Alpha ContractsDoes anyone know what Agora Financial Alpha Contracts are? The subscription is $2000.00, no refund. They are also giving you a free HP chrome computer. They send you an Alpha Number that you then enter at your brokerage account and instantly get Thousands of dollars put in your account. Sounds like selling puts, also sounds totally ludicrous. Any ideas what this is about? Thanks Mary
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Sounds like bonds to me. I’ll save the $2000 and buy a bond with it.
I’d love to know as well!
Same question as above. I spent an hour listening and don’t know anymore than before. Having lost $5k since Janurary not in mood for a $2000 loss.
It says it’s not options. I also think it is bonds.
Gave it a quick listen. Alpha Contract? Never heard of it before and I’ve been in the business for over 40 years. Could be a term to obfuscate while collecting $2000 from people desperate to make money. I’m very suspicious. In any event, I don’t invest in anything that can’t be explained in terms of how much I have to invest and how much is at risk at any given time. I am especially wary of anyone who cherry picks the winners and says nothing about the losers. When in doubt, I believe the old saying: If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.
I watched the entire Alpha Contract Presentation and did not know any more after the presentation than when I had started, except Agora wanted my $2,000 on a no refund basis, UGH!
I searched Goog;le to learn what is an Alpha Contract and did not find anything but Agora’s $2,000 claim to fame on my pocketbook!
Furthermore, if the Alpha Contract was such a great deal and any average Joe or Mary Jane could do it, Agora should have conveniently offered a simple $39″iron-clad” limited 30 or 60 day refundable trial period to experience this bountiful advertised income opportunity.
In conclusion, it all sounded too easy to be true and overly risky for subscribers ( uh? allowing only… 1,000 subscribers to join, hmmm?
Many thanks for Stock Gumshoe website.
Now down to $1250. Maybe not getting enough punters.
Original pitch ‘when the slots are gone, they are gone”
looks like they are not “gone”
regards Les.
These alpha contacts are indeed bonds. The confusion becomes more because they never say how much to invest in order to realize the Income quoted.
Have you subscribed?
I called Agora and inquired about this Contract Income Alert. Spoke for 2o minutes with a Ben and then a Kristin.
They do say the service is buying discounted corporate bonds and said the example they gave made $55k on $35K for one year. They acknowledged that the service had no longterm track record. They recommended you have $40,000 per year to invest.
They described the nature of Bonds: buy at a discount, get a premium paid to you quarterly or semi-annually, then receive a lump-sum payment at maturity of the bond. They said the amount Zack recommends is priced at $100 per bond. They said you might not hold the bond to maturity.
I told them I had little money but genuine interest and if they could give me a discount on the advertised price. They said they have a price of $550 quarterly or an annual rate of $1250, but have a one-time lifetime rate of $1750 (advertised at $2000 for lifetime rate.)
I asked them about the types of companies/bonds, because all examples showed companies with declining price histories. They wouldn’t and couldn’t answer.
I asked them if I could share it with someone, and they said they just take care of orders, they dont deal with who you choose to share it with……. So if they dont care, how about 10 of us share the lifetime membership?
Did they tell you the length of a bond? Is it 1,2..5 year? When they said you may not hold it till maturity, does that mean there is a market to sell them like options or stocks?
I dont want to assume anything….. but I will assume there is a secondary market that we buy on and presumably can sell on.
Maybe call up and ask these questions: agora is 800 708 1020 or 410 454 0499.
Pls share your findings, thanks!
I’d be interested at 1/10th of the price.
Tgjames, David and Howard Phillips. I’m interested in sharing the cost. Not sure how we can connect. I guess you could message me on FB (LOL) or email me at liondanielle@aol.com. Make sure you have Alpha Contracts of Agora Financial written in the “topic”.
Did you find your 10? I’m interested. Any more info?
So we have Howard, David, and myself interested….. anyone else? I encourage others to call (800 708 1020 or 410 454 0499) and ask penetrating questions about the newsletter and pls let us know here….
I am interested! Been researching this on Google. No info. Until I found this site.
How can I get in touch with you?
did you get my eddress, JamesAssoc@aol.com ?
interesting idea… I’m down with sharing a lifetime membership with 9 others…
I am interested in a 10th, let me know.
They are buying junk bonds, which is below investment grade. Therefore, banks and or insurance companies are not allowed to invest money.
I would think so as well. It is the same reason that they do partial unit sales to public sometimes at us$1000/unit contract. Yet, they must be master broker to get their fees from the Bond issuers..
That actually makes sense.
I was just wondering the same thing. When I tried to google some of the things I found, I ran into some links about “repos” and FICC. On Schwab.com I searched for contracts FICC and got a message, “Did you mean FDIC?” uh, no. Of course the thousands of dollars…probably depends on how much you have to invest in the first place.
By the way you can buy a brand new 11″ Chromebook computer (which they are giving away with this offer) for less than $200.
And I doubt that that nominal “freebie” would get sent to me at a discounted lifetime subscription rate of $1750…… I am still curious.
Stansberry has a similar service on discounted corporate bonds with good success, but they are straight up about what it is. Stansberry says once you trade bonds, you’ll never medd with stocks again…I agree.
How much does Stansberry charge?
3000$ per year
have you subscribed to credit opportunities of stansberry reasrch?
I could be persuaded to be one of the 10. How’s it going? Any more info?
I’d like to know as well. From what I read no investment was necessary but then he said the more you put in the more you could get. Sounds like it too good to be true. This is the second time I’ve seen this. Can anyone shed some light on this.
I would like to be one of the 10 to go in on this.
ok, it looks like we have 4 of the 10 with you, Ben. Let’s see who else wants to join….
I’d like to join too.
I ‘d like to be 1 of 10
I would like to try it as well!
I wonder how much money you need to start, sopunds like a lot.
Read my findings, above posted. And call Stansbury for more info……
I am interested in being one of 10 in the Alpha Contracts offer.
Interested in being one of the 10
Looks like there is exactly 10 of us, we could do an email thread? FB closed/secret group?