So, to do 20% a year, you would have to be the kind of stock picker that can find stocks that will move 30% or more up pretty regularly, and you have to coordinate the IMs pretty well also. The returns you see will be very dependent on general market conditions and the stocks you pick.

Our mission is to give anyone and everyone the options education, options research tools and confidence to be a self-directed trader. By learning the concepts in The Blueprint, we feel that anyone has a chance to be successful, and if they are not, at least they didn’t squander ALL of their trading capital by trying to chase after 5% to 10% per month returns. Fission has had some trades that returned 40%+, but they are not the norm. Home run trades like that can happen if your in position for them to, and we think that the RadioActiveTrading method allows for that positioning.

Kurt Frankenberg’s Thoughts on Returns and Those Who are Advertising Returns…

“I refuse to advertise any kind of “monthly return”. Those that do, and put them in the 100% per year mark (that’s what 6% a month, “compounded” really means – work the math!) are simply not being honest. I’m not calling anyone a liar, just demanding that proof be made of this claim considering ALL trades… and have never been shown to be wrong.

The only guarantee in RadioActiveTrading is that we will not exceed the posted AT RISK amount in losses.

Having said this, the returns are dependent on what the market does. I have had trades that have given me 40%+ returns, but they are few and far between. However, I would not have been able to enjoy the benefit of such a “home run” trade had I not been willing and able to enter the trade; willing because my risk was so low, and able because I still had money left after a bad trade or string of bad trades.

My mission is to reverse the damage caused to investors by the implied guarantee that they can expect “monthly returns” of any kind. I’ve been saying so since 2002, and have been vindicated by the current market. Many thank you letters have poured in.

If you are ready to address risk first and THEN talk about returns, get The Blueprint. If you wish to continue to buy the line of 6% … or ANY %… per month… there are a number of companies willing to take and spend your hard earned cash for a weekend seminar, with no accountability.”

Well, shucky darns. Let’s make an analysis.

We’re bullish on an ETF. There is a high level of exposure if we are wrong and get exercised, but we limit our upside if we turn out to be right.

Huh? WHY woudja?

Oh, well at least we also don’t get to participate in dividends. Hmmmm..

This kind of thinking comes from the desire to be PAID premium rather than to pay for it, and I understand that… but it’s silliness, wouldn’t you agree? Even without gapping (incidentally, issues that “don’t gap much”… sometimes DO…) you may end up being right more often than wrong and STILL smarting for it.

Say your puts, that you sell for a dollar, expire worthless four times. THEN, you sell a put that goes down… end up paying for another put… and cost yourself just four bucks.

After commissions you are BEHIND, with an eighty percent track record of being right.

I would much, MUCH rather be right four out of five times and make good money being long stock… and lose once but not much. Savvy?

Thanks again for the kind words Tim.

K

Thanks a lot for all of your inspiring work.
I love what you do.

Just wondering what you thought about using an ETF that does not gap much, and begin the trade by selling naked puts first that are out of the money? Then only if the ETF heads south, to the premium amount received below the strike price, purchase ITM put protection in preparation of being exercised. If this happens, I would lose some time value, but would have received the premium upfront first by selling the put to account for this. If I am not exercised, I save on brokerage and never have to put any money into the trade. I am aware of misssing out on any upside as a negative by doing this. Do you see any advantage here?

When I began selling naked puts, my broker, who actually owns the brokerage, “strongly’ suggested not to buy puts until exercised first, when I initially was going to buy put protection upfront.

Keep up the great work – you are really making a difference.

Regards, Tim.

Well, I can’t get good premium for the January Bear Call Spreads… and the Februarys look good but expiry is AFTER earnings so I’m not sure I want to do that either.

I AM looking to do Income Method #3 or #4 to bulletproof. Are you a Fission’ Member? You’ll see when I do it if you are.

K