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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.

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!

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.

The core strategy is selling naked options on a handful of highly volatile commodities, mainly crude oil, gold and silver. Small wins are fairly common, until they’re completely wiped out by the inevitable blow-ups. It’s the essence of picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. In April, many members took massive losses that could take months to recover from, and that’s only if everything goes smoothly from here. These aren’t black swan events - every few months, there’s a sharp move, and months of small profits are wiped out, and then some. When trades go against you, the go-to “solution” is to roll further out, locking in losses while doubling down on risk. Over time, the average days to expiration of trades have gotten longer (90 days plus), which increases exposure and reduces the benefit of theta decay. During periods of high volatility, bid-ask spreads go through the roof, and margin requirements can spike 50% or more, compounding the damage. There’s little focus on understanding or managing the systemic risk inherent in these commodities. Since most of them trade overnight during the week, you can wake up to a screen full of red with no good exit options. The course fee isn’t worth it. Whatever the price is now, you'd be better off using that capital to trade small and learn by doing. The polished marketing doesn’t reflect the real risk you’re signing up for.

Tom Hurd is at it again. I just caught his ad for a free options course. This is nothing but an incentive for you to buy his $6k course. His trading strategy lost over $13k in April 2025. Too bad for those who followed his trades and got hammered too. He doesn't even follow his own strategy and buys options. Please don't fall for gimmicks.

I have not purchased SOS training. My review is based on my experience with having a 45 minute discussion with a sales rep about the program. The first thing to note is that SOS conducts a loud and persistent sales effort to recruit people to the program. From the moment you schedule the half hour consultation, you get bombarded with texts and emails with threats and pushes to keep your commitment to the scheduled time. And because their CRM seems pretty broken, you get emails and texts questioning why haven't you scheduled the consult yet. So right off the bat SOS was on my "this is dubious" ledger. Truly successful programs get sought after, not hard sold in my experience. You have to ask the question "If SOS can return 10% per month, why are they wasting time trying to sell a $6000 course?" During my half hour consultation I asked twice about whether there is any evidence I could see to back up the claim of 10% per month returns. I was told that I was being sent emails that would have that information. The emails had links to videos which did not provide anything approximating evidence. No broker statements, no trade examples, and no clear information about what the trading strategy is. The only clear statement about the strategy in the videos is that it only uses selling of options. This is naked trading, and any cautious trader should have a plan to mitigate risk. Trusting that the trading guru has abnormal success in selecting winning trades is faith based trading, and only the gullible or imprudent accept faith as a plan, especially so when no evidence is offered of a completely abnormal success rate. So I responded by asking in email again whether I could see examples of the trades they are making, and what the strategy does to hedge risk. This email was not responded to. During the discussion the sales rep indicated that I was a person that would fit in with their program and to please ask follow up questions. So I can only assume they found my questions objectionable. Also part of the sales presentation is to sell the group of other people who have joined the program as great people willing to help others succeed. There is emphasis put on the sales screening on SOS wants people who can be trained and are good at working with other people. Since being part of the SOS group is presented as a key benefit of joining SOS it raised my curiosity as to why joining a "great group of people" would be so highly promoted. These people are all students looking to learn how to make money, so by definition they are not mentors. I understand how having discussions with fellow traders would have value, but I would not elevate it to being a principle reason to invest time and money learning the SOS methodology. So along with my question about getting some evidence about the performance of SOS, I asked about the moderation and nature of discussions in the group. Anyone with experience on chat groups on Facebook or other social media groups knows how toxicity can ruin the experience so you do not want to waste time there. Perhaps it was my question about the chat groups was the trigger that caused the sales rep to quit communicating with me. I would not be surprised because the nature of the sales pitch seems organized to recruit followers that will obey. Bottom line, I was not able to get anything close to evidence that SOS can deliver on its claims, and not only was SOS unable to provide extraordinary evidence, they were unwilling to provide any evidence. This lack of transparency is a no go for me. Edit after seeing the reply from SOS As to the claim that my email response was not received, it is in my send folder and there was no error indicated by Yahoo that it was not delivered. More importantly, note that in the SOS response they do not address my concern about not providing evidence for their claimed extraordinary success rate. And as I titled my review, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I leave it to the attentive reader to make their own judgements as to the importance of this point to their decision.