Fifth Person's Investment Quadrant Course - A Small Review

With the recent uptrending markets, there's nothing to buy meh. So I thought I'll try to learn more while waiting for bargains to come.

Well, I kinda just broke my new year's resolution of not buying books on finance. Though maybe a course doesn't count? ^^"

I was impressed with their Dividendmachines course, especially by the organised learning structure and easy to understand presentations.

I remember asking Rusmin and Victor on whether I should sign up for the Investment Quadrant right away but they told me to try my hands on doing analysis from the DM notes first and see if I actually find it easy or useful.

In fact, I did my own separate reading up and compiled my own checklist on top of The Fifth Person's DM machines checklist for stocks (which you can see in my Portfolio Update in January here), kinda upgraded myself.

Still, after so long, I was still eyeing Investment Quadrant, partly from the multibaggers they got (big profits always attract me, I admit), and a system of how to get them.

So after eyeing the course for so long, after my performance bonus (although all went into my warchest after using some of it to cash topup my brother's SA for his retirement), I opened their page and saw that the price is still not yet revised, used some savings from my OCBC 360 bonus interests and funded the course :)

Okay enough ramblings ^^"

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The course structure is very simple and straightforward yet comprehensive, it covers and compiles materials I read from many books into a simple format that makes it go down smoothly (I have read quite a few books but it is kinda part to piece everything together and not miss anything out, I even read the book "Value Investing in Growth Companies" by Victor and Rusmin).

It also clarified many basics that I am not very sure of, considering my background.

To make it better, although it is web based, there's some text for light reading (but not wall of texts, those reading those books get what I mean, and maybe not all are to date information or usable), short and readable and many videos to explain it better for you.

An introduction to the Investment Quadrant is better explained on their website here. (They expand in great detail on the stuff they said there so I feel is pretty representative overview of the content what they would teach)

In addition to the 4 Quadrants, included in the training website are stuff like:

• Investors Psychology (Something I can't ever stress the importance of)
• Simple stock screening (including a very good flow chart) that is easy for novices like me to use to build watchlists
• They have checklist for each quadrant too :D
• Entry and Exit Strategies (Something I find it lacking in many books, though it would be nice if it is more detailed, but I understand it is quite subjective compared to pure trading by TA)
• Portfolio Management
• Monitoring Stocks
• Q&A forums to support you in your queries (yes it is active)

And adding on the free tibits they have on their website that I also use to add on to my analysis:

• http://fifthperson.com/7-quick-steps-to-pick-the-best-dividend-stocks/ (used this to add on to my dividendmachines course)
• http://fifthperson.com/investment-idea-training
• http://fifthperson.com/value-of-a-stock

In short, I think it is a very good value for money course (about $400?) for people like beginners/novices who want to start investing or have started but want to learn more yet not having a lot of heavy reading ;)

Productivity Tip: Videos can be watched and listened on the go ;)

So here's the side if anyone of you are interested in learning more:
http://investmentquadrant.com/ 


Disclaimer: this is not a sponsored post nor ad for The Fifth Person, I don't get anything for this post, it is purely based on what I have experienced and found, and I find it very useful for other novices like me :)



For those of you who missed my review of Dividendmachines you can find it here.

The site for registration is found here:
http://dividendmachines.com/

They hold an annual InvestX Congress too, I had a post about it here.

The site for InvestX is here:
http://investxcongress.com/