The CFTC shut them down this month, steve symons and Jim Klien AKA Mark BIshop....

They called me with an aggressive sales pitch and they sounded legitimate.  They charged me $5500 for the license and offered me a one year performance guarantee.   If the system was not profitable for my first year I could get a refund of my license fee.  During the year that I traded their system, there were three occasions that the brokers that they referred me to refused to handle their trading system because they are unregistered.  Each time, I had to pay a wire fee and fill out a lot of forms with a new broker.  I originally invested $2500 in the account linked to their system.  My balance kept dropping as a result of losing trades and I kept hoping things would turn around.  Their results were abysmal in February 2012, and I was notified by my broker that there wasn't sufficient margin in my account to cover  any more trades. My original $2500 was down to $489.50, a loss of more than 80%.  This occurred at about the time of my one year guarantee period, so I wrote to Mark Bishop for a refund.  I just spoke to him and he said that I wasn't qualified for a refund because they showed a gain of over $900 for the period. In their sales pitch they told me that their wouldn't be much slippage on their trades because they limited their system to 500 investors.  Actually, in every single trade, my gain was smaller or my loss was larger than what they posted on their web site.  On some trades that they listed as profitable, I had a $12.50 profit before a $24.00 commission. In their sales pitch they show you how they could theoretically make hundreds of per cent profits, and they said they only had posted one  losing month.  Now six of the last twelve months were negative, even on their posted trade list.  Between the slippage and the commission on those trades, no one could have made money with their system this past year.  Their system is strictly technical and the markets have not been performing in a normal technical pattern, being driven by news events and high frequency trading.  

Do not make the mistake of falling for CTI's sales pitch.  The results that they post are not actually achievable. They are not an honest firm, and it is quite possible that before long no broker firm will be willing to handle their trades.  Any performance guarantee based on unrealistic trading results posting system is worthless.  I will refrain from using the words that I feel would accurately describe the character of Mark Bishop and his cohorts because I feel they might be considered slanderous.

http://www.stopdebtcollectorsharassment.com/FAQ.html
http://www.stopdebtcollectorsharassment.com/CTICollectionServicesIncP4.html
Not sure if this web site is legit. Call a lawyer in your area. They say some will take the case for free the debt collector has to pay. Depending on the attorney.

Call your congressman, he made it legal to get repeated harrassing calls from collectors you do not owe. Let him know what you think of that. If you do not speak up no one will.

Also unenforceable telemarker calls. They are legal from outside of the USA. Thanks Mr. congressman for making my life miserable.

http://www.collectiontechnology.com/contact.asp   company name , matches phone numbers area code.   323-545-9520,323-545-9530, 949-752-2369, 949-752-2833 a few numbers they use.

http://www.stopdebtcollectorsharassment.com/FAQ.html
http://www.stopdebtcollectorsharassment.com/CTICollectionServicesIncP4.html
Not sure how legiate these web sites are.
Call your congressman, he said he madde it legal to get repeted harrassing calls from collectors you do not owe. let him know what you think of that. If you do not speak up no one will.

These people are a pain. let this be a warning I am getting a fire cracker and lighting when they call the next time. I hope it will permanently damage their ear.

These idiots keep calling our business after-hours but never leave a message. Apparently they're too stupid to understand concepts like time zones. Call ID only shows "California."

Same ,called asks if it is me (my name), I said yes then he hung up. odd.

burst out laughing and hung up, some kind of sleazy telemarketers

Thank you so much for posting their web site url!

The most recent call we received from them was yesterday, 10/11/2010 at 6:08 pm from (323) 545-9533.

They have been calling us for months from other numbers as well.

949-752-2879; 949-752-2874; and 949-752-2837 are ones I have kept track of.

When we blocked these numbers, they call from a different one (like the one above) so we firmly believe they are just harassing us at this point.  They have not honored the fact that we are on the "DO NOT CALL" list so we filed a complain with the FCC today.  I included the information you provided in our complaint.

Thanks again!

Keeps calling

Received calls on my home phone (too bad not through Google voice) and asked for me by my first name. I asked what it is in refrence to and the guy says "Personal", I ask him who he is and he finally relates CTI. When I finally admit to being "Mark" I tell him I am on the no-call list, this sounds like a telemarketing call and we have never done business. Why are you calling I ask?  He says it is not, but that I asked for information about trading futures. I told him I was not a trader and he says I filled out a questionare. I said I would never trade futures and he started rattling off stocks, bonds, all sorts of financial items I might have. He could not tell me where he got my number. I tell him to place me on his do-not-call list and that I will be reporting him.

i get calls from this and other numbers (323-545-95xx) all the time on my cell phone..  it's odd because i've never given out my cellphone number to anyone -- absolutely no one -- and i use google voice to forward to it, yet they still have it somehow.  i've never answered, but they call at all kinds of ridiculous times (5pm, 11pm, 5am, 11am).  it's been going on for 3-4 weeks now.

i just received a call today by a male asking for me with my full name, he said his name was david hernbrad, I am not sure how the last name it's spelled, and hung up on me after I asked were he was calling from.

My husband is getting the same call on his cell phone for me. They won't talk to him and they ask for me by my full name which is odd.I called CTI it is not them the 323 exchange is california.I'm going to block the phone number from his cell phone. Good Luck

Why are they calling? They spoke to my husband and asked him for $6000 with trading futures. Is this for real?

Have received several calls from this number. Only answered it to tell them to "take me off their list". Caller asks for my husband (in a rude tone), I ask if I can tell him who is calling, then the caller hangs up.

Next time, I think I will blast a high pitched whistle in his ear. Maybe that will get us off the list...

These people have called at least 30 times over the last 2 weeks. I do not answer. Who in the heck is CTI anyway? Pests...

323-545-9509
323-545-9520
323-545-9515
323-545-9533

If ever a chance that you receive a call that says they're from CTI that is NOT the www.cticrm.com there are lot of companies that goes by that name. 323-545-9520 is not theirs.

The CTI that is calling you is NOT www.cticrm.com but a possibility of this company http://www.collectiontechnology.com/  among other call centers that go by CTI.

"Here is their contact page on their web site. http://www.cticrm.com/contacts.html. Request that they take you off their list. If they do not file a complaint with the FTC and the Attorney Generals Office."


That's not the same company with the trading system scam

These people at CTI in Beverly Hills are very rude and have called on a number of occasions.  They call trying to sell some business product to my cell phone.  File a complaint with the atty general in CA.  www.ag.ca.gov. like I am doing. I am already on the do not call list.  Also got a call from the same company from a 949 area code in Orange County, CA.

Here is their contact page on their web site. http://www.cticrm.com/contacts.html. Request that they take you off their list. If they do not file a complaint with the FTC and the Attorney Generals Office.

Called business phone line after normal business hours, but left no message.