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Trading course value worksheet

Compare a paid course with a concrete learning plan: tuition, practice time, feedback and what would have to improve to justify the spend.

Price is not the outcome

A course should teach a process the learner can repeat without the instructor. Ask for a syllabus, prerequisites, sample lesson, worked exercises, assessment standard and refund terms. A list of profitable trades is not a curriculum.

Budget the hidden work

Enter the hours you can realistically spend, not the video's runtime. Practice, journaling and reviewing failed attempts usually consume more time than watching lessons. A high per-hour figure can still be justified by substantial feedback; a low figure can still be poor value if there is no useful practice.

Check against a free baseline

Before paying, try to complete one strategy definition using public material: entry rule, invalidation, position size, execution costs and out-of-sample test. Buy only if the course fills a specific gap you can name. Do not purchase on an implied earnings promise; education has no guaranteed trading return.

Scope: This is a cost comparison, not an ROI forecast. It cannot assess teaching quality or predict trading profits.

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