No, that's a common misconception.

You can start investing in stocks with as little as $3000-$5,000 as your starting capital.

Within 3 months, you should be able to make your own investment decisions in the stock market.

Including how to analyze the quality of the business, management and value the stock.

Value investing are more medium to long-term in nature.

Value investing is a stock investing method popularized by Warren Buffett. We see stocks as owning shares of an actual business. When the business grows, we expect the share price to grow too, provided we bought it at an undervalued price.

Stock trading is not concerned about the value of the business, they are short term in nature and often involve margin/leverage.

No, that's a common misconception. Gamblers treat the stock market like a casino.

Investors treat the stock market as a platform to buy shares of great companies they like and understand, so they can grow together with it over the long term.

Investors in other asset classes, such as real estate and gold, should also learn how to invest in stocks because from 1928 to 2023, stock returns (S&P 500) outperformed real estate and gold.

Source: New York University.

If you use financial advisors or bankers to help with your investments, it is always a good idea to learn it yourself so that you will be more holistic in your thinking about their advice and suggestions.

Have you attended other value investing courses before? That's good. Many VIM® mentees/students used to participate in other value-investing group courses but could not apply because they were conducted in large groups. With VIM®, because we only teach in small groups of 4 or 1:1, they finally applied and acquired value investing skill they can use for life.

Invested in an ETF or unit trust? Why not also learn how to pick individual companies within your circle of competence so you may invest in ETF or unit trust and pick certain high-conviction companies for potential outperformance in the stock market?

Burnt in the stock market because you listened to stock tips from friends or families? VIM® can help you learn and acquire the proper checklist and mental systems so you can make your own investment decisions next time instead of unthinkingly listening to people (: Plus, you can use this skill for life.

Stay calm if you are a complete beginner in stocks. Many of our mentees started as one, too, and they have come a long way since then.

Easy. We are more genuine. It will be more like a mentorship than an investment course because we ONLY teach 1:1 or in small groups of 4 (instead of large groups of 20-30 pax or more) over a year-long learning session.

Also, unlike other courses, we promise it's a one-time investment for the one-year coaching for a skill you can use for life. We will NEVER upsell you to other more "advanced courses" or ask you to pay more money to teach you more "advanced lessons".

Plus, we only teach LIVE (not video recordings), so you will be mentored/taught by Chris himself, the founder, instead of coaches under him.

So, overall, VIM's focus on deep learning and developing meaningful relationships with each of the mentees/students is what makes it different from other value-investing courses in Singapore.