About this translation. This student wrote to Henry Wong in Cantonese, the spoken Hong Kong dialect, using Traditional Chinese characters. The screenshots on this page are those original, unaltered messages. The English — including the chat recreations beneath each screenshot — is an AI translation, reviewed for accuracy and written the way an options trader would say it. Every figure, strike and date is unchanged from the original.
Who are they?
A working professional who took Part B of the S&P 500 Financial Freedom Course on 22 September 2026 and placed their first trade six days later, on 28 September. They had taken plenty of investing courses before, but say “very few of them actually paid off”. This time, in their words, they could “see real results” — and by the end of the month they had “a chance to pay myself a small bonus, treat it as part of a paycheck”.
What did they do?
The account: opened on 28 September 2026 with HKD 75,000; Part A orders placed each night, one Part B deployment a week.
The first Part B deployment — the one their trade record shows in full:
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Opened | Monday 28 September 2026 |
| Expiry | Monday 5 October 2026 |
| Implied volatility at entry | 15.83 |
| Index level at entry | 7720 |
| Legs | Long call 7800 (×1), short call 7810 (×2), long call 7840 (×1) Long put 7640 (×1), short put 7630 (×2), long put 7600 (×1) |
| Premium collected | USD 630 |
| Outcome | +USD 382 |
The numbers are strike prices — the levels the contracts settle against — not amounts paid. Quantities are in brackets.
The deployments after that: four positions in total from 28 September, three of them winners; the fourth settled on 27 October and was still open at the time of writing. They are candid that they are “not confident managing risk mid-trade”, so they mostly hold to settlement rather than adjust along the way.
Meanwhile, Part A was losing
Over the same weeks their Part A trades “just went through eight losses in a row”. On the night of 20 October there was a chance to take profit, but a problem with their phone meant they missed the entry altogether.
That belongs in the record just as much as the wins. The same method, on a different position at a different moment, produced the opposite outcome — and the practical stuff (a phone, a connection, not being at the screen) is part of the risk too.
In their own words
What follows is an AI recreation in English. The original screenshots are in Traditional Chinese — see them on the 繁中 version of this page →
Henry, mind if I share something. I took the S&P Part B class on September 22 and put my first trade on on September 28. Four trades so far — a few scares along the way, but nothing broke: three winners, and the fourth is still open, expiring October 27.
I funded the account on September 28 with HK$75,000, working Part A orders every night and one Part B trade a week. The account is up 12% on paper. I'm not confident managing risk mid-trade, so I mostly hold to expiration — results are fine for now.
Part A just went through eight losers in a row. On the night of October 20 there was a chance to take profit, but my phone acted up and I missed the entry.
Even so, I'm really grateful for the way you teach. I can genuinely feel what this financial freedom course can do — and at the end of this month I get to pay myself a small bonus. Call it part of a paycheck. Thank you. Looking forward to taking more of your classes.
1. Sep 28 (Mon), IV 15.83, expires Oct 5 (Mon). Open 7720.
Long call 7800 (1), short call 7810 (2), long call 7840 (1), long put 7640 (1), short put 7630 (2), long put 7600 (1). Collected $630 premium. Kept $382.
2. Oct 5 (Mon), IV 15.59, expires Oct 12 (Mon). Open 7730. …
It's a pretty rough-and-ready record. 😁😅
🙇♀️ I honestly feel like I've finally learned the real craft. Thank you, sincerely. I've taken a lot of courses before, but very few of them ever paid off. This time I'm actually seeing results. 😃🙇♀️
You taught me to stay patient and keep an even keel — stick with it, get the method right, keep doing it, and the results come. I understand that a lot better now.
Really glad to get this. I think you'll do well with it, because you take the learning seriously, and you've gotten everything you can out of the strategy and the thinking behind it.
Keep doing the right things and the results you want will show up, bit by bit.
Keep going!
The result
28 Sep – 21 Oct 2026
The 12% is the student's own unverified figure for the account's book value (from HK$75,000, Part A and Part B combined). It excludes the position still open, and it is one person's experience — not a result other students should expect, and not a repeatable return.
What they took away
- Only trade the part you understand — not confident adjusting mid-trade, so they hold to settlement instead of forcing it
- One method does not win every time — three wins on Part B and eight straight losses on Part A came from the same knowledge
- Execution risk is risk — one phone problem was enough to miss an entry
- Discipline first — follow the method step by step rather than sizing up on instinct
“Henry Wong taught me to stay patient and even-tempered, and to keep at it — get the method right, stick with it, and results come.”