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Broad option trading service, buying and selling puts and calls.
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MOTLEY FOOL OPTION SERVICE. Their suggestions consist mainly of selling puts, covered writes on stock and selling calls. I’m dissatisfied with their service as with my experience these are things I can do easily. In addition selling calls, puts and doing covered stock exposes you to possible large losses.
Their recommended purchases of calls and puts are very few and that is the type of option service I’m interested in. By buying options, losses are limited and there is a chance of a good score.
For an experienced option trader I don’t recommend the service.
@elgordo wrote: “… doing covered stock exposes you to possible large losses.”
Actually, covered calls are one of the least risky options strategies. Covered calls are one of the few options strategies that are allowed in tax-advantaged accounts like IRAs.
I’ve been a subscriber to Motley Fool’s Options service for over 10 years. I’ve learned a lot. As someone else pointed out, it takes time to learn and understand options trading. The service has more than paid for itself each and every year I’ve been a member.
Subscribed in August, hoping to learn and profit. The educational aspect is good, the practice is mediocre. Not worth the lofty price.
This is a waist of money.
I’ve been investing in stocks and options for over 20 years now, and I really enjoy Motley Fool Options. I used to do just buying or selling calls or puts. Now I’ve learned how to increase my profits with spreads, straddles, strangles. Haven’t tried an “Iron Condor” yet, but they explain how to do it.
They seem to have a good percentage of winning trades (80-90%). I pick and choose the ones i implement, and I’ve made enough to pay for my subscription for the next 20 years.
You need to be a little patient sometimes. They have enough readers that when their recommendations come out, the volume of those issues jumps enough to possibly skew the price temporarily. Wait a few hours or more, and you’ll be fine.
A great service for trade ideas no matter if you are a veteran or a newbie. Even pro’s can use a different look at options. In the option markets there is so many different trades you can make the motley fool options service help you realize some excellent opportunities you may not think of.
They enable the fools to access a vast amount of information. In my opinion it is way to much past (irrelevant) history of their accomplishments and not enough actionable put and call trades. Most of this is a distraction. Volumes of opinions by other subscribers that really can be an overwhelming amount of reading for some of us. Also like most others they are constantly pitching their other products for sale to the fools.
I enjoyed there service i put a video review together on it
Review of Motley Fool – Options Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwfELn5W8GA
I actually did appreciate the service. It was very educational, and showed me when, why, and how I should use Options correctly (i.e. safely and not as a “gambling” tool) – not for everyone I know, but it suited my style of investing. Unfortunately, they have stopped accepting new subscriptions, and I couldn’t even extend my old subscription – they are trying to get me to purchase one of their other services which have MFO as an add-on, I guess because they’re winding down the service. I still have some positions open that were closely following the MFO recommendations, so if anyone can point me to how I could still follow these last moves, I’d appreciate that!