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I haven’t given a review on SOS in some time. However, I maintain my position about THH, the Tom Hurd Hustle having to pay $5000 to $6000 for a course that is guaranteed not to refund your money nor guarantee your success with many people being burned while old Tom gets rich selling pricey subscriptions. My latest proof source is Chat GPT about Tom’s SOS, Short Option Success. Who can doubt AI or artificial intelligence’s objectivity? Do your search and see what AI has to say about Tom Hurd and Short Option Success. I guarantee that you will think twice about plunking down your credit card after reading this critical review.

Don't be a fool and join this service. I paid $5k in 2024 to join and did nothing but lose money. Tom Hurd is a professional marketer. His personal account has lost tens of thousands of dollars ($54k in Jan 26 alone). He makes his money selling his non refundable program to those who don't take the time to investigate it very thoroughly.

I explained when I joined that my schedule was very unconventional and was assured that the video library would be available on the many occasions that my schedule did not allow me to attend the zoom calls. I wrote emails to Tom and to my Assistant Instructor, had multiple appointments where I scheduled time that my instructor did not show up. I answered a survey with explanations of issues. I made multiple attempts to communicate my frustration and inability to navigate the hodge-podge of video information. The lack of titles, and the lack of objectives and the large buffer of visiting on non-related subjects and answering off-topic questions convolutes the quite likely included information that I assert few people have the time to wade through to pull out the kernels of information. I don't believe you are responsive to frustration. I know for a fact that when you have information available to you about basic Adult Education components that are missing from the program that nothing gets done to address that and help explain a better way to navigate the program. The zoom calls are not conducive to new people. It is very intimidating to less experienced members to have members with obviously long histories of trading visiting with each other and comparing notes on advanced topics, flying over the heads of those who are dog paddling and just attempting to get traction. So much so, it became a barrier to joining the meetings on the occasions that it worked with my schedule.

I've been "around" for almost 8 decades and I have listened to hundreds, if not thousands, of sales pitches. In the world of trading, the sellers are usually aggressive and shout about their system - basically trade like you're told and you can't help but win. SOS is the perfect opposite. I've been involved with SOS for almost 2 years (since early 2024) and I have been learning how to have the correct mindset and use basic trading tools to trade options for profit. I have a small (5-digit) account in which I have experienced a profit since “going live” around nine months ago (December 2024) in spite of some major swings in the commodities market.

This guy Hurd is a marketing machine selling his $5000 to $6000 subscriptions (nonrefundable)! He makes you sign off on the no refund policy prior to entry into his scheme. Is that confidence in his product or just an excuse for you to sign on the dotted line and say goodbye to your funds? For a guy supposedly making $$$$$ trading, you will see him regularly on Facebook hustling new clients. REGULARLY!! Ask yourself, where is old Hurd making his money? Trading or selling 4 figure subscriptions on a regular basis? Check this site and see that the amount of one star reviews are starting to become more regular with good detail and explanation of why for these abysmal ratings. Old Hurd continues to refute these single star reviews with his same old “ clients who take my EXCELLENT education are not following the rules!” Tom, how many times will you depict these one star reviewers as less than smart people not following your rules? It’s truly a shame that you continue to pitch your scheme to unknowing people just to fleece them of their hard earned money. It’s really sad!

This program gives you all the tools you need to make significant and recurring returns in the options commodities market. This is not day trading. Nor is it about picking the trends of the market or needing to be right. It is a systematic set of parameters that enable you to mitigate risk and stay invested. But you need to be patient and learn to take full responsibility for your trading. There are no short cuts. You are learning a skill you can use for the rest of your life if you choose. One of the key elements of the program is to be properly capitalized. You can start small, but you need to grow slowly. Finally, you are never left alone. Tom and his staff are always there to answer your questions.

Here’s how this “strategy” plays out in real life. August: You sell $2,000 of crude oil options with 60-100 days to expiration. At the same time, you buy back the June options (originally sold for $2,000) for just $400, locking in a $1,600 gain. September: The rhythm continues. You sell another $2,000 worth of premium, again with 60-100 DTE. July’s options, now worth a lot less, are bought back for $400. Another $1,600 profit. Another turn in the cycle that feels like everything is working. October: You sell $2,000 of new crude options, 60-100 DTE, just as before. Crude price detonates overnight - up 4% while you sleep. The next morning, another 3% surge. Panic spreads across the board. Your short call options, once a quiet cash cow, have turned into explosive liabilities. What was $3,000 in notional exposure is now worth $10,000, and climbing. The bid-ask spreads widen to the size of the Grand Canyon. Worse, your broker is watching. Margin demands spike. You don’t have the luxury of waiting it out. You’re getting seriously squeezed. Maybe you don’t want to exit. You think maybe you can ride it out. But margin won’t let you think. Your buying power evaporates. You're forced to close, not because you’re necessarily wrong, but because you can’t afford to be right anymore. You scramble to exit, but slippage eats you alive. You’re filled at $11,000. Loss: $8,000. You turn to your put side for cover. Nothing. The underlying hasn’t fallen, but volatility has erupted. The puts are sticky, inflated, refusing to decay. They’ve completely hardened. The pain is one-sided. You’ve been blindsided, and there’s no hedge, no hero, no exit plan that saves you. The strategy that quietly printed small gains for a few months has now drawn blood. The next day, price stabilizes at the higher level, chopping around without clear direction. Premiums are still elevated, but the market feels calmer, almost inviting. You tell yourself you can claw some of it back. You lean in and sell $800 worth of call premium. The next morning, crude opens quiet. Controlled. Predictable. Then, at 9:30 a.m., it jolts, ripping another 1.5% over the next three hours. Volatility reignites. Spreads balloon. Premiums spike. You're back in the fire, just one day later. You slam the position shut for $1,900. Another $1,100 gone. Just like that. The same 3-4 month cycle just repeats, where you get some wins, and then get completely wiped out. Guys - this isn’t a strategy. It’s a razor’s edge masquerading as income. It works...until it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, it doesn’t just fail - it punishes you for believing it ever worked at all.

Tom and Damian are the real deal. I've, unfortunately, gotten involved with shady groups and lost lots of money, over the years, so I know of what I speak. I tried trading with a couple of "pump-and-dumpers" that made themselves $$ but, only for themselves. I've traded with legit "gurus" that had good ideas but, when it came to live trading, I always lost money, slowly but surely. The basis for Tom's system just makes sense and he lays out the "nuts-and-bolts" in a way that everyone can understand and backs it up with recorded weekly Q&A sessions and many, many instructional videos. There are tons of people, on the Internet, trying to sell AI schemes and other guaranteed-to-make-you-money systems so be careful. I've been paper trading the system for a couple of months now and I'm 100% profitable, so far. They don't say you will do that, day in and day out, but that, over the long run, you should make money 80% of the time if you follow along. I'll post again when I'm into real-money trading and let you know what happens.