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Any experience with IIFT (Irish Institute of Financial Trading) ?

  • 11-01-2017 10:14pm
    #1
    Tesco TripleChicken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭


    I am interested in the course but have read mixed opinions about it. Pretty much all of the bad opinions come from people who haven't actually done a course with them, and a lot of the good opinions seem fake.

    I haven't been able to find any actual reviews on them. Surely someone here has done a course?


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  • #2
    ironclaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    I looked at this before and did some digging at the time. Bottom line is, they can't teach you anything that YouTube and some second hand books on Amazon can't. A poster on one of the forex forums I frequent summed it up nicely: If you can't be bothered learning with free resources online, then a course isn't going to change that.

    Now, I'm not for a second implying that to you OP, but they did make a good point. All of these techniques, ideas and systems are public domain. So you can get them for free in a flash in text or YouTube. Add in a good book or two, and you have all the tools you need.

    These courses wouldn't qualify you to work in the general finance sector as they don't give you a broad enough measure, nor do I believe they are recognized on the national framework (Please correct me if I'm wrong) Any trading job will look for some basic education and then put a huge amount of emphasis on your trading log. Their courses won't get you in the door of an employer.

    If it was me, and I'm assuming you have no previous experience in trading, I'd take the money you would spend here and either a) Do a formal qualification with a larger, more internationally recognized body e.g. Masters, Accountancy and do trading in your part time or b) Save the money for the course to live and 'spend' it doing exactly that, living every resource you can get your hands on and building it from there.


  • #3
    Nabber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    They hold free seminars. You could go to one of them. Listen to the lads there and form an opinion.
    A lot of professionals and lecturers where seen as quacks. When today their professions are highly regarded

    I'd agree with iron claw on some points. But I've managed a specialised team for 5 years now. When they require training we call in a lecture in that fried, even tho online and self training is available. Most companies will confirm this.
    Sometimes the human element just makes it work. Like parables.

    OP to sum it up, attend a free seminar, judge for yourself


  • #4
    userfriendly2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭userfriendly2


    Hey guys just wondering if anyone in the last year or so has attended a course run by these lads?
    Any new information or recommendations? I've read through the thread and past replies, I can see there is one very very sceptical poster (which is fine of course) and a few very positive reviews( from accounts that seemed to pop up around the time this thread was first posted) (which is suspicious)

    I know they have a course starting next week and just wanted to know if anyone was attending that or has attended one in the last 12 months.

    Thanks in advance, as always.


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