Trading courses for people with a full-time job in Singapore
If you have a full-time job in Singapore, one constraint decides everything else about learning to trade. You can only look at charts in the evening.
That rules out more courses than price does. And hardly anyone sorts the market that way, so this page does.
The clock, and what it rules out
SGX trades from 9am to 5pm Singapore time. You’re at work for all of it.
The US market opens here at 9.30pm or 10.30pm depending on the time of year, it closes again at 4am or 5am, and that stretch is the only time you could sit and watch a market actually move. So if screen-watching is the plan, that is your window. It is the middle of a work night.
Plenty of people try it. Very few are still doing it in month three, and the reason isn’t discipline. It’s sleep.
The alternative is end-of-day. You look at the daily chart after a close, you decide, you place an order with a stop attached, and you go to bed. The order works while you sleep. Then you look again the next evening.
What end-of-day charts actually ask of you
About fifteen to twenty minutes on a normal evening, and longer on an evening when you’re deciding something.
Here is the routine in full. Check the positions you already hold. Check whether a stop or a target got hit. Run a scan. Look at the handful of names it returns. Place or adjust your orders. Close the laptop.
That’s it. There’s no screen-watching in it, and that’s the entire point.
But be honest with yourself about the trade-off. End-of-day means fewer trades, held for days or weeks rather than minutes. If you want the fast feedback of intraday, you’ll find this boring. The dullness is doing the work for you, and you will still feel it.
One method across stocks, forex and commodities
Most catalogues in Singapore are priced per market. There’s a stock course, a forex course, an options course, and you buy the one that matches whichever market you’re curious about this year.
The money is the obvious part of that. What costs you more is learning a different set of rules for each market, because the rules don’t transfer.
Price structure looks much the same across liquid markets. A range is a range on a gold chart and on a Singapore bank. So a method built on structure travels, and a method built on one market’s quirks does not.
Now the limits, because they are real. Currencies trade around the clock and gap less. Commodities have contract months and roll dates. Position sizing changes completely between a stock and a futures contract. So one method doesn’t mean one set of numbers, and a school that tells you it does is skipping a lesson.
The coding question
Some of the best-reviewed programmes here are built on Python. Heicoders is the clearest example, and it is a genuinely good course for the person it is built for.
But if you don’t code, and don’t want to learn, that’s the wrong door for you. It isn’t a worse door, just a different one.
So ask each school one plain question. Can I run this method with a broker platform and a free charting site, or do I have to build something first?
Six things to ask before you pay
Send these by email and keep the reply.
- Tell me whether the method works on end-of-day charts, or needs me watching the open.
- Tell me which session your example trades come from.
- Tell me how many minutes it takes on a normal evening, and how many on a deciding evening.
- Confirm the same method applies to stocks, forex and commodities without a second purchase.
- Confirm I do not need to code, or configure anything myself.
- Give me a realistic number of trades a month.
Number four is the one that costs money later. Ask it in writing.
Ours, and where it doesn’t fit
We teach end-of-day swing trading, with one set of rules applied to stocks, forex and commodities, and no coding anywhere in it. The Trading Mastery Program is S$3,580, paid once, and that price is on the site.
After the course there is a two-day live bootcamp every quarter that you can re-sit as often as you like, a private student group, and twelve months of our daily signals service. After those twelve months the signals are S$1,200 a year if you want to keep them, and nothing else changes if you drop them.
Spencer publishes a dated log of 404 trades with the losing ones left in. That’s evidence he trades, and evidence he reports honestly. It isn’t evidence of a return, and we won’t dress it up as one.
Now who should skip us. If you want to day-trade, this is the wrong method, and Singapore has people who teach it properly. If you want to code your own systems, Heicoders is the better fit. And if you want the lowest verifiable three-year cost with ongoing community access, Heicoders beats us there too, at every subsidy tier.
If you are weighing us against the other big names, we wrote an honest 4-way comparison with Collin Seow, Rayner Teo and Adam Khoo, with each one’s strongest case.
What the evening constraint doesn’t fix
Trading after the close removes the sleep problem. It doesn’t remove the risk, and it doesn’t make a method work.
You’ll still have losing months. You’ll still be tempted to check a position at lunch. The constraint you’re solving here is time of day. It’s a real one, but it’s the smallest of the problems you’re taking on.
If a school implies otherwise, that’s the thing to notice. Quietly, and then decide.