{"id":1723,"date":"2017-01-02T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T06:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2017-01-02T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T06:25:07","slug":"practical-index-investing-course-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Practical Index Investing Course is Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/course.valueofsimple.ca\">My online course to guide you through becoming a do-it-yourself investor is now complete<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Practical_Index_Investing_for_Canadians_Syllabus_2017.pdf\">Click here to download the final syllabus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank everyone who signed up for the early access period, some of whom signed up over half a year before expected completion on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1506\">little more than an outline and a promise<\/a> (and a clever quote from the Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy). I ended up a month late on delivering the completed course, with some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1647\">entirely reasonable extenuating circumstances<\/a>. Having those paying customers patiently waiting was hugely motivating, and kept me going even as the work ballooned. <\/p>\n<h3>About the Course<\/h3>\n<p>The course is your complete guide to all the practicalties involved in becoming a do-it-yourself investor with index funds or ETFs, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coming up with a basic plan to guide your investing.<\/li>\n<li>Assessing your risk tolerance, and understanding the risk involved in investing.<\/li>\n<li>Creating an account and purchasing an investment.<\/li>\n<li>Choosing between your TFSA and RRSP.<\/li>\n<li>Tracking your gains and reporting your investment income on your taxes.<\/li>\n<li>Managing your behaviour and setting up good processes for long-term success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What Does Complete Mean?<\/h3>\n<p>I say the course is complete, but what exactly does that mean? Well, I&#8217;ve delivered on all the essential modules in the syllabus, and what I had originally envisioned<sup>1<\/sup>. That doesn&#8217;t mean that now I&#8217;m going to unplug and ignore it. I&#8217;m a strong believer in continuous improvement, and will keep tweaking the course to refine the content that&#8217;s there, and add material to address questions as they come up. The course platform has a discussion section, which will help identify areas that people may be having trouble with. I also plan on running a few webinars through the year &#8212; a feature other courses charge extra for &#8212; in case people want more chances for discussion and Q&#038;A. <\/p>\n<p><small>1. Note that a few minor changes were made to the structure since the original outline, in particular much more information in the middle sections, and I realized that there was a lot of overlap between sections 5 and 9, so those were streamlined.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My online course to guide you through becoming a do-it-yourself investor is now complete. Click here to download the final syllabus. I want to thank everyone who signed up for the early access period, some of whom signed up over half a year before expected completion on little more than an outline and a promise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}