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Simpler Trading (simplertrading.com) has 532 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.1 out of 5.
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simplertrading.com
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Education Services
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Austin, Texas
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2026
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Simpler Trading has by FAR THE BEST EDUCATION COURSES ON PLANET EARTH! The most honest and trustworthy company out there! John Carter is the man, extremely knowledgeable, humble and honest options trader there is.
I've been using their services from indicators, to courses and live rooms(not always) and I don't have one thing to complain!
I also recommended friends that are still using their services and very pleased. Hadan Janak is the man so is Joseph Mauro, Duncan and everyone else in there.
After all my experience with them all I can say is THEY ARE AMAZING and these bad reviews are impossible to believe to say the least! The transparency in all the membership rooms are amazing! DO NOT BELIEVE IN THESE BOGUS BAD REVIEWS!!! I can assure you that!
Response from Simpler TradingDec 29, 2021
Hi Will,
Thank you so much for taking the time to review our services. We love to hear from our customers and always appreciate the kind words!
We take pride in the work that we do and appreciate you very much!
Also, I will make sure to let Haden, Joseph and Duncan know how much you appreciate them!
Happy Trading,
The Simpler Trading Team
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Option T.
Don't buy anything. Period.
I started SAM subscription in February 2021 with $135k account. Today is December 9th, 2021, my account is $5,300. I believed I am not the only one that has accounts blown up with SAM's trade alerts. Thank you Simpler Trading for being a great marketer to upsell me those indicators and useless classes.
I watched John Carter's webinar yesterday again and wow, he did absolutely the opposite of what he claimed in the webinar. Besides all the good ideas that he took from Trading in the zone - Mark Douglas, his trading performance is negative this year with a 40% - 50% swing low on the account.
The other 1-star reviews pretty much described the situation in SAM subscription service: consistent losing, blown-up account, and frustration every day. They tried to pump up the rating with those 5-star-lazy-bum reviews, smh.
Long story short, PLEASE DON'T WASTE your time and hard-earned money on this garbage service. They will take the credits right away and put them on the webinars to lure in new sheep if things go well. Otherwise, they will ignore it and subscribers are the only ones who suffer and lose money. Much worse, they blamed members for being frustrated (due to "lose big and win small" trade alerts) affecting the trader mindset and many people jumped in trade at 1 time and attracted market makers to negate the trade??? Soon he will come up with something new and make it look like it's a recipe of success to upsell you again. John Carter - What a disaster!
LM
L. M.
What a disapointment!
The Small Account Mastery (SAM) has been a real disappointment since I joined in April. Ever since July its been a game of how low can we go. Some of the biggest losers were from his short trades with no setup. We spend all of July and Oct being short while the market kept hitting new ATH's. We just sat and watched our accounts bleed then exited near max loss. I've gotten the vibe that he lost focus and interest in the SAM. He hasn't been performing well in his large account either. It's like he made his money at the start of the year and isn't interested in putting in the work to find good setups anymore. He seems very distracted lately from his kangaroos to his vacations every 2mons among other things. I am not saying he shouldn't live his life and do things he enjoys but at the end of the day he runs a business that directly affects peoples lives and it should be a priority. I've suffered a lot of losses, and this was hard earned money not profits to play with. I keep taking his trades reminding myself that he has grown the account twice before (once from 10K>30K then again from 10K>50K) thinking it can't get worse than this. I'll give him til the end of the year to show some progress otherwise I'm gone for good.
Response from Simpler TradingJan 7, 2022
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, L.M.! We’re sorry to hear that you haven't found success with our services yet. We pride ourselves on our products and strive to maintain high-quality standards.
I can assure you that John Carter cares very much about helping aspiring traders find their success. Though our services are primarily focused on education, no one is right about the market 100% of the time. That’s why we focus on teaching our members how to trade and what strategies have worked for us. With that being said, we’ve seen unprecedented market conditions this past year and it’s been tough for any trader regardless of their experience and approach.
We have tried to find your account in our system and have been unable to find it. Please reach out to us at [email protected] and we will be happy to see if we can get you into a different mastery that may suit your trading style a little better.
Sincerely,
The Simpler Trading Team
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Peter C.
The DARK SIDE of Simpler Trading
My experience with Simpler Trading was MADDENING. After attending several of their webinars, I thought they were a professional firm that cared about their customers and would support them for life. My experience was totally opposite from that. I was in the process of evaluating the VAST amount of different possible product combinations they offer and, in the process, put a product into their shopping cart. While doing so, I encounter a glitch in their system and the order processed WITHOUT MY CONSENT. I received the following email with an invoice immediately after the glitch.
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From: Simpler Trading support(at)simplertrading.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 4:41 PM
To: Address Removed for Security
Subject: Your Simpler Trading Order Confirmation
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I immediately sent an email to their Support desk
Advising them about the problem and requesting them to cancel the order and issue a refund.
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From: Address Removed for Security
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 4:44 PM
To: 'Simpler Trading' support(at)simplertrading.com
Subject: RE: Your Simpler Trading Order Confirmation
Importance: High
Cancel this order immediately!
I was trying to load multiple items into one cart when this got pushed through.
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I immediately forwarded my Support email to the sales rep to request assistance.
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From: Address Removed for Security
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 5:01 PM
To: MySalesRep at Simpler Trading'
Subject: FW: Your Simpler Trading Order Confirmation Importance: High
Hello ,
I sent this to Support but want to make sure it gets canceled so we can engage to discuss my investment.
TIA…. Peter
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He did not respond to my email request.
On Friday, December 3rd at 10:47 am EST I called Simpler Trading contact number 512-266-8659 and reviewed the problem with the agent who answered the phone. I was told he could not help me. I asked to be put through to my sales rep and was told they were all in a sales meeting. I asked to receive a call back and was told that would happen as soon as they ended the meeting.
I forwarded my original email to the Support Desk again to try and get a response:
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From: Address Removed for Security
Sent: Friday, December 3, 2021 11:07 AM
To: 'Simpler Trading' support(at)simplertrading.com
Subject: FW: Your Simpler Trading Order Confirmation Importance: High
Second send!
From: Address Removed for Security
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 4:44 PM
To: 'Simpler Trading' support(at)simplertrading.com>
Subject: RE: Your Simpler Trading Order Confirmation
Importance: High
Cancel this order immediately!
I was trying to load multiple items into one cart when this got pushed through,
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Since I did not receive a return call, I called again at 1:18pm EST and was told no one was available to talk to me. I monitored my email looking for a response and at 3:50pm I called again and was told no one was available to talk to me.
Then I followed up with an email to the Director of Sales:
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From:Address Removed for Security
Sent: Friday, December 3, 2021 2:10 PM
To: Director od Sales - Simpler Trading'
Cc: 'Simpler Trading' support(at)simplertrading.com>
Subject: Please Stop the Madness
Importance: High
Hi ,
Can you help me resolve this today? I sent it to support, fwd to my sales rep, call this morning at 10:47 (everyone in a meeting) Now on hold for 50 minutes.
TIA… Peter
From: Address Removed for Security
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 4:44 PM
To: 'Simpler Trading' support(at)simplertrading.com>
Subject: RE: Your Simpler Trading Order Confirmation
Importance: High
Cancel this order immediately!
I was trying to load multiple items into one cart when this got pushed through,
From: Simpler Trading support(at)simplertrading.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 4:41 PM
To: Address Removed for Security
Subject: Your Simpler Trading Order Confirmation
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I was eventually refused a correction and refund by Director of Sales, my sales rep and everyone I spoke with citing their "Terms of Service" which I DID NOT CONSENT TO DUE TO A WEBSITE COMPUTER GLITCH.
I was really disappointed since all the sales solicitations paint a friendly picture that turned DARK in reality.
Update note: 1-18-2022 Simpler Trading did finally reach out to correct this issue.
LR
Louis R.
Carter SAM Simpler Trading class a nightmare in 2021
Carter SAM classes a nightmare in 2021
Hi, I studied with Carter for 2 years and bought some indicators. He had excellent performance in 2020, maybe after the crash in March, it was easy to win. But so far, I have been removed in November 1st week to trade options in ThinkorSwim on TD Canada, because my account went below minimum required to trade options, means 20 000 US. We were almost 3 000 to sign on his class in simpler trading ST, I look recently, they lost at least 2/3 and more of the paid 2 000 US$ users.
I have to tell that I learned a lot from Carter last year but didn't do so much money as he has done transforming 10K in 40K. was in Asia most of the times.
But this year after 7 months Carter's account went from 10k (reset in April) to les than 7K, useless to say that many lost much more and left including a friend of mine. Carter was almost not there in May and June for 3 weeks out, he put a junior one to deal with us not a senior, like H Campbell last year. Almost everything Carter did, markets did the opposite, in theses last 6 months, So I lost 10K. Will wait for Tasty to get here. I referred my friend back to the TastyTrade guys who have incredible training, they are not a marketing company as ST App always send alerts to sale other programs that are extremely annoying !!!
Their training is bad, if you really want to learn about exotic options strategies, go to TastyTrade, everything is free !! You will get excellent graphics to understand options and strategy options with many legs like vertical spread, iron condor, butterfly, ST only using TOS to train... Even now Tasty suggest trades, FREE from their AI programs. Risk managements, absent in ST, is really well done explained in TastyTrade
I could add more, but dont spend money in simpler trading, go to new platform technology with well scientific and always there traders like Sosnoff, CEO of Tasty, best chance to make profits there and not loosing money in ST. I think Carter lost interest in SAM over the year, my personal thinking and many from those who had signed with him.
Will check sometimes if he is improving but I lost my great trust I had with him in the beginning as well as the trust my son, had, who told me about him !
Response from Simpler TradingDec 22, 2021
Hi Louis,
We appreciate you taking the time to provide your feedback. Our services are primarily focused on education and we are so happy that you found success with Johns trading style in 2020. With that being said, no one is right about the market 100% of the time. The market has definitely been different this year than anything we have seen in the past. We focus on teaching our members how to trade and what strategies have worked for us. Our traders use their own accounts with their own money whenever they trade and are truly vested in the outcome of each and every trade though, which isn’t the case for most companies in our space.
Again, we appreciate your feedback. If there is anything we can do to assist further, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected]
Sincerely,
The Simpler Trading Team
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Rook
Overall I'm pleased with ST
Overall I'm pleased with ST. Opened up the doors to new trading ideas, new strategies, etc. Indicators are a little expensive tho.
Response from Simpler TradingDec 16, 2021
Hi Jon,
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We are very happy that you have gotten a lot out of using Simpler Trading! We always strive to give our customers the knowledge to succeed!
Sincerely,
The Simpler Trading Team
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Terry P.
Love the service and the classes
Love the service and the classes. Thank you!
Response from Simpler TradingDec 16, 2021
Hi Terry,
We are so happy to hear you have had a great experience and success with Simpler Trading! It is always our goal to give our customers the knowledge to succeed!
Sincerely,
The Simpler Trading Team
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William B.
My experience with your services as compared to services offered by other firms
I have been involved with Wealth Press and Market Rebellion as well as Simpler trading. Wealth Press has not performed well for me, and Market Rebellion has performed very well for me. I have taken several of your courses and had trouble getting the accompanying work spaces installed on TOS. John Carter's Small Account Secrets has been a dud for me. the screen doesn't yield any results that tick all the boxes on his check list and many of the results are nowhere close to being in a squeeze. After paying you for training on futures trading, I found out that TD Ameritrade had hoops for me jump through to get permission to trade futures. Much the same is true of the course I took from Bruce Marshall. This all leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth concerning Simpler Trading. The most I can say for you is that you are much better than Wealth Press.
Response from Simpler TradingDec 16, 2021
Hi William,
Thank you so much for your feedback! Our Tech Support team is always happy to help you with TOS. Our services are primarily focused on education. That’s why we focus on teaching our members how to trade and what strategies have worked for us. We are sorry to hear that you have had some issues with your account with TD Ameritrade. We are not associated with them at all.
Sincerely,
The Simpler Trading Team