rate of 6,000 % in the last 3 years. With my trusty calculator in hand, a mere $25,000 portfolio in 2015 would now be worth $1,500,000. Quite a claim. Have any of you guys achieved that with him? Just asking ( I already know the answer.)

  19. kevinrawle says:

    I have been with Banyan hill for nearly a year. I bought a lot of their cheaper news letters to gain access to their model portfolios and created model portfolios to gage how well they really do.
    As of todays date: Sept 21st 2019 ,Ted Bauman’s portfolio is at 42% gain in 2019 – mostly dividend paying stocks, where as Paul Mampilly’s portfolio is at 28% for the year with growth stocks.
    I believe these people are well meaning, but their business model is sell newsletters to as many people as possible, in order to make profit.
    If you want huge gins you will have to pay them $5000 per year, with no guarantees or refunds – not a good deal in my view.
    I think that if you buy in to the Tech stocks promoted by Paul Mampilly and wait, eventually they will payoff ,as 5G is going to be huge – but you will have to buy allot of newsletters before they do pay off.
    I am planning to invest mostly in dividend funds and keep 25% of my portfolio for 5 g stocks.
    Will this work – who knows? The world is a very scary place and who knows what tomorrow brings…..

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