CSI Technical Analysis Course

[sheikhsadik]

Did anyone take the Technical Analysis Course offered by Canadian Securities Institute?

https://www.csi.ca/student/en_ca/courses/csi/tac.xhtml#tabview=tab0 It says that passing the exam gives you exemption from writing the cmt level 1. Any thoughts ???

[tjack82b]

Any course offered by CSI is overpriced and dumbed down. Only do their courses if your employer requires it and pays for it.

[geo]

^ Truth.

[M4tt30]

@tjack82b

Any course offered by CSI is overpriced and dumbed down. Only do their courses if your employer requires it and pays for it.

Agreed. I’ve taken a few CSI exams, they test you on the dumbest material that doesn’t help produce any better people in the industry. If anything it gives them a skewed sense of what is important and ruins it even further. CSI sucks.

[dwheats]

@M4tt30

@tjack82b

Any course offered by CSI is overpriced and dumbed down. Only do their courses if your employer requires it and pays for it.

Agreed. I’ve taken a few CSI exams, they test you on the dumbest material that doesn’t help produce any better people in the industry. If anything it gives them a skewed sense of what is important and ruins it even further. CSI sucks.

Which other exams have you taken?

I took CSC and the exam was a total joke. However I did enjoy learning about the regulatory environment as I had no previous exposure to it.

[former_trader]

Don’t take any CSI course unless you absolutely have to.

[former_trader]

Don’t take any CSI course unless you absolutely have to.

[M4tt30]

@dwheaton

Which other exams have you taken?

I took CSC and the exam was a total joke. However I did enjoy learning about the regulatory environment as I had no previous exposure to it.

I’ve taken the CSC and Investment Management Techniques through CSI. They were both so terrible that I told my boss I wasn’t going to do the CIM because it added zero value for me. I got the feeling that CSI courses are for the Investors Group/Edward Jones type people that want to be able to say “Hey, I’m a Certified Investment Manager!” to sound like you know what you’re talking about.

[tjack82b]

^ that’s pretty much it. And since there is so much turnover amongst financial advisors, CSI is able to charge a ton for these courses. I always chuckle when I pass by the financial advisor’s office at my bank and see his IFIC certificate hanging proudly on the wall.

[Matt_Likes_Analysis]

i’ve taken plenty b/c i’ve had to. csc, cph, wme, derivatives, options, futures. all are very very bad and required no studying. series 7 and series 65 are slightly less bad but very close.

just take the CMT exams if you want to learn about TA.

[hotdawg]

i took it, it was really straightforward, i didn’t find it useless it was a good refresher on my basic TA knowledge, took a weekend to study for it and it gives CMT lvl 1 exemption

[former_trader]

@tjack82b

^ that’s pretty much it. And since there is so much turnover amongst financial advisors, CSI is able to charge a ton for these courses. I always chuckle when I pass by the financial advisor’s office at my bank and see his IFIC certificate hanging proudly on the wall.

It’s a cash grab.

[dwight_chang]

long shot but willing to sell the textbook to me ?