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Alan Knuckman
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Agora Financial
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Trading system using options to speculate on “profit windows”
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I wish someone would say something in the next ten minutes about this
Wish I could have helped you out 8 months ago! (See my reply today.)
New newsletter but any information on Alan Knuckman who is the author of the newsletter ?
Wish I could have helped you out 8 months ago! (See my reply today.)
Any advice on this article. Thanks.
Wish I could have helped you out 8 months ago! (See my reply today.)
Option plays (volatility) based upon quarterly earnings releases.
I just read some reviews about his weekly one and they were bad – seems it’s options based
As of 1/27/2018 they are claiming all closed trades have been winners. I wonder if they are failing to consider expired options as closed trades. Certainly they should.. If ANY of their trades failed to materialize a gain it would necessarily result in either an expiration or a closed trade with a loss. I guess nothing has ever gone against them ???!!!
Yes correct… They are not counting the options recs that expired worthless, because they weren’t able to close out an option that doesn’t have a bid!!! I call
B.S. on that! Don’t fall for it…
Wish I could have helped this thread out 8 months ago! (See my reply today.)
absolutely, things have gone against them. Look at the Apple Options play just last week; recommended January 26 call with strike price of 175 and a limit of $5.00. It never went very much above $5 and quickly turned into a loss, going all the way to zero. It Expired worthless. Even though Alan said he was watching this stock very carefully, no mention was made of the downturn , nor when to get out.[ information that subscribers paid for and he promised]. Most alarming is that no mention was made of the trade , at all, in the Friday weekly review. Like it never happened. Look, I don’t expect to win on every trade, especially with something like options, that inherently carry greater risk; no one can predict the future. However , I do expect the advisory service , i.e. Alan Knuckman, with all his experience and knowledge to give me a heads up and help me limit my exposure. I bought into the “lifetime” membership, something I never do! I feel like I’m on my own. I will use the service as a reference. I have made money with other trades, recommended by Alan. There are many trades that do seem to be successful, or is it that Alan simply doesn’t list or refer to any losses? so our perception is totally skewed? Seems that way. Only doing this a few months. Not risking money I can’t afford to lose. Learning as much as I can about options. Trying to have fun with it. Don’t believe Alan’s a complete fraud, though most of the articles and services on Agora Financial do sound too good to be true and appear to be scams.
old enough to know better
Thank you for your post. I didn’t subscribe to his service but your real world experience affirms some of my most important concerns.
I’m old enough to know better too, sadly. I bought into the service in mid January ’18. All the recommendations were calls, of course, and all the calls went south. ONE trade, only, was a break-even. The system Alan uses to choose his recommendations is sadly deficient. If it really worked, do you think he’d share it with us?
Jeff, you made the best comment: “If it really worked, do you think he’d share it with us?” But then many of us (including me) fell for it!!
I searched on his name and found an accuracy rate of 54%. It is a fabulous sales piece with language that makes you want to borrow $2K so you can lose it. They really know how to get to your credit card thru your emotional, not rational mind.
Alan Knuckman is a TOTAL FRAUD and Agora Financial promotes him big time. As of 2/2/18 he claims a perfect record of 22 winners closed. His current portfolio has 8 winners and 7 losers. Some are big losers. He recommends holding all of the losers and makes no recommendation of selling to close any of them to cut losses.
His list of closed recommendations are all positive because his advice keeps losers until they expire with no value and his subscribers lose 100%. Because he doesn’t close negative recommendations, they don’t show up on his closed list and he doesn’t publish a list of his expired recommendations. Totally fraudulent.
Using his system, a chimpanzee could throw darts and accomplish the same consecutive winners record. You just make losers disappear.
I would have made a LOT of money if I had bought puts in every case he recommended calls. As it turns out, and sadly, the opposite is true. Out of 20 or so trades, ONE was break-even; ALL the rest were losers. My average loss was 51.2%. I would have been SO much better off simply flushing the subscription fee for 42 Day retirement down the toilet.
Agora? Scammers all!! Run AWAY!
They now are showing losses of 98, 99, and 100% on more recent positions
My advice for everyone is to pass on anything coming out of Agora. They are long on wild hyperbole and short on positive results. Most of their marketing is deceptive at best and this “42 Day Retirement” is a perfect example. I don’t know if anyone has noticed but Agora, along with a host of other questionable trading services companies now no longer offer money back refunds for any of their “premium” services. What they offer instead is the promise of an extra year of the particular service if it doesn’t perform to expectations. Obviously such a “guarantee” costs them nothing. The presenter of this particular “42 Day Retirement” program makes a big deal about how the company is demonstrating their faith in the program by “risking” $1.3million dollars on their additional year of service “guarantee.” The truth is they risk nothing while you shoulder 100% of the risk as you lose your subscription fee (usually $2,000 – $3,000) with no chance of ever seeing your money again no matter how bad the service is. This “industry” shift has shown up more and more over the past couple of years. Even Oxford is doing it now. I believe it came about because the vast majority of the systems and services companies like Agora, Moneymap Press etc. offered were/are garbage and too many people were demanding their money back. They want your money and once they have it, they don’t want to give it back. They are expert at deceptive hyperbole and the reality is they have no regard for their subscribers. Agora makes their money off subscription fees, not from actual trading. Caveat Emptor definitely applies. Never subscribe to a service that does not offer a money back guarantee. That’s one of the biggest red flags there is.
Agora is indeed interested only in collecting subscription fees. If they manage to make a good investment recommendation, that’s mere coincidence. I got nothing but losses by using them and would have done far better flushing my subscription cost down the toilet. One of their newest services, “42-Day Retirement” recommends option trades based on their “proprietary algorithm” being able to recognize insider trading. One problem is that they only recommend purchasing call options, which are great if the market is only climbing. Unfortunately, I decided to try the service starting mid-January ’18 with the market at its recent peak. Of course, the call option recommendations just kept on coming. Here are my purchases and results as of 4/23/18: MNST -92.7%, TWTR -42.4%, ABX -61%, APA -56.7%, BB – 65.3%, CSCO -21.6%, FAST -80.6%, FEYE +8.5%, FL -91.4%, KO -24.8%, MOS – 52.5%, NUAN -46.6%, ORCL – 88.8%, PBR -24.8%. Besides these, I bailed out on some losers before they might get worse, and some options expired worthless. Do you see a pattern here? Run from these greedy bumblers as fast as you can!
Imagine if you had only bought put options on all of their recommendations…
Until a April 12, 2018 I was a subscriber to Alan Knuckman’s “42 Day Retirement.” During my 3 month trial subscription beginning mid-January, I lost a ridiculous amount of money by following Alan Knuckman’s recommendations. The trades I’ve been able to get into within the “buy” guidelines have resulted in huge losses up to this point; the
majority of recommendations lost significant value either immediately after I purchased them or after the first subsequent earnings report. The one exception was AMD, which gave me a small profit on half my position (I sold the remaining half for a balancing loss, which turned out to have been a good strategy). Here are ALL of my results as of one month ago: ABX -65%, APA -77%, BB -3%, CSCO -37%, FAST -29%, FL -64%, TWTR -37%, MNST -87%, GS -72%, KO -42%, LULU -16%, MOS -61% NUAN -16% ORCL -83% HPQ -79%. I have all the trade details in my files. Results as of today or no better on average. Some options have expired worthless (or I sold them near-worthless); others have simply degraded due to their loss of time value. I’m currently stuck with a bunch of options while cut off from the 42 Day Retirement Service.
I’ve asked for a chance to get out of this predicament, with a possibility of recovering some of my losses. Specifically, I requested an additional 3 months of the service at no cost to me. My request has been repeatedly denied. Agora hasn’t even been sympathetic about a track record of over 90% disastrous recommendations.
How i wished i have checked the review online before signing up for the 42 Day Retirement Plan. I will write my thoughts in point form for easy reading.
– I was a subscriber to the above plan from Feb to April 2018.
-Once signed up and paid, any question i have there was NO REPLY whatsoever.
-I lost about USD $4k following their recommendations. I am not looking to retire in 42 days but never did i expect to lose so much money . Lucky i only bought 1 or 2 contracts for most of the options otherwise the lost will be more
– Every time they closed a winning trade, they will go full blast into marketing their winning. But little did the public know, once u became a subscriber and logged into the system, out of the 18 options purchased during this period, 10 options are in the RED and money losing toward the end of the options.
-I will never trust any plans from Agora Financial again.NEVER.
– I was very pissed when i received one of their marketing email and i have copied and pasted what i wrote back for all of you here to see. I have wrote my comment in ((())) besides each of their marketing words.
We are leaving without you, YW
Hey YW
We are leaving without you.
((((How i wish you just leave me alone in the first place!!! Since signing up, it have been many months of bad mood seeing the portfolio in RED and recent BIG breakdown due to option nearing and almost all the options are not moving in the profit direction. Esp the FAST option which have dropped more than 60% recently after the earning date. My portfolio is losing USD 5500 on paper and i can see it becoming a reality with most of the options nearing expiration. I have attached my account information to prove.))))
I’ve pitched this idea so many dang times…
((((This is how i am tricked into signing up in the first place))))
Yet I still haven’t heard from you. ((((Yes you heard from me.Good job to your marketing!))))
You do realize the 42- Day Retirement Plan is the best product in the history of Agora Financial, right?
Alan Knuckman has gone 27 for 27 on his closed trades since launching in October.
(((((Yes i have to agree this is the BEST marketing words but this is downright lying. Instead of 100% win, the actual fact that your win is only about 50%. Once subscriber signed up and logged into your system, they will see more than 15 trades are in the RED. And if this is the best product in the history of Agora, then (see below sentence) I don’t know what else to say….)))))
I don’t know what else to say…
Do you want the opportunity to make money or not?!
((((Do you want the opportunity to LOSE money or not?! My portfolio is losing USD $5500. The only win i walk away so far is the LULU option. I did not buy GS, AKAM and NUAN because of the tremendous fear of losing more money and at that time i was left with little to buy. Most of my money are being tied up in the losing options.)))))
Because this is your last chance.
(((((Last chance of being a stay at home mum with a special need kid. Because of losing money following all your recommendation dutifully, i have no choice but to go back to work. I signed up with modest/humblest intention of earning a few hundred pocket money every month. I am not a greedy person looking to retire in 42 days.Never did i expect to lose so much money. This is TOO MUCH.))))))
His broadcast is being taken off of the web at MIDNIGHT tonight.
You can get access by clicking here.
If you choose to click off of the window, that’s fine- it’s your decision.
But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
(((((Let me warn you. If i don’t get a refund, i am going to duplicate this email and splash across the internet.))))
You could be up $220k like Vincent R from Miami… ((((((Are you sure?? ))))))
Or like Bert from Augusta who wrote in saying he’s up $400k… (((((Are you sure??)))))
Or Jan who is up $75k total… (((((Are you sure?? )))))
This strategy is no joke… (((((How i wish my portfolio in RED is a joke.)))))
These folks succeed all because they got out of their comfort zone…
(((((Yes i got out of my comfort zone by signing up. Prior to signing up, i have NEVER trade any stock and option because i knew how hard it was for ordinary folk like us to earn money from the market. So i went all the troubles (2 weeks) to set up my first brokerage account,remit money from overseas (i am based in Asia) and getting approval to trade option.))))))
I think you have what it takes to be like one of them… So what’s stopping you?
(((((((Nothing stop me. I gave my full trust to your strategy and put in USD 16,000 into my brokerage account to buy options. Due to time zone different, I even do not mind waking up late hour to trade Alan alert.))))))
If the program isn’t for you… Just close the window, no one is making you do anything.
((((((I closed the window many times yet your marketing email keep coming back to haunt me. Once you closed one winning trade, your marketing team went full blast again.But unknowingly to the public, behind the closed door, out of the 27 closed trades, 15 of them are in the RED. This is unethical for the damaged you caused to me ( i am sure other folks also) emotionally and financially. Your marketing is MISLEADING.))))))
I have had success with Alan’s Weekly Wealth Alert publication which then prompted me to try this one. This one has proven to be a waste of money with only a 42.9% win rate and average returns per trade of -18.2%.
90 plus trades with a NET LOSS with Alan in his 3 options programs. More winners than losers but the losers are significantly higher losses (80 -90 -100%) with considerably smaller gains on the winners. -Overall I have lost thousands on a net basis after 90 plus trades. I have been optimistic with him BUT the results are in…LOST THOUSANDS with Alan
I second Bob’s experiences. That’s why I wish I found Gumshoe long before I did!
I got in about Sep 2018 and was up $30K by Thanksgiving. Once the brisk bull-run concluded I was stuck holding lots of losers – with several going to $0 – and of course the service virtually never recommends “sell to close” advice until way too late. After about a year I’m out the subscription plus another $4-5K.
42 day Retirement is not worth buying, more losses then winners. I have all of the services Agora offers non are worth buying, stay away from them.
I lost 15K to this clown