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Edited by Dan Amoss, this newsletter makes recommendations to bet against stocks using options and short sales.
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SSR-Strategic Short Report- Agora- Dan Amoss-$995/ year-Options service This one is a winner. Dan is very good, good commentary, updates, interesting analysis, when to buy and when to sell. The service rec’s buying options. He has made very good picks so far.I have been a member since 11/08 and have made over double the subscription cost in profit in 3 months. Not a lot of picks, very careful, 1 or 2 month, sometimes none. Tends to rec options further out in time so you will hold them for a while (months). On a few picks I closed positions for nice… Read More »
Confusing title for a report. He has three longs and one short. In reverse purchase order, +23.08%, +26.53%, -27.14%, and +244.83%. Very short track record, (11-14-08), but seems to know his stuff.
I have had very good success with this service.
Dan seems to have an almost uncanny ability to spot opportunity.
I have several services and this is the one I value the most.
The explanations given are logical and easy to follow. The details make his trades easier to connect to a logical trend. I feel very comfortable with his trades. It today’s markets comfort is scarce, very scarce.
May God grant and guide you to health, happiness and prosperity.
Hi Travis Have you joined the Elliott Wave people ? Their book on conquering the crash is quite amazing – the best read I’ve had all year (apart from the Gumshoe site). I believe them in saying the highs of 2006 > 2008 were the end of a Mania – too high , too far, too fast. (See : Tulips) Unlike “Normal” Market corrections of say +/- 10% (before the next climb) – Manias retrace to 100% + of their start point – Hence the Dow at 3000 from 1991 – or even lower at 2000 from 1987. That in… Read More »
I signed up April 2008, I must admit I was dubious for sometime…but to this date as the previous commentators have stated he has been on the money.
The main issue I have (If you can consider it an issue) is that he only gives you one pick a month…but and this is a BIG BUT!!
True to his word…when he gives you the pick “IT WILL BE THE WELL THOUGHT OUT”
That pick is generally a winner, I plan on reupping with him until/unless I find a new “HEAVY HITTER”
One disadv that all newsletter advisories suffer from is making picks every month. I have yet to see someone make 6 or less picks for the entire year. So in such cases it is important that the editor look for both buy and sell recos to improve his chances of scoring. Dan does both. His portfolio did great in 2008. His picks are sound for his fundamental analysis which looks diligent sometimes too diligent. An ocassional loser does show up but thats cool. Since he recommends options his margins are huge. Till now given the great market upheaval Dan has… Read More »
very intressting
This is the best service I’ve used. I’ve lost lots of money with other newsletters, but had some big gains in this one. I think he’ll do well in any kind of market — not only because there are always losers, but because Dan recommends good calls as well as puts.
subscribed for a short while. Couldn’t get into the trades at reco prices. Very fustrating. This is definately a service for a fast mover. You have to be absolutely right on top of the recos to profit substantially. I called customer service after about 2 months and received an instant refund AND was offered the remaining time on the ninety day test drive. Absolutely amazed by customer service. S&A is the first anything I have ever bought on the internet that made good on thier promises. I received a 100% refund because the service wasn’t for me. Amazing. I may… Read More »
With most newsletters I regret ever having tried any of their picks. This one’s different. I mostly regret the picks I *didn’t* try. Dan Amoss has been right much more often that he’s been wrong, so just try every pick and be ready to stop out of the few that go wrong. He uses fundamental analysis and recommends long term options that give plenty of time for the fundamentals to work out. (It can take an earnings release or two before reality hits the market.) So while this is an options oriented newsletter, it’s very different from the short term… Read More »
This is one of the few services I’ve made money with. There are, however, some losses, to be expected. What I like is that Dan admits he was wrong. He just says it straight out.
My main problem is that there are so few recos. On the other hand I’d rather have fewer and more winners than more.
There is no doubt that over a very long term this service might have a good record. There can also be no doubt that up until a few months ago he had some winners. Picking shorts is a hard thing to do as we all know the market very often does not want to cooperate. However for the past few months the performance has been nothing less than abysmal. There are currently 9 holdings in the portfolio. 8 of them are under water with most of them in the -30 to -40% range with some as high as -89%. He… Read More »
I have to agree with SnowCrash. I subscribed to this newsletter mainly on the recommendations from this site but the performance the last few months has been terrible. The RJF put has been a shocker down 100% and the POOL put down %90 with most of the others down 20-45%. It is easy to make good recommendations when the market is heading in the one direction but when it is up and down or turns completely against you that is the hard part. I think most of the profits made on this newsletter were during the general market pull back.
Dan is obviously a well informed guy and I respect his incredible work. The abysmal performance lately I believe is due to the apparent lack of technical analysis and ignoring overall market sentiment. These factors should be studied and then be used to accompany his thoughtfully laid out thesis’. Personally, I never have just taken someone elses “tips” and plunked my money down. It really is up to us, the subscribers, to do our own due diligence. He definitely provides the “what”, just not the “when”.
I subscribed a year ago and the first few picks were good, but he has had a quite a loosing streak with recent picks just expiring for a total loss. I was astounded when the day before BMO was to announce earnings, he sent out an e-mail suggesting we buy more before the conference call because the conference call was going to cause the stock to lose ground. It did exactly the opposite and has been up until the last few days! I was so glad I hadn’t taken his advice. How could he be so wrong! Actually, he may… Read More »
Subscribed 8/20/09. Subcribed because of a hype letter saying subscribe by … to get great information of a stock to short. On it’s earnings day BMO was recommended by Strategic Short Report as a short. Bank of Montreal. He had recommended it as a short previously. BMO went up and has been stable to up since then. I observed his shorts had been doing poorly. He had even admitted it and hoped to do better later. BMO was recommended for a short by Strategic Short Report. The blogs were announcing people were upset about their losses with shorts on BMO… Read More »
I have followed Dan Amoss in Stratigic Short Report for over a year and disagree with the majority of submitted reviews. I have lost money, lots of money using the advice from Stratigic Short Report. Now, no one can predict the movement of the market and there are going to be winning trades as well as losing trades. I understand that but since April (of this year) Mr. Amoss has made 10 recommendations. Only two have been profitable, the other eight are losers. Not just losers but BIG LOSERS. Most of those losing trades decrease in value between 50% to… Read More »
Terrible performance (90% losers) and Dan Amoss has completely misread the overall market sentiment. Yes, he may be right in the long run that stocks are overpriced but with options trading you have to give yourself enough time to be right and he hasn’t done that. Follows his picks at your peril. BTW – relying on picking some winning trades over 12 months ago doesn’t make a good track record.
I’m a successful and experienced (been doing it for a while up/down/sideways market) options trader and had to just put in my “2 cents” after reading the, regrettably, huge losses suffered from what appears to be, inexperienced options traders. First, know how options are designed folks. It is very important to trade with the trend, if such exists, b/c long options (calls or puts) experience time decay and lose value if the underlying (stock or etf) does not go immediately in the direction of your thesis. Options of 3 months to expiry or less lose the greatest time value. Employing… Read More »
Brought on the hype about BMO going to crash. Good thing I only dipped toe with one contract, lost $140 the next day. Took several emails to get refund. Last I know, he is STILL recommending to hold BMO puts (there are actually two recos, from July and Sept) Pity the July ones that are still holding. Sept put is now down 75% and way OTM.
Dan Amoss saved my portfolio in 2008. He was short investment banks, retailers, you name it, he was short and we all made a killing. Here we are at the height of a tremendous bear market rally and wouldn’t you know it, Dan Amoss is still short. Moral of the story, don’t buy put options in an upward trending market. If you do, you will get your head handed to you. As previously mentioned, his market commentary is top notch. His logical approach to identifying stocks that appear ready for a nose dive of a cliff is more than likely… Read More »
Thanks! I love being right … even when I’m guessing.
Yep, I was subscribed to his promomotional 1 year subscription. Just ended. I’ve lost a lot on Dan’s past year recommndations as the market reacted to the mortgage mess. However, I’ve been watching STC since Dan first recommended it. Up very nicely.
Did you get his latest letter due out today? I didn’t realize my sub. was canceled. If you are up for a trade, I can trade Porter’s letter out today as well, for it.
I’ve been a subscriber for over two years. I’ve ridden his recommendations up, now I’m riding them way down. His newsletter write-ups are well written, and his conclusions are very well thought out. He is also wrong wrong wrong. He’s not even wrong some of the time. He’s been totally wrong for most of this year. How is that possible? He likes to use the term “in hindsight”. He talks about how his timing was a little off. No kidding. He laments how the market is not seeing what he’s seeing. Wow. That kind of arrogance will lose you a… Read More »
There are a million calculators on line. The 2001 CSO mortality table for a 65 yr old man is 16.8. I took the first AM Best A+ rated company with the best annuity monthly payment using $100K for an immediate annuity 10 year certain. The IRR came up at 3.24%.
A seasoned FNMA that pays monthly due in 2024 pays around 5.87%. This is how the insurance companies make the “spread”. This paper was originated when lenders expected to be paid back. Not this zero down crap. Comments welcome.
How do I find out about these Australian Banks. I would be interested in converting and investing to get out of the falling dollar.
Its my understanding youcan find Canadian banks that wil take US depoitors too…its myuderstanding they do have some banks in this country, (USA)
billyboygrand@yahoo.com
This was a disaster in 2009.
Hi PH,
what is Vector Vest?
do some research and tell me what you think and i will tell you what i found it to be — this 2 person approch will more likely get it right
is a Byron King Agora's Energy and scarcity suggestion , very good pick and newsletter
, i have it
I do not know who the Canadian Co is, but I can tell you it is not a Canadian Co that owns these Serbian mining rights. The company that does is traded on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) name Medavinci, ticker MVC.L and is just half a UK penny per share. Suggest you look Medavinci up on FT listing of director dealings because just recently the entire board has subscribed serious money. Full details of their mining concession are also in their statements to LSE and profile. I think it is worth a small punt so bought some.
Reservoir Capital Corp, REO (TSX-V).
It's definitely Reservoir Capital because the tease also mentions hydro, which was (and still is) Reservoir's original business. The stock is up over 67% since I bought on 15 October 2010 and more good news recently:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Reservoir-Capital-C…
This certainly paid for my subscription to Energy & Scarcity Investor!
I was a new subscriber to strategic short report. my first trade that Amoss recommended was to buy WFSL puts. I lost 100 percent of my money. My second trade he recommended was to buy BMO puts. I lost all my money again. This guy has a terrible track recored. He is totally guessing when he advises his subscribers to buy or sell. I lost nearly $9,000.00. I can tell you from experience to totally avoid this guy.
I tried this service last year for about 4 or 5 months, and finally quit because following it’s recommendations was causing me to lose too much money. In retrospect, had I done exactly opposite of it’s advice, I would’ve made a decent profit. But Dan’s reasoning to his specific recommendations sound so convincing, it would’ve been a very difficult thing to do. As stated, the author does come across as being astute and knowledgeable. But the bottom line is how it performs. I was very disappointed in the results, as I lost quite a few thousands of dollars following it’s… Read More »
I was initially very enthusiastic – the first recommendation I bought was Lehman puts! It’s been largely downhill since then. My record on closed positions is a 13.9% loss; there have been some winners over the last year or so, but more losers. I haven’t followed all of his recommendations, but my impression (which may or may not be accurate) is that there are still a lot of losers. Amoss writes well and clearly, and the material is detailed, interesting, and well-written. The problem is that even when stocks are clearly overvalued, such overvaluation has the bad habit of persisting… Read More »
Looks like everybody has bailed on this guy. I have finally given up on him and canceled the subscription. As others have noted, he is a prolific “talker” and gives you loads of research smoke. His record for the past 2 years has been absolutely horrendous. I don’t know how you keep a job with the record he has compiled in 2009-2010, and so far this year. I hit big on his Lehman Bros. reco a couple of years ago and made some good money on his GDX call, but who needs to pay him to trade gold? He refuses… Read More »
Shorted PTRY, Down 19%, the guy is an idiot.