For the unacquainted, the feelings of fear, uncertainty, apprehension and self-doubt are common enough to stop them from taking the journey towards investing and trading. Beyond Insights is on a mission to bring out the best in people and to lead them on their financial, investing and trading journey by providing a comprehensive education in investment and trading. Beyond Insight’s director, chief trainer and coach Kathlyn Toh is a professional investor and trader with more than two decades of experience. She earns her wealth from global indices, US stocks, options and commodity futures. Despite the worries about the volatile global economy, she has been making 200-300% returns from the stock market in the past four years. Before becoming a full-time trader, Toh was an accomplished corporate leader with a decent salary. However, when she started to plan for her retirement, she realised that she would not be able to save enough to retire comfortably. “The ability to retire comfortably is a basic requirement for everyone in this day and age. I realised I must do something about it and began to explore all the different vehicles to make money – property, internet marketing, multi-level marketing – before discovering that financial investment is the best vehicle for me,” she says. Toh attended numerous seminars and workshops to equip herself with the knowledge of the right strategies and principles for successful trading and investment. While she found success, she has made her share of mistakes and missteps, and is adamant that her students do not have to undergo the same experience and will still make profit. She supplemented her trading and investment knowledge with psychology courses and became a certified neuro linguistic programming (NLP) master practitioner and certified master coach. “Even though there are many classes out there to teach people about their investment and trading options, what I find most lacking is trading psychology. Strategy-based workshops are not sufficient to make people confident enough to actually start investing their money,” says Toh. Together with co-founder and chief executive officer Terence Teoh, Toh identified what was missing from these trading and investment classes: equipping students with the ability to deal with their natural emotions and master their subconscious mind – their fear, greed and hope. That was when Beyond Insights was born in 2008. Having learnt from their personal experiences, Teoh and Toh know that strategy plays a minor role in becoming a successful investor and trader. The co-founders believe that success in investment and trading is 90% psychology and money management and 10% strategy. This, according to them, is the ‘top secret’ of all successful investors and traders. With Toh’s qualifications in NLP, Beyond Insights is able to give its students this edge by conditioning them with empowering beliefs and habits about trading and investing so that they will be able to trade and invest with absolute confidence and clarity. This makes Beyond Insights training programmes unique – they do not just provide students with the education in stock market investment and trading, they complete this knowledge by making students mentally prepared for trading and investment. “We have students from all walks of life and with varying experience in trading and investing. Some are experienced while others have never done any investment or trading before. We have accountants, business owners, corporate executives, doctors, retirees and even fresh graduates with no work experience,” shares Teoh. Beyond Insights personalises their programmes so that people of different experience and financial means are able to kickstart their trading and investment journey with comfort, consistency and confidence. As a result, the company has assisted a number of successful investors and traders who have achieved financial freedom with a capital of as little as RM2,000 and by spending less than 30 minutes a day to invest and trade. “Investing doesn’t take much time. Learning how to invest successfully is not rocket science, it is simple. We have a structured and accelerated learning process that speeds you up. We will show you how to do it,” says Teoh. Beyond Insights’ complete education in stock market investment and trading includes the Trading for Consistent Success course. This course on trading psychology and money management provides the foundation for all budding traders who are keen to sharpen their minds and meet their financial goals. Besides that, the Power Investing course, which focuses on growth stock screening and smart marketing timing, provides students with insights into applicable lessons including screening for and identifying the best stocks for value and growth investing, determining the best price at which to buy, money management, portfolio tracking, deciding the right time to buy and sell depending on whether one is a short-term or mid-term trader, and protecting risks and profits. Students can also complete other courses in CFD (contract for difference), options, and futures, depending on their interests and experience. The lessons are integrated with face-to-face group coaching sessions by professional traders, position sizing and planning blueprints to guide students with, and complementary trading platforms and tools so that students can start trading as soon as they are ready. Beyond Insights also organise free investment talks to introduce members of the public to ways they too can attain financial freedom through investing and trading. For more information, visit www.beyondinsights.net or call 03-7490 2111.