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He bases his analysis on Elliott waves.
That says it all.
I was a subscriber for a few months. He had a “trading” room were most of the talk was about himself and bitching against others. He had an option adviser service included in the service. Then they cancell the trading room and the option recommendations and were asking for extra money for the option services. I cancelled my subscription soon after.
I started to have doubt on this guy when he was mentiooning in his trading room that he told his boss that he could not trade this market. I don’t remember the date but it was disturbing. What are we supposed to pay you for?
Is there any way John Lansing of Trending 1-2-3 could be banned from this service? Doesn’t Investor Place know what he is doing?
Would it also be possible to sue him for damages done? Anyone with legal knowledge please post your thoughts. This rip-off needs to be stopped.
Several of his past China stock picks are now pending court cases for fraud.
I am glad I found this set of reviews for John Lansing (“JL” as he likes to be called) and his Trending123 Service. I was a member of his Trending123 and options service.
1. Overall the trade recommendations were terrible.
2. Lansing is a certified nutjob. He likes to talk a lot but when his picks go against him, he becomes quiet, sullen, and oftentimes insultatory to his subscribers.
3. Trending123 had a chatroom but suddenly if was closed because “JL needed more time to work on his trading suggestions” That was a crock of bull. My sense is that so many of the trades were going bad, and the subscribers were increasingly pissed off at JL’s harsh attitude, that he had to close the chatroom.
It speaks alot about InvestorPlace that Lansing continues to run this and other services.
I rate this service 5 THUMBS DOWN AND AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
At time, he is pretty good. But too often, he makes a recommendation and then reverses with no good reason. Last week was the worst. The week before and for several months he said just to expect higher prices. But the week before the crash early August, he vehemently suggested a big move up was coming and recommended several double and triple ETFs to take advantage of thise. I bailed on these as I saw things turn down and slowed the bleeding with VXX, SKF and other inverse ETF’s. But I think I have figured out how to maybe play his recommendations: wait til the next two days after he makes them. If he does not put out a new report on these days (he claims he will report every day), do the opposite of what he says. He has a very nasty habit of not showing up when things turn against him. I am a radio weather forecaster and in the last 43 years have had many wrong calls. But I try to explain what went wrong afterwards, and I think that’s one way to maintain credibility. None of that is happening with JL’s service.
First, and sorry for being petty, if I hear “Are you kidding me?!” one more time from this ignorant joker, I’m not sure what I may do!
Much more significantly, he is one of the worst traders and stock pickers I have ever seen, and his timing (due to sincere ignorance) is truly abysmal, and it would be laughable if I hadn’t invested accordingly (and against my better judgment).
Let me share 3 quotes with you from his recent ‘Updates’ and ‘Alerts’- which are way too infrequent, especially when the market is down and he is just plain wrong…
First, on July 29, he gave the “BUY” signal on 4 Triple Bull ETFs for various indices, including the S&P, large caps, and small caps. Not only did he give the buy signal, but said, “I want to make sure I get this point crystal clear: The parabolic rally that occurred in June and the first of July is nothing compared to what you are going to see in August going into September. While I can’t suggest anyone go overboard on these leveraged funds, ‘back up the truck’ cuts right to the chase.” Please read that last sentence twice! This is when the S&P was about 1293 (at which time I bought as he said to, against my better judgment), and when the market started tanking- losing over 13% in 10 days to 1120, or more importantly, losing over 40% in the leveraged ETFs he recommended!
Then, today (8/11/2011) after likely the worst 3 weeks in the market in the last 2+ years, and when it is still down over 15% from his prior suggestion of loading up on triple bull ETFs at the height of the market, he has the audacity to post: “You have to look at the charts to see what is happening, and you have to believe it. We are headed to new 52-week highs. As long as the trend remains bullish and everything else is in tact, then we will hit the 52-week highs. Trend remains bullish and it has only done this three times in the last three decades.” I won’t even expound on this comment or on this HUGE ‘if’ (i.e. “as long as the trend remains bullish…”). I fervently hope I am wrong on this one and that he is right; but the idiocy and arrogance of this and many other comments is astounding. He further compounds it by leaving us today with (please sense the sarcasm here)the very reassuring “…and I can’t think of ANYTHING that has changed from what I have said week after week after week…” Interesting, because it sure seems a lot has changed the last 2 weeks, including the markets.
Please do yourself a huge favor, and NEVER give this guy a dime of your money. If you do, in my opinion and experience, that will only be the small beginning of how much money you will lose with Trending123. I wish I had read these posts before listening to this guy the last 2 months; it would have saved me thousands!
This guy destroyed my life! From $120,000 to zero in a year. i was a member in 2008, the worst decision i ever made and still paying the price today. I Now work in a cab office earning minimum wage. HEAR THE CHORUS AND STAY WELL CLEAR!! you have no excuses now.
John Lansing is a Crook and Conman. I too have lost thousands of dollars to this A–hole. There should be a class action lawsuit against the false advertising and bogus claims that he touts. You have been warned ny many, do not make the same mistake as many of us have. This guy needs a severe beatdown for what he has done to so many people.
I started his service with high 6 figures and expected good things from his service. I placed orders that he recommended even when they didn’t make sense to me. ex, bullish trades when the market was clearly bearish. suffice it to say, I have lost many 100’s of thousands of dollars and do not follow any of his recommendations whatsoever. It’s very sad that I bought into his trades as it will take me decades and perhaps forever to make back the money that I lost as a result of following Lansing’s picks.
Lost 50% of my portfolio with this jerk. If you ask him a questio about one of his picks going down he becomes defensive and insults you or bans you from his chat room.
I think this guy has destroyed so many people accounts that he should be sued.
The only things I can say is I’ve never seen so many reviews that are the exact opposite of reality. I know review sites like these are great for those who have services that like to rank competition poorly and then interject as if it were random the new website that they just signed up for that is just out of this world. Meantime what they actually say is over the top and not a reflection on John Lansing but on the alleged user of his service.
For example posts by Mark on this form repeatedly (I mean come on, think of different ways to post hate but with more created screen names), so far it’s Mark with an upper case mark with a lower case, mArk with upper and lower case letters back to back within days of each other all claiming to be different people with different stories.
So here is my take away, while no service is perfect for everyone’s style of trading and risk tolerance the “buyer should observe before they partake” however, if you have problems with not liking the content, the style of analysis, the updates, the resources available, then why on earth would you stay subscribed for years and then post on how much you personally hate him and that’s why everyone else should also.
The only one who manages one’s trades is ourselves, and while at the time we enter a trade we can be just as bearish or bullish as he is, if I chose to take on more risk because I am all amped up to make a killing then I really have no one to blame but myself.
As far as any service with anyone, you just don’t know until you try, but you can watch free of charge as per all the marketing emails I got and get a refund if you aren’t happy in some cases 90 days or 6 months and others a year. I signed up to just learn about technical analysis in general, and to my surprise it’s been profitable from the start. I take the good with the bad but I also know if I ever email him directly, or tweet him I always get a quick response to my question and he is great at holding hands during the volatile times.
KK
Seriously if you had a 6-figure trading account, and traded a couple of bad trades why wouldn’t you stop following this guy or paper traded. Who the hell keeps losing 100k+. You would have to be a serious idiot. B.S.
Posts stocks. Reviews very infrequently. Stocks drop but stay in portfolio with no comment. Great way to loose money. Most of current stocks are well underwater. Great talk but the walk leaves a lot to be desired.
2012 performance has been atrocious. Some recommendations are down over 70%. NONE are positive. Responses to questions…NEVER. I lost $70K this year. Recommend avoiding this service for John has obviously lost his way.
I think it’s important that, before you go jumping into one of John Lansing’s introductory invitations, that you carefully look at what other people say they have experienced under John’s tutelage. I was looking to join Trending 123, and somehow or another ended up getting an invitation into another program, called Parabolic Options, hosted by the same John Lansing. Now, I can’t really comment on Trending 123 except to compare these people’s experiences to my own introduction to John Lance’s Parabolic Options. Perhaps I should begin by saying that one should study options and understand all the risks. After receiving an invitation that trumpeted a near-perfect 90 plus percent success ratio for the first half of 2012, and a great opportunity to have everything taught to me by a pro, I decided to try an introductory no-risk offer, and so I signed up. Although acting within minutes of receiving his first few recommendations, the options were already above the listed buy prices or unavailable. So, although he was declaring some 100- 200% victories, they did me no good, and others in the chat room saying the same thing.
In frustration I wrote an e-mail letter explaining my inability to get into these trades he was having such great success with. Within a few weeks, he did say in one of his follow up videos, that he was receiving some complaints about this , and that you can find other options available for the same stock, if you work around the chart and use different expiration dates, different strike prices, etc. . So much for detailed professional tutorial and learning from a pro. Everything which I saw, that might fall in the category of instructional teaching was done in the way of multiple graphs, and seemed to imply that the number of graphs behaving a certain way, in conjunction with each other, ultimately reveals which way the market will move in the short term. However, from everything I have read through other sources, it appears that most writers think that even the best chartists claim no better success than 60-70%.
Well, John Lansing then put out about 12-14 trades which he said he thought would have a 99.9% chance of success. Given his nearly perfect performance record over the first half of the year, those were powerful words, and so I made the plunge. Of the 12 trades I did get into, we profited somewhere between 20% and 85%. Two of those were still on the table as they had a longer expiration dates, when John came up with his next batch of recommendations. Here he offered again about a dozen trades that I got into in a short time. This time, he said he calculated a 100% chance of success in. I still had those two previous options in my portfolio that were not looking very good, but, as he said, they still had plenty of time to go good, and, from my perspective, I did have eight winners that I had already closed out. This time John also said we had such a rare opportunity for profits that he wanted us to double and triple down on the chosen options over the course of the next week — hopefully at even lower prices. This I did, and, indeed, after a one-week rise, the prices began to did and soon were lower. Let me tell you, it isn’t much fun to double and then tripled down on a bunch of stock options and then watch them continue to drop.
The two previous options expired worthless, and I had my first two 100% losses, which began to make me feel uneasy . Meanwhile, the entire portfolio was going down fast. I twittered many questions on his web site with no response. I e-mailed through his service department, but still no response. Over the next few months, all 12 trades expired worthless, leading to the most incredible losses I could have ever imagined. During the course of these events, as far as I could tell, John was AWOL from his twitter site, as he did not respond to any of my questions. In his videos, he offered no explanations or apologies, only showing graph after graph about how things were going to be successful. At one point he actually said, “Boy! When I am wrong, I am really wrong!” That was it. There was no advice about cutting losses, stop losses, or anything like that. By the end of the month all of the trades were too far underwater to even bother trading in for anything. I canceled my membership, and at least got my money back there. The entire allotment of my portfolio, which had been entrusted to the experienced leadership of Mr. Lansing was reduced to zero without one single word of consolation or explanation from him . As a “valued customer” I would’ve expected better. From my experience, all I can say is: BEWARE OF JOHN LANSING.
I can’t believe this counter trend trader is still in business. Like so many of these scam artists that started with stockcharts,com public pages, they may have a system, but it seldom works for the subscribers. This ass has another terrible record and will vilify anyone who questions their idiotic touts. Another RUN dont walk from this garbage.
I have lost 50% of my invested capital since trading ONLY on John Lansing’s advice. Today, he has advised us to close the shorts we have been holding and losing money on for YEARS now! He is now convinced a few pennies pull back is the right time to close these losing positions without so much as an apology for his mistake (and mine for listening to him). Here is the letter I have written to him today:
Dear John Lansing,
You are a complete and total loser. You have sold me your trading program and cost me 10’s of thousands of dollars because you have no idea which direction the market is heading.
You claim success by taking pennies on some trades, while losing 10’s of dollars/share on others. I am down 50% since I met you and believed in you and held onto my shorts and listened to your “Death Cross” predictions and all the rest of your mistakes.
I will not ever trade another trade based on your predictions, and I will make sure that my experience trading with you is spread to others who hear your lies of success.
You are a huge mistake. You do not belong in this business and if there was any way to force you out of it, I would be there pushing you and trying to save others the losses you have cost me.
Screw you. You wouldn’t know a double top if it hit you right in the face would you?
Sincerely,
Aaron Fechter
Former Trending 123 client