Thanks Scott and thanks Paul. It's good to know that this isn't just some scam or usless service that just wants to take my money. By the way, the trade archives show that Red Option initiated a trade in the Q's on Thursday for a debit of $0.89. That same trade looks like it can be had at around $0.85 depending on the open on Tuesday. I'm really tempted to jump in and see how the water feels! It looks like over the long haul the service makes money for you if you take all of the trades. The problem I see is if you just take some of the trades and depending on how lucky you are, you may just pick the losers!! (or the winners?). My personal experience is that I would only pick the losers! Thanks again.
RFH
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> Adding to what Scott says Swim Coach also archives all of the Swim Coach sessions so that you can view daily at your leisure.
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> I used their service for several months awhile back and for the $20 per month it was quite worth the cost. However I was not taking their trade recommendations for real money trades in my account rather I used the service more for educational purposes and paper traded their position recommendations. The intent was to learn how to trade certain strategies, in my case a basket of Index spreads.In addition to the trade recommendations that they publish periodically, you also have access to the trade archives of past trades to monitor any open positions and also review closed positions that they put on. For those who use Thinkorswim using the Thinkback features in the platform was particularly useful for this. Scott Sheridan over at Red Option is very much into risk management and that comes through in the way they trade and their adjustment strategies. As a trade service that one would use solely to make money via taking their recommendations and adjustments, generally most of the positions I was following made money during my subscription period. If decided to take a trade or two from their recommendations for a small position using money at the very least you would pay for the subscription fees for as long as you wanted to use the service. As an educational resource it was very good and I can recommend it from that perspective.
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> From: drrobhansen <robhansen5252@
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> I just signed up for two free months of the Red Option advisory service. I specifically signed up for the index and equity calendar spreads, which I am trying real hard to get a handle on. Could anyone out there please comment on anything you know about this service, it's relationship with Think or Swim, the timeliness of their recommendations, the ability to get their prices, etc. They have an auto trade feature which claims to get the fills at the recommended prices, but I really don't want them to do it for me. I'm still a student of the markets.
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