Investools PhD Program Course Manual DVDs

An affordable alternative to the costly Investools PhD Program now offered by TopInvestingTools.

The Investools PhD Program is the most comprehensive program offered by Investools Investor Education, designed to give individual online investors a solid grounding in trading stocks and options.

Having taken the training myself, I think it can be somewhat useful for teaching beginners how to establish disciplined and successful stock market trading strategies.

However, Investools programs involve considerable cost!

Investools offers a hierarchy of "Graduate Programs": an "Associate Investor Program", a "Master Investor Program" and a comprehensive "PhD Program". The PhD Program costs over $20,000 (the actual cost is hard to pin down -- it seems to vary depending on which sales representative you talk to and what promotions they are offering that day). On top of that, there is the recurring subscription price for their online toolbox, about $600 per year!

If you choose to buy the programs piecemeal, you'll most likely advance through the following progression:

Investools 7-Step Investing Formula Course Manual
Investools Basic Options Course Manual
Investools Advanced Options Course Manual
Investools Advanced Technical Analysis Course Manual
Investools PhD Program Course Manual

The course manuals are online, and the courses include a live one- or two-day workshop and introductory access to Investools Online and Trading Rooms, which you will pay extra to renew when they run out. You'll also end up paying separately for coaching and access to "Masters Talk".

You can see that even purchased incrementally, the costs quickly add up if you are seeking to develop a truly profitable education base, beyond the neophyte's adequately successful "red and green arrows" trading strategy.

So what do many students do when they cannot afford to expend their precious investment capital upfront on such costly tuition?

A cursory search on the Internet reveals a burgeoning underground market for Investools course materials, including the resale of course manuals, course DVDs, special event DVDs, toolbox subscriptions and even full programs. However, a great deal of this activity is fraudulent, infringing on Investools' copyright. EBay has cracked down on the sale of bootleg copies of manuals and DVDs, and many an unfortunate buyer has discovered that toolbox subscriptions and program ownerships are non-transferable.

What does all this activity indicate? There is obviously a strong demand for investor education at a lower price point.

One could crawl the web searching among amateur trader forums, commercial online trading outlets and, of course, countless books -- only to get quickly get buried trying to sort through the bewildering storm of conflicting opinions and advice from dubious or personally invested sources. (I know, it happened to me!)

Recently, I happened upon some products that fit the bill quite well, made by a software company called TopInvestingTools®. They offer "Investor's Resource Toolkits". These downloadable desktop applications are absolutely packed with online courses, step-by-step tutorials, comprehensive reference manuals, great trading tools, repeatable online seminars, streaming video, free access to live seminars, and even a free options helpdesk.

Depending on your level of trading experience, you can choose from:
The Basic Stocks Resource Toolkit
The Basic Options Resource Toolkit
The Advanced Options Resource Toolkit
The Advanced Technical Analysis Resource Toolkit
and
The Ultimate Investor's PhD Resource Toolkit

I'm impressed by how well these toolkits organize the learning materials into a clean and easy-to-use interface. It's also refreshing to find such a wealth of quality resources and trading tools for any level trader at down-to-earth prices. No hype, no upselling, no getting bled by constant subscription fees or hidden costs. If you're serious about pursuing the kind of returns that come from an advanced education in stock market trading, but balk at overpriced investor education programs, these resource toolkits are simply the best value I've seen.

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Mark Harris is in no way affiliated with Investools® or any other trading or investing program mentioned here. This website does not contain any copyrighted property belonging to Investools® or any other trading or investing program. Mark is not selling or reselling products or services of any kind belonging to Investools® or any other trading or investing program mentioned here.