[SERIOUS]How to choose a good paid stock market seminar?

hh488,

I think you have not checked the shareinvestor.com.sg website and studied the advert for seminar on 7th March. I did mention the entrance fee at $65 for non-member paying at the door on the day. But you can reduce the cost by becoming a member of shareinvestor and booking your place before 25th Feb to $25. The advert mentions the learning points to be covered in the seminar and does NOT mention any requirement to join a intensive course at $2K. Its for you to decide if the learning points will help you ? If not, wait for the next seminar to appear.

I believe free seminars will not be enough to help improve your share investment results as professional traders don't usually share their "work experience" for free. If you want to learn how professional traders operate , you have to pay the "tuition fee" for the professional's know-how.

If you judge paying $65 for half day seminar in terms of "is it value for money", then better not go.

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Ha! Ha!
What is not possible today is always possible tomorrow. And what is not possible tomorrow is always possible the next day---and the next, the next. So who says it is not possible or possible?
I have just blow "hot air".

Pray for a good course. (hard to pick the right one)

I haven't attended any of the investment courses offered locally because having closely scrutinised the backgrounds of these "experts" and their course materials, I find them not worth the fees they charge. I have attended a few courses and talks in the past decade plus though, not all related directly to investing. I can share two of the most interesting I know of even though you might not find them entirely relevant:

1) Certain CFA organised seminars. These lasts for a few hours each, are usually free for CFA members but non-members can attend for a small fee of $20-40 per pax. Amongst the more interesting ones in the past include talk on US shale oil, company visits, Marc Faber's presentation during one of the CFA annual dinner, etc. You can look up the website to see what events are coming up: http://www.cfasingapore.com/events/index.cfm

2) Excel financial modelling course by Hamilton Lin of Wall street training institute (http://www.wallst-training.com/). Hamilton is an American Chinese and he only comes to Singapore once or twice a year to conduct a series of professional excel courses. You can check their website for schedule. Cost is roughly 1k per module which typically lasts a day and you can sign up for different modules. I have attended 3 different advanced excel courses and his is the best by a mile. You can see it from the people who sign up for his course. When I attended a few years ago, my course-mates were mostly real investment professionals, junior to director level ones working in IB, Temasek and big PE firms.

What kind of trainer will be deemed good enough to attend his course?

Someone that has managed one millon, ten millon, 100 million or 1 billion and has a track record of annual return of 5%,10% and more?

Those that are in the category of 10 million or more with 10% annual compounded return will obviously not conduct any course since it is not worth the effort?(preparing presentation material, presenting, organising, answer "silly" questions and get scolded for ineffective investing strategies...)

So, we are left with some "good" investors probably with assets of around 1-5million with "known" track records that are probably interested to conduct some courses.(even for those with 3-5 millions, they probably do not bother either...)

In fact, the likelier case is that those who conduct courses are likely to treat the courses as their main income and they probably did not make it big enough in investment.

It does not mean that the trainer needs to be a billionaire in order to be a good trainer. However, the trainer, with no sizable asset and known records, is not worth a course fee that costs thousands.

CFA stands for Chartered Financial Analyst and to become one requires passing 3 exams ( stage 1, 11 and 111) and having 4 years of approved work experience.

This is not what OP wants for his friends who are too lazy to read the books. I think he just wants a few low cost half-day seminars on understanding share price charts and the best entry and exit points. He can find these seminars advertised on the shareinvester website.

Basically investing in shares is a risk situation where the success result is not guaranteed. So anyone planning to put their savings at risk should make an effort to learn about investing before jumping into the market .

Do not believe any guru n follow them blindly.
only buy after u hv do ur own due diligence.
even after doing ur due diligence only allocated a portion into as we each hv our own bias n shortsightness.
gng for too much stock promotion courses will tend to affect ur judgement...so better nt to go n learn slowly by urself

(11-02-2015, 10:22 PM)wahkao Wrote:

(09-02-2015, 12:23 PM)soros Wrote: Yesterday's Straits Times newspaper ( 8th Feb) carried several adverts for investment seminars including :

1. Conrad Alvin Lim on 11Feb 2015 ( 7-10 pm)

2, Dr Tee Tong Yan on 11 &15 Feb 2015

3. Adam Khoo on 12 Feb 2015 ( 7- 10 pm)

4. FX TRADING SEMINAR ON 11 Feb 2015 ( 7-10 pm)

sounds interesting
anyone can review these?
which one is good?

refer to post #18 for one of the guru.
nowadays seldom see adverts on teaching kids to score As.
I think more money can be made in stock seminars versus 'teaching' kids

Can consider the SGX Training Academy... Here's the link

http://www.sgxacademy.com/index.php?opti...3&Itemid=8

I was also about to reply "SGX Academy".

I guess those outside seminars by individuals often tries to entice people with promises of some proprietary, secret formula that will give them an unique edge over the rest of the market, versus proper financial education which teaches you tried and proven methods or domain/sectoral understanding so that someone can be better informed to make the right decisions.

Edit:
I wonder why TS bother to put [Serious]. You mean this forum not serious most of the time? This is not exactly EDMW.