Chris Rowe’s services, Sector Focus, Sector Prophet and/or Technical Analysis MillionaireChris Rowe has advertised his ”Sector Focus” newsletter. Go to:
*. https://www.truemarketinsiders.com/order/content/sforderformspecial?utm_ad=436&utm_medium=ded&utm_source=SI&utm_campaign=sfoffer&utm_expid=.a3Zxhi92S1adnQgmeMpUog.1&utm_referrer=&ra_effort=transcript-b
* http://www.truemarketinsiders.com/product/sector_focus
Has anyone subscribed to any of Chris’ newsletter? He also has these other services:
* Sector Prophet
* Technical Analysis Millionaire
Interested in your response.
Thanks,
Burton
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Interested in sector focus, too. For $80/yr not too bad if it’s any good?
On 8/21/2018, saw the following:
1 Year Subscription $168 $49
$168 $49 (You Save 71%)
-Exclusive Market & Sector Analysis
-Featured Sector of the Month Videos
-FREE Premium Sampler
-LIVE online events
-Private Members-Only Website Access
-30-Day, 100% Money Back Guarentee
And what do you got ??
Absolutely no track record….just a newsletter with a lot of hyperbole. The fact that it is only $80/year is not a reason to subscribe because if the picks are bad, you lose money. There is no way you are going to get similar returns to JP Morgan. That would be nice but it’s simply a hook to have you purchase their newsletter. Who wouldn’t want 99% winners for a cheap $80/year? Folks, not a snow balls chance in hell this newsletter is going to make you money. I can almost guarantee just the opposite.
Well, it has a 30-day money back guarantee, so for the adventurous entrepreneur such as myself, I think it is worth trying, especially since I am perfectly capable of analyzing his trades to see if I want to enter it or pass, always using sound risk management practices along the way. You won’t know until you try it. I joined one publication for example 2 years ago that recommends one conservative, detailed trade a month (your choice of buy/write CALLs or writing PUTs) for $49/year, and it has made me $1,850 so far on the 11 trades that I have taken (no losers).
What’s the name of the options service Rob?
That one is Personal Finance / Investing Daily by Jim Fink. The ones I take is his Personal Finance once a month detailed trades.
I also subscribed to Jim Fink Personal Finance, got two years for $79.00 back in March 2018. Once a month e-mail with good info on a stock. There are details for a covered call/ buy and write/ Put sell. Have only done two of the trades, made my money on both (more than paid subscription on first trade), utilizing the Put sell recommendation, but not at the strike price suggested (I went a little more conservative). Seems like the trade recommendation is about 2 months out – example; Oct recommendation is for December 21st date.
Will not renew due to infrequency of the trade recommendation, but not complaining as getting what I paid for. If you are not an active trader, this subscription has good info to start your own research and due diligence. Informative website.
Thanks for the details Joe (I was too lazy I guess to expand, 🙂 ). I agree with everything Joe said about the Jim Fink program: my hardest part is finding his email alert in time buried in my inbox. BTW, I usually close his trades much earlier for much higher returns and much less risk.
So did you buy it and if you did what happened
Hi Rob, Did you like Chris Rowe’s service
Anyone bite on the $79 Sector Focus letter?
Someone with a 20+ year track record offering:
Exclusive Market & Sector Analysis-Featured Sector of the Month Videos -FREE Premium Sampler-LIVE online events, and all for $79 per annum (price guaranteed for life). What’s the catch?
2,000 subscribers paying $79 is a good income for a small amount of work. over $100,000 net
after expenses
This is the bait for the higher cost
Premium Sampler – Once a month we’ll treat you to a taste of one of our high-end products. It could be a complimentary pass to an exclusive live web event… a free trade alert (complete with entry, exit, and “pay up to” instructions).
I have just subscribed to Sector Focus because I thought it would save me time and help me to face the markets in the right directions.
Looking at the presentation and logging into the portal and looking at current features I quickly sensed that
A: CR knows what he is doing
B: loves what he is doing
C: has a well thought out valid approach to pinpoint where to invest
D: even if the recommendation were not correct (I do not know it yet) the information on which area of the market to focus on is well worth
the subscription.
I have been an investor for over 50 yrs and I think I can separate the wheat from the chaff.
Their guidance on sector rotation and positioning within sectors is useful for me. I am not considering using their more expensive products.
I am not affiliated with these people in any way.
Are the recommendations optionable?
All the stocks they follow are optionable but not in a way an active swing/options trader would approach it.
Basically it is position trading. Buying a deep in the money option on a promising stock ETF. The most dynamic stocks when they are emerging don’t have liquid option markets yet so entering them can be costly. Of course if the recommendation works out the expense of getting in or out matters little. People not experienced in option trading should buy the stocks outright or on margin and not touch options.
I would say the benefit of the service is proportionately related to one’s level of trading skill. Main value is that is a realistic proven method that will work in the future too because it is deriving the decision from the metrics provided by market /sector/group/stock data.
Still, if one has no or little experience in investing in trading has little chance to gain a lot because costly mistakes in allocating funds and executing trades will trip one up.
Unfortunately they are no shortcuts, either one personally knows an ace trader or one has to become competent through education.
SF is a very good educational tool because it is based on solid and creative practice and the crew is sending out supporting stream of ideas and educational content.
Perennial … how are you faring with CR thus far?
I subscribed back in September of 2019. I was really skeptical at first considering that I came across it in an ad. I am now taking his Technical Analysis Millionaire course. I agree with your analysis, and would also at the very least recommend subscribing to Sector Focus if you are serious about investing.
Ive joined up to Sector Focus & i would say Chris Rowe & Costas Bocelli are the real deal. I like the professional evaluation of what the market is doing & they are great at explaining whats happening & with back up info to prove it. Ive compared the tip offs they have given out & so far its a thumbs up.
I would join again no problem.
How have you done so far, Stephen?
Yes Steve what is the rake?
Sounds interesting, how are the results so far for those who have subscribed?
Sector focus is very inexpensive & you also get tips which are actionable. Some of the top offs go very well. They can help you to become an informed trader. Still you ned to learn as much as possible the stock market is a minefeild.
What about Sector Prophet Pro, has anyone purchased this? A yearly subscription sells for $1494.
I am a long term fan of Chris Rowe and company. I purchased Technical Analysis Millionaire when it first came out in the early 2000’s. Take a look at his bio on his True Market Insider’s site to learn that he has been an inside player off and on, and the TAM course (it is a course, not a newsletter or stock picking service) reflects the insider techniques he uses to pick stocks and trade options. The process is so overwhelming that it would be a full time job to do it all yourself, so his other newsletters and services do it for you at extra cost. I’ve used some of the basics when picking my own stocks over the years, and his info has been helpful in timing buys. In general I follow NAIC (www.betterinvesting.org), which is based upon the teachings of Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffet’s mentor.
I recently bought CheckPoint Trader and just last week pulled the trigger on my first ever option trades. On Oct 1, near the market’s closing bell, I bought 1 call for $1717, 2 calls of another stock for total of $668, and a third call for $272. In fairness to Chris I won’t give away the stocks! The next day the market crashed what, 500 points in the Dow! I thought crap, what lousy timing, I should have waited one more day. But how wrong I was! The $1717 option actually went up a little, the 2 options went up a couple hundred bucks, and only the $272 option declined to about $225. They all gained on Friday as the market rebounded. The $1717 option is now close to $1800, the 2 options have jumped up to $1200, and the lone loser is $5 below break even.
I don’t expect this good run of 22% gain in two days to continue, but my options career is off to a good start!
I know nothing of what the Sector Focus newsletter contains, but I can guess that it keeps an eye on which sectors the institutions are buying and selling, since that is a major part of his technique. I do subscribe to Sector Prophets Pro, which is a service that takes the work out of the TAM course by condensing everything, including sector recommendations, into an easy format to use. Sector Prophets does provide specific stocks and ETF’s to buy.
Hope that takes some of the mystery out of what Chris and company sell! I have seen a photo of Chris posing in the White House with George Bush, which may give him a little more credibility as I doubt the WH would invite a known shyster.
I’m interested in the next Proctor and Gamble of the pot industry they are talking about. Namely the Canadian company making contracts with Latin America companies to get a foothold in a 300 billion plus market . If anyone has an idea of the company they are speaking about I’d appreciate it plus any thoughts on it.Thanks
Thoughts and feed back on Profit Skimmer with Chris and Costas. Anyone joined the service and used their picks? Making money or just another scam like the rest of them? It’s too hard to decipher and to costly ($$$$) to weed out the scams, half truths from the good ones. I want to be able to increase my $$$ and not have it scammed away.
Profit skimmer is hosted by Costas Bocelli. Its short term trading vertical spreads. Costas does a 1 hr + live video bi weekly, in which he basically does top to bottom market analysis. Also goes over all active trades & you can type in questions & he will answer them. I like the service & you can learn something about options trading, he gives his opinions based on analysis & experiance. He will be the first to admit, some trade are losers but many are winners. With proper risk management you can stay in the game & not get wiped out. You will need margin account (in Canada anyways) since spreads are level 2. He sends out alerts by text or e-mail between 3- 6 per month.
I am not an active options trader, but not a truly green newbie. I have found the $77 I paid for Costas’ option course well worth the money. It also has some great option pricing tools. I have taken his advice on 4 trades so far. Three have been great, and in excess of 53% over a couple of weeks. I have one trade not in the money, and closes on 5/15/2020. I expect this to be a loser….is moving in right direction. However, so far I like the vertical trades that Chris recommends. Right now I’m trying to figure out the more expensive Check Point Chris Rowe is pitching. Is it worth $2000. Is it, finding the right company and “rolling up” option trades? I don’t take big risks, so keep my positions on the smaller size, so how long would the payback be on $2000.
I joined profit skimmer with Costas Bocelli back in April and got 6 consecutive losers, mostly call recommendations that were not hedged. Than back in June he recommends buying August SPY puts at maximum price which lost 100% The guy is a total joke and I didn’t realize he had a 1 star ranking on tip ranks before signing up for his service. I did get a few winners from Chris Rowe on the less expensive service and think he may be more legitimate but I think he tends to give you trades that are at or close to overbought levels. Pretty easy to recommend something already up 20 to 30 %
I started in July. I’ve lost tons of money on Profit Skimmer picks. Buy a vertical spread… watch it bounce around then go to zero. The shorts go up and the longs go down. I don’t know how he makes money. In fairness, one the picks I couldn’t get into, and that one ended up being a decent winner. (Though another I didn’t get into was another loser.)
I like him and Chris Rowe and really thought this would work out. Not so. Sector Focus has been worth it though.
i was also interested in subscribing to the sector focus service, so i came here to get some insight from other subscribers. there doesn’t seem to be any actual results from other subscribers, so this was mostly a wasted trip. but i do want to share something with others who might be tempted to subscribe. i found a lengthy post on seeking alpha that was written by the author of this sector focus newsletter – chris rowe. the post was made on 3/31/2016. he gives a very detailed analysis of why he thinks the market rally in february and march of 2016 was not real, and how he expected a significant and lengthy bear market to be coming soon. what followed was a 20-month increase in the s&p 500 of nearly 750 points. that doesn’t really give me a warm fuzzy feeling about the accuracy of his analysis.
My thoughts go a little dark on all these so called trading recommendation services. Mostly I wonder if they are taking third trades from a whale that is doing the exact opposite of what they recommend and getting payed both ways.
One thing they all do is lie about entry and exit points. You will never get the exit price they recommend and unless it’s a falling knife you won’t get their entry point. The general question is why would these companies want you to be on the same side of a trade they are making? Most of these services need to throughly investigated and back fined.
I am subscribing to Sector Focus only which is definitely worth the price but I am just about ready to cancel my subscription because of the barrage of nausiating promotional emails from them.
Some subscribers are complaining that they are not able to get into trades at specified price levels. One of the reasons may be that there is a conflict of interest as Chris Row is a money manager. The fact that he is managing other people’s money is mentioned but I have never seen a spoken or written statement that they do not front-run customer recommendations. Taking a position before they recommend a stock to the public is illegal but difficult to prove . When I was a floor trader in my younger years we were not allowed to trade our own account if we handled customer orders . Since I traded only for my own account I was not subjected to this rule. So what did people do? They opened an account in a relative’s name and they funneled profits from ripping off customers into those accounts. These were affectionately referred to as mother-in-law accounts.
Sector focus is a good way to start learning about how the market works. Chris & Costas give alternate newsletters detailing what is happening in the stock market & finish up giving tips of promising trades from their analysis program Sector profits Pro. Its certainly worth the money in my books. Of course to be successful at trading takes a lot , but this gets you moving in the right direction.
Folks, and all you would be millionaires,
I have been through the wars, scarred, wounded and crippled; but still fighting.
If you are willing to pay for advice you have not learned enough. Personal education
is the key to investing or trading. Newsletters, subscriptions and the like is a business
model and very easy to earn money. Without being negative I will mention one such
model. Agora publishing is an umbrella and has at least 12 sub affiliates. You can
research it. The Oxford Club, Sperry Research, Money Map Press, etc. Money Map
Press, for example, has close to twenty three “gurus” eager to take your money via
more subscriptions and service. Some have more than one newsletter of trading
secrets. Sometimes, when bad advice is so overwhelming they are mentioned on
ripoffreport.com.
No one can predict stock movement with total accuracy. A coin flip is as good as
a prediction. A stock goes up, down, or sideways for a short period of time. There
are numerous financial services, for a price. Their business model hardly has a
down side other than overhead, unlike an investor or trader. So, I believe the owners
earn most of their money by selling a service rather than following their own advice.
Here is my advice, and it is FREE. I am an option trader. I don’t buy based on
perceived movement of the underlying stock. I sell puts in a bull market in the form
of credit spreads. I trade so far out of the money that only a market crash would
hurt that trade. I let the options expire worthless, I keep the credit. Some would
say that is a “rinse and repeat” process. It works! If I want a bigger payday I increase
the number of contracts. A margin account is required. So, there it is–educate
yourself rather than relying on a paid service of information.
Happy Trading
Cecil Batts
Is it a good time to sell puts and where do you suggest I get reference on how to sell put options, Thanks for the info!
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I have been subscribed to Sector Focus since 2016. I get in because I saw Chris Rowe on television and someone I thought was smart said he’s smart or something I forget. Re: Sector Focus, Individual investors usually want very basic stuff (I know because I’m a financial advisor).
So listen up if you’re reading this Chris Rowe and Costas Bocelli (they co-author). I understand you are actually money managers or I think Costas is but Chris definitely is and Costas traded as a floor trader in Philly Exchange.
I get that you named this company True Market Insiders because you are saying the true market is the internal market. THis, alone, is a concept that most people probably tune out because they usually won’t take the time to learn about this. You say the media has us all focusing on the wrong thing (S&P, DOW etc).
The “mistake” I think you guys make is you explain everything that’s going on and many people want the very short and very sweet. I saw you recently changed the format so the trade and investment ideas are at the top of the articles so we can cut to the chase. THANK YOU.
So these guys invest using sector rotation and relative strength which are clearly winning strategies – if you google around you’ll see that for yourself. This is the main reason I like sector focus. Because it’s a strategy I know works. And all of their other services give both entry and exit (sell) alerts but the problem is they are priced much higher. I can afford it but not everyone can so maybe do something about price. I think for the lower priced stuff (Sector Focus) they give entry only. at least that’s what I’ve gathered But I’ve made a shit ton of money from it. I’ve found Chris to be the most honest person in the business as far as I can tell. Costas I’m confident in but the desire to do well for us is felt when Chris writes to us.
THE NEGATIVE
The negatives is that there’s usually a lot – it’s not super simplified.
LET ME BE CLEAR I know it comes from good intentions Both Chris and Costas want us to be better traders so they explain a lot of context of the market. the most recent big calls I remember was September 2018 Chris wrote a LOT about the market topping out. This is a good example. He wrote three issues to say “the market is topping out”. He gave lots of bearish trades that made me lots of money, like all of them made money. I wish he recommended techstocks for bearish but he re3commended the defensive stocks like Kraft saying they will go down. These stocks went down but not as much as the others like tech stocks. He said the cyclicals were already overbought because defensive something something I don’t remember. So we made money when the stock market got hammered in last 2018. But we could have and should have made a killing so that made me mad.
He explained it to the point I was dizzy. He talked about international stuff. he talked about technical analysis. He talked about what the big institutional investors were doing. He talked about the 4-year presidential election cycle and that 2018 was mid-term year which always gets crushed in the end of the year. He talked about which stock marke taverage was the best to short… just too much stuff I didn’t need. He also sometimes writes the first half of the analysis one day and the second a few days later.
I hope this helps. The service is the best I have ever gotten for so cheap. But I wish he would write 1/3 as much. I am not training to become a hedge fund manager. I am not in college learning how to invest. I just want them to say “do this today because the sector is making lots of money” and “Sell it now because this sector sucks now”.
Hi track record in another service I use Deep Trader is 24 winners 4 losers and I’ve gotten in all of them. I also traded from his free thing True Market Insider (its investment newsletter for free and its name of the company he works for too).
If you’re really a “do it yourself investor” then you sign up for the charting service Sector Prophets. His other services are just giving you the exact trade ideas that he comes up with but you can use his strategy by yourself like create your own trade ideas fro mthe same place that he gets them from – Sector prophets. (different from Sector Focus)
It’s been just over three months since I first checked into this Chris Rowe conversation. As I said back in early Oct 2019 I was not a subscriber to Sector Focus but I do subscribe to the much higher priced Sector Prophets Pro and CheckPoint Trader services. I have become too lazy to do my own research these days, and since CheckPoint Trader (CPT) started me off with some relatively small, but meaningful gains, I ended up subscribing to another of Chris’ services, Deep Market Trader (DMT) for a little more action!
CPT is basically a put and call option service where you buy the recommended option good for a few months out, and roll into farther out options well before the original option starts to rapidly lose its time value (entrinsic value). On the monthly anniversary of each recommendation Chris writes a little blurb about what to do if you presently hold a position, and what to do if you are new and want to join in. About every third anniversary I end up “banking” some profit while rolling out to a new month, or at least that is about what I’ve experienced.
DMT is a little different. Chris will recommend buying a particular put or call, or if more conservative you can just buy or short the stock outright. There are no anniversaries, but these are generally long term holding periods if the stock performs as expected, so the options will be rolled out as needed. A recommendation to sell is issued when Chris deems the move to be coming to an end, or things don’t move in the right direction at all.
I have taken all but one CPT and DMT options trade recommended over that past 3.5+ months (no stocks, only options) and I did go back and purchase trades that were recommended up to a month before I started both services. I think I have only passed on one recommendation because I just didn’t want to sink $17,000 into one option, Amazon, and that one ended up going the wrong direction anyway.
Without taking the Amazon option, I’d say a $15-$20,000 account would easily cover the purchase of one option per recommendation of both services, although I eventually bought one or two more of the well under $1000 options so their performance would be a closer match to the more expensive options. To date the highest priced option I’ve purchased was $5470, and it was closed out about three weeks later at a $2300+ profit. Out of ten closed or rolled over trades, there are eight winners and two losers. The losers amounted to a total of $435, and were the result of having to put in that much more for a farther out replacement option. Total banked gain is presently $7616, or a 38% gain on a $20k account in 3.5 months and I still have about $20k in open positions, some of which is unrealized profit.
Will I be sticking with these services? For now, absolutely, but only time will tell what the next bear market will bring. Chris does say he makes money no matter which way the market is headed, but my main worry is the frantic chaos I may have to go through as the markets reverse direction in a big way.
Not related to the above, but did anyone pay any attention to the ad that came with Travis’ January 19, 2020 weekend update titled “Palm Beach Millionaire Stuns Live Audience” along with “The audience GASPED when he revealed how you could collect 100% on your savings every year… for life”?
Well, I had to bite just to see what kind of BS was being pushed, and gave up early on in the video when I checked out the first stock mentioned. Marc Lichtenfeld, of The Oxford Club, started by pushing Arlington Asset Investment Corp. (NYSE: AI) as a $5000 investment paying well over $7000 in dividends annually without options or leverage. Yahoo Finance told me that really was BS, as the stock was presently at $5.72 per share and paying .90 cents a year in divy’s. Looking at the long term chart, the stock has gone from well over $500 per share to its present price, and is steadily creeping down. That sure looked like a good way to lose my entire retirement account, not a way to double it every year from dividends! Did I not watch enough of the BS video to learn the well kept secret? Why in the world would Travis sign on to advertise this? https://pro.oxfordclub.com/p/EXTREMETO79BRKLTBRK2YRDSTOTTOTLTNMT/LBRKW139/?h=true
I had tried Options in the past , and needless to say was not that successful at trading them. As a senior I look for services that give me simple stock picks , and i have found 2 that are profitable for me. https://learn.traderspro.com/product-page and the other is https://www.falconstocks.com/ Check Falcon’s Performance Page ……amazing! I subscribe to both newsletters after cancelling a few others I had!
I am totally unbiased as I have no connection with either company! Take a look, and I know you will like what you see. I actually use Traderspro to analyze stock tips from falcon!
Hey GG … what you wrote above really resonated with me and I checked it out/like your approach in using both services. It appears this strategy has served you well … have you been using it for long and what has your total return been?
Question. Which would you recommend SF or Falconstocks in your experience?
I got in Sector Focus (attached to True Market Insiders) about two weeks ago for that relatively cheap price of $79 and just got out yesterday because the amount of CLICK BAIT that suddenly started originating from them in their associates promoting more expensive plans was obnoxious. How can they treat paying subscribers like that? Awful. I expected some service, or more insights, but got nothing but general, irritatingly long promos.
And I went to two of their “webinars” which were actually recordings, with no one live responding in the comments section as far as I could tell, which ALSO were only about pitching the next product.
The promo that finally did it for me yesterday from Chris Rowe himself had the subject “Sorry for the glitch – we’re processing your credit now.” The text then apologized for some system glitch that had made it difficult for people to get their $1500. We could get it by following a link….. which was just another promo with a $1500 discount!!!
And this Costas Bocelli hype? All hyperbole and more clickbait.
I wouldn’t touch any of their stuff just for this level of disrespect and over-marketing.
I have tried approximately 250 stock/option services over the years. There were some great ones but most most were not as advertised , and performance for the majority mediocre at best!
Finally I have latched on to a real winner which has given me some nice profits!
They closed their first trade on 1/15/20…..so it is a relatively NEW service. The service is called “Sunrise Profits” and is run by Greg Guenthner ! Their last closed trade was on 6/5/20 for a 59% Gain. There are 30 closed trades so far. Highest GAIN was + 109% , and largest LOSS was -66%
Had you invested $10,000 into each trade and closed when instructed (Trades are not held long! Your $10,000 would now be worth $74,300 excluding all commission costs and fees. So $74,000 -$10,000 = $64.300……not a bad profit for about 6 months!
I got a tip from the newsletter to buy WKHS when it was trading at $2.62. It is now over $17. Well worth the $79 a year.
I just subscribed to Sector Focus by Chris Rowe. He has a lot of videos and explains his method but everything he gives points you to another offer you need to sign up for. None of the publication offers show up. I can unsubscribe with a refund and I will do that.