Fontanills is a joke. The only people who linger on his website are the total newbies that didn't quite learn what a ratio backspread was from his seminar, or are trying to find out how to maintain a delta-neutral position with only $10k. Yeah it can be done...... until you run start running out of cash to make further adjustments.
His message boards are liberally moderated. If you're a paying customer and using the boards, as soon as one hint of negativity from you then you get warned that any further negative posts will result in deletion of your account. This sucks if you are a paying customer and using his online web software to analyze options then you have no choice but be a good boy less you don't care about your access anymore.
Look, Fontanills is a decent educator and his website does have some useful info and the options software is decent. But he sells such basic education in the form of super-slick snake oil mail-order advertisements. I think with the internet he changed his approach a little bit, but the good old Wade Cook style is still there. And there is all that Fontanills history. I still receive junk mail all the time from him with hype of doubling my money and pictures of nice vacation get-a-ways, you know the get-rich-quick stuff. So now I scratch my head and wonder why he's still sending me junk? Maybe he's got a marketing machine going and makes all his money selling stuff and doesn't care to even purge my name from the database as an existing customer. Maybe he doesn't make much trading at all, at least nothing even remotely close from his "educational" products.
Hey, I took the course. And I haven't doubled my money (in fact lost $8k on a $20k start - that is over $10k if you include the cost of the course). And I don't live in a vacation getaway either. Where was all that financial freedom you promised me, George?
Ok to give you an HONEST critique, if you're a total newbie and are interested in options, yes, Fontanills will give you the basics and a "hand holding" approach that some can't do without. But options isn't a newbie game to begin with. And yes, when I said newbie, I mean newbie. Fontanills counts butterflies and calendar spreads among his "advanced topics". Common, you pay thousands of dollars and buy into all this hype and the best of the education you get is to learn what a butterfly or calendar spread is?
I'm sure there are a lot of newbies who will sing Fontanill's praises. There are a lot of newbies that sing Wade Cook and Ken Robert's praises too. Even as a newbie you can get lucky and make some money.
But one has to look at the underlying reason of WHO this person is, WHAT he makes his living doing, what his HISTORY is, what INDUSTRY he is (i.e. a trading vendor), and what his REAL MOTIVES are, and does he HONOR his promises. I think as an educated person you can make that decision for yourself.
