Hello Rick,
Just wanted to give you an update over the last couple months because holy crap! After my July success with an AAPL option of about $3000, after the August huge crash deal, I did exactly what one of your newsletters said not to do…I let my husband (who has not learned the system yet) talk me into trying to trade with the huge swings going on in the market to try to profit (not entirely his fault because I was intrigued too and caved in). Yeah, we were then -$800 and I was so mad at myself for not following the system especially with that kind of market and being such an amateur. So I waited for over a month, reviewed my materials again, and just watched and waited until everything was doing what it was supposed to be doing and jumped back in the market on 10-20-15. Made $1798.11 on AAPL options in 6 days, made $908.14 on DIS options in 2 days, lost $1101.85 on TSO options (didn’t set the trailing stop high enough, got kicked out, then it immediately went back up and would have made ~$1500…DOH), made $484.13 on another AAPL option in 2 days and GET THIS…I bought 5 LNKD options yesterday after seeing all the indicators line up. I debated about LNKD for 3 days but calculated acceptable risk for our account, trusted the indicators and in 18 hours made $6475.93 and was taken out by the trailing stop. For a grand total of $8464.46 in 10 days.
Sorry for all the detail but I just had to! I just can’t believe it. I was pretty darn happy about making $2000 for the month much less $8464 total in 10 days! Most certainly more than my best 10 days ever in the office, and all of this done in 20-30 minutes each day in my PJs while my son watched cartoons in the morning. Worst part is, I have been playing with LNKD options in my virtual account and trying out a few different exit strategies on it to see where my comfort levels are and my virtual account is up $21,500 in 7 days!
I’ve discovered I’m very uncomfortable with risk, so I figure I have to be comfortable with what I can do at this point with our real account. There’s no reset button in our real account LOL. I am just amazed. I still don’t feel like it’s real that this actually happened. Right now I just LOVE options 🙂 Also a complete side note, I shared this information with my family in July and only my one sister took me up on the offer to go through the material. Frustratingly, my mom and dad, my other sister have no interest!!!
So my sister works for Northrup Grumman and had a 401K roll over to them when she started working there 5 years ago. So this month we’ve been working together on her account (she’s a MUCH bigger risk taker than I am!) and she moved some things around and she wanted to buy a bunch of NOC. So we analyzed NOC together and she has made ~$14,000 in just a couple weeks! She is now urging my parents to do all this too, so I’m hoping they will. Again, sorry for the long email but it’s all just so exciting and no one knows what I’m talking about when I talk about the market and options. Thanks so much for these courses!!!
So, Dr. Laura V., you were a newbie when you posted this, so wondering how you’ve done since November 2015 with four years under your belt? You can be as wordy or Reader’s Digest version as you like. I enjoyed reading your post. Also, how is your risk taker sister doing and did your parents ever jump on board?
Hello Gary,
So I do need to be completely transparent, after February 2016, I completely and utterly fell off the wagon. Why? Because I had another baby and the cascade of life events came after it. I hate to even admit that I truly was just too overwhelmed at that early motherhood stage to continue with it. Well, when I went to get back on the wagon after a blur of a first year with the baby, then got knocked down again when we moved across the country for my husband’s job, then moved again 4 months later. Then sunk into a pretty deep depression because I HATED where we lived and the life we left behind. Quite honestly I didn’t care about anything except making it through the day for 2 years until we could move again. During that time, I had a bunch of scary personal health issues crop up as well. It was a pretty dark time for me. Excuse after excuse after excuse. I feel like I let myself and others down to be honest. I won’t lie, I feel embarrassed that all of this got the better of me and that I should have been able to overcome all of it but just…couldn’t. I thought about getting back into it frequently. Then in September 2018, on a whim, I started peeking at the market again. I jumped into TLRY at an insanely perfect time and bought some options…and made $38,000 in 2 days with maybe a $3,000 investment. It was astounding. (Admittedly it was a little of an off system trade but I wouldn’t have known how to do it without knowing this system.) And was reminded of WHY I need to get back in. Because it works. Well even after that success, I still hadn’t recommitted. We moved across the country again in August 2019, and now, 6 months later I’m finally feeling settled enough that I find myself thinking more and more to reread the manual, revisit the videos and get back to it. After an almost 4 year hiatus. Hard to believe it’s been that long even as I type it. Funny enough, my best friend JUST asked me about it today after me bothering her 6 years ago to check it out. And so, I logged in and happened to see your message. I feel like a rusty wheel is turning again. I’m kind of appalled that my break has been 4 years long (with the exception of that one crazy trade). I try not to think of the opportunities I missed out on because I just couldn’t get myself out of that hole for a while to even care. Thankfully this move turned out to be an awesome one and we’re staying put for a very very long time. My kids are finally getting to an age where they’re more independent and/or have started school. My health is slowly turning back around (I hope anyway) and I feel ready to recommit. Ugh, I feel icky even writing all this down. I wish I could have said I missed your comment for the last 2 months because I did so awesome trading that I bought an island that doesn’t have a wifi signal. But instead I get to write about the dredge of daily life and excuses and it feels uncomfortable and unpleasant. My sister didn’t really stick with it very long. She got wrapped up in life as well. My parents never did jump on board and don’t have any interest. Lol I totally rambled in my testimonial. Geez. And wrote a novel here today as well. I’d like to say in parting though, don’t do what I did. But at the same time, if life does beat you down and you fall off for a while, it’s okay, and just keep going, try again. Life has a funny way of giving second (and third and fourth) chances.