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ELGORDO
ELGORDO
January 4, 2010 12:04 pm

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.

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QRon
February 19, 2020 2:54 pm
Reply to  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.

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cautious
cautious
March 11, 2010 4:44 am

Subscribed in August, hoping to learn and profit. The educational aspect is good, the practice is mediocre. Not worth the lofty price.

mmkmmk
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mmkmmk
January 13, 2013 2:47 pm

This is a waist of money.

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dauplat
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dauplat
February 26, 2013 1:32 pm

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.

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firebones
January 6, 2021 12:51 am
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They claim that 80-90% of their trades are positive, but what is their _net_ return? You can have positive returns on 80% of your trades and still lose money if the 20% that are losers are total losses and the wins are small.

Honest question here: can you give some sense of their average return?

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rxedward
rxedward
October 28, 2013 5:16 pm

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.

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mike
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March 27, 2017 3:37 pm

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.

Nick
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Nick
April 19, 2018 7:23 pm

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

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Joo Beng Koh
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Joo Beng Koh
August 5, 2020 3:20 am

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!

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markdavis65
October 12, 2020 2:46 pm

I’ve had good results with MFO
The service is well worth the cost. The service paid for itself in one trade.
The education on options was well worth the price as well.
They stay on the safe side of options – i.e. covered call, writing puts, synthetic longs, bull call spreads, strangles.
There are more exotic trades, but I stick with the ones that I understand the best.
They have a money back guarantee (I could use the money with another service from MF) – so I could transfer the subscription dollars to my RB subscription – if necessary. After my first trade I was all aboard with Options.

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darich29
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darich29
April 9, 2021 12:05 am

They don’t tell you how to get out of a losing Option

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darich29
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darich29
April 9, 2021 12:12 am

They don’t tell you that you can NOT do Puts in your Roth or regular IRA. Only long term Call Leaps. Puts must be done in a cash account and usually with a $25k+ margin account to really capitalize. Timing of entry on the stock price is EXTREMELY important with Options. Theta (time decay) will kill your returns if the stock drops or trades sideways for a lengthy period of time. It annoys me when they paint a perfect picture without addressing timing of your stock price entry. Nowhere do they show where a trade went bad and what was learned from it. Nothing ever goes wrong with MF.

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Mark A Cordrey
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Mark A Cordrey
September 13, 2021 11:27 am
Reply to  darich29

You can do PUTS in an IRA, do it every week. Have to have the capitol to cover the position if assigned.

shipdriver
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shipdriver
September 13, 2021 1:48 pm

I’m a fool but not as much of a fool to purchase this Option program.

I subscribe to Advisor and I’m pleased so far. I call to discuss their option program. Here’s what I found out;

1. It’s very expensive (aprox. $1,995 a year)
2. It is non refundable. You can have store credit. I don’t want a store credit.
3. You don’t get to see their past trades (all options advisory services show that) before buying.
4. It’s non refundable (had to mention that again).
5. They don’t even provide you recent performance. They just quote their 10 or 15 year track record. That’s great but
if they have been in the red for the past 5 years it would be good to know.

I’m not “foolish” enough to buy this product. I guess I didn’t drink enough of their “Kool-Aid” yet.

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Mike Terryberry
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Mike Terryberry
January 26, 2023 2:17 pm

I’m interested in joining MFOS. However, I’ve read that they only send out “a few” trade alerts per month. I’m not a Day trader, but I am a Swing trader. By its very nature, Swing trading tends to mean trading often; certainly much more often than the “few” alerts MFOS sends out on a monthly basis (if what I read is true). Point being, I wouldn’t want to have to place outsized trades (i.e. multiple contracts/trade) simply to compensate for the fact that trade alerts are few and far between, and thus fewer opportunities to profit. Can anyone here speak to the volume of trade alerts they send out per month? If in fact it’s only a handful then to me that would seem counterintuitive to the nature of Swing trading. Hope this makes sense.

If you DON’T recommend MFOS, then are there any other Options trading services that anyone here has tried and found to be worthwhile? I’ve also investigated Mindful Trader and The Trading Analyst. I’m still on the fence with those two.

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