Paul & Phyllis Gazdewich
The first I had heard about the concept that Train2Invest teaches was in 2005. Paul had read an article about this and mentioned it to me. About a year later, he had read something again and said that maybe this is something we should look into, as we were planning to retire in late 2008 or early 2009. Then, in 2007 an information night was being held in Yorkton; Paul and an acquaintance decided to go to it. When Paul got home, he was all “hyped up” about what he had heard. As we talked about it, I was getting excited about it also. By the end of the evening, we had decided this was for us and a couple of days later we were signed up to take the course. In a few weeks, the classes began. The first few classes were a breeze for me as they were dealing with getting started and computer classes; I was fairly knowledgeable on the computer, but Paul wasn’t. Then came the fundamentals and technical analysis. Yikes! This is where Paul’s knowledge came in (thank goodness). After the first few classes of fundamentals and technical analysis, all I could say was – WHAT DID I GET MYSELF INTO! As time went on, the fundamentals and technical analysis became easier and wasn’t that bad and, before we knew it, classes were done.
Then came the dreaded Report. We wanted to know how much we had actually learned so we decided to do our report on our own, without help. As it turned out, we did really quite well; just a few points behind the top mark. We actually learned it!
As the market seemed to have changed from when we began, we decided to take a refresher course and are we glad we did. Things had changed. The market was harder to predict.
In October 2008, we decided we had enough of just paper trading and had to put into practice what we had learned. We put in our first “buy” order. Would we make our 1%? Yes, we made it; then another and another and another. We wouldn’t say we didn’t make any mistakes, but thankfully our mistakes were made on small amounts and we realized what we had done wrong. Although we did make some mistakes, we still made money but not as much as we should have, but that is okay as it was a really good learning experience and, because the amounts were small, it didn’t keep us awake at night worrying about it.
Train2invest’s claim is that you can make at least 30% profit in one year. Since the beginning of 2009 until now (May, 2009) we have achieved 47% in our trading. WOW!!!! They were right; you can make 30% and more in one year. We still have seven more months to go this year. By following the teachings of Train2invest, we have made a profit and by continuing to follow what we have been doing so far we should be able to achieve even more profits as the year goes on. We weren’t sure if we could even do this in a bear market, but obviously it can be done. As we have heard over and over again, we need to do what we have been trained to do if we want to make a profit, otherwise all the training was for naught.
We would like to thank Jonathan, Bert, Tim, Martin, Jeff, and James for all their lectures and for the many, many times they harped at us about how important it is to do our research, fundamentals, technicals, paper trading, doing a weekend plan, et cetera. All of this worked for us and it can for you as long as you are disciplined.
