Hi, I’m Franco, I’m fifty-six years old, and I own a business with my brother.
I got into trading in the late 90s, studying technical analysis and charts of indices and stocks with a discretionary approach, which turned out to be not very compatible with my professional life and, above all, with emotional implications that I never knew how to manage well.
Following the aftermath of the dot-com crisis, in which I was personally involved, I chose to gradually abandon active trading, instead opting for more stable and long-term investments, in close collaboration with the bank consultant I was working with at that particular time.
However, I always maintained the desire to personally manage at least a part of my savings, with the goal of earning a decent income, but I didn’t want to repeat the mistakes of the past and face the stress of discretionary trading again.
At the beginning of 2025, I happened to see a promotional video for the Unger Academy, I ordered the book, and in March, among the various Unger proposals, I chose the Formula Easy path, which I studied during the period when the traffic light was red.
I found this path simple and compatible with my work activity because it requires little time for both study and operations, and it lets you enter the market regardless of whether the index is at its highs or not.
From May to September, I completed eight Easies, all brought to expiration without any particular problems.
In September, therefore, I also purchased the Master path, which is a bit more elaborate, especially in monitoring the position.
I opened a Master, then I couldn’t open the second one because of the required margins, so I did another Easy.
The Master hit the target after forty days, while the Easy, which I had opened at the index highs towards the end of October, about two weeks from expiration, went quite a bit into the red when the index approached the bull put strikes, and it gave me some fair concern.
Fortunately, the traffic light then remained green, the market recovered, and so I was able to keep the profit of about 25% that I had earned up to that point.
Considering that from September to December I only opened two trades, the result could have been even better, but I must say that in my opinion, there was only one traffic light during the year.
In particular, since I’ve been live, it has always stayed green and, yes, not having more detailed data available on the backtests performed by the Unger Academy for previous years, it’s not easy to evaluate this result compared to the average obtained in the tests.
I certainly express a more than positive judgment, however, regarding the assistance with the coach.
I found access to the recordings of the weekly coaching calls very useful.
For this year, I have increased the invested capital with the goal of opening one Master and one Easy per week.
I hope to have the pleasant confirmation of the twenty twenty-five results at the end of the year.
Greetings and happy trading to everyone!
