Warning: Significant Underperformance & Unethical Data Management
I am providing this review to offer a transparent look at my experience with the Options Tactics Playbook (OTP) subscription (Nov 2023 – Jan 2025) by Bang Pham Van. Prospective investors should be aware of the significant gap between their marketing and reality: Misleading Marketing: Sales webinars highlight massive gains across many accounts. However, as a subscriber, you only receive alerts for one account. There is zero transparency regarding the other accounts used to lure people in. Significant Underperformance: After following the trade alerts and auditing their portfolio tracker against the S&P 500 (SPY), the results are shocking: 2021: SPY +28.7% | OTP +1.9% 2022: SPY -18.2% | OTP -56.8% 2023: SPY +26.2% | OTP +14.5% 2024: SPY +24.9% | OTP +0.1% Unethical Data Practices: I raised these performance concerns in April 2024. Instead of addressing the issues, the team deleted the transaction records for 2021–2022 from the portfolio tracker. I have retained screenshots of these records prior to their removal. Scrubbing historical data to obscure poor performance is unethical and unprofessional. Integrity is everything in trading; if a service hides its losses and deletes its history, it doesn't deserve your capital.