Investools Review

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.

I decided to write this Investools review because I myself was an Investools student. I think the program can be quite helpful for teaching beginners how to establish disciplined and successful stock market trading strategies.

However, Investools training and seminars are extremely expensive!

Investools offers a slate of "Graduate Programs", including the "Associate Investor Program", the "Master Investor Program" and the comprehensive "Ph.D. Program". The PhD Program costs in excess of $20,000 (the actual cost is difficult 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 this, there is a recurring subscription cost for the online "Investor Toolbox" -- about $600 per year!

If you elect to purchase the programs piecemeal, rather than as a package, you'll spend your way through the following progression of graduate programs:

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

All of the course manuals are online, and each course includes 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 expire. You must also paying separately for coaching and access to "Masters Talk".

You can see that even purchased incrementally, the costs add up quickly. Many students report that Investools continually sells the importance of learning techniques to go beyond the "red and green arrows" strategy. If you want to develop a truly profitable education base, beyond the neophyte's adequately successful trading strategies, you will need to learn everything the PhD Program offers. But if you're like most traders, you just can't afford it!

So what do most students do when they can't afford to spend their precious investment capital upfront on such costly tuition?

A cursory search on the Internet reveals a rapidly growing underground market for Investools course materials, including 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 unfortunate buyers have discovered that toolbox subscriptions and program ownerships are non-transferable!

What does all this activity indicate? There is a strong demand for more affordable quality investor education!

You could crawl the web searching online trading forums, commercial online trading outlets and, of course, countless books -- only to be quickly overwhelmed, trying to sort through a bewildering array of conflicting opinions and advice from dubious sources who either don't know what they're talking about or have ulterior motives. (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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Richard Hess 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. Richard is not selling or reselling products or services of any kind belonging to Investools® or any other trading or investing program mentioned here.