Trade and Travel Reviews (2023) – Is Teri Ijeoma’s Course Scam?

The Trade and Travel course is one of the more recent additions to the courses on stock trading, especially day trading. 

The course was launched in 2017 and has only grown more popular since then.

However, “Trade and Travel” has become the subject of negative side talks with many claiming that the course creator sells the course on unrealistic promises.

It can be hard to know which side to listen to, especially if you are intent on learning how to make money trading stocks and want a course that promises and delivers. 

My review of the course is out and you can read it here right now. I have gone the extra mile to separate fact from fiction and present an unbiased breakdown of everything that the course is all about. 

You will learn what the Trade and Travel course is, what it contains, its target audience, reviews from past students, as well as its pros and cons. 

At the end of the review, you will know if the course is a gold mine or a booby trap. Alright, let’s get started.

What is Trade and Travel Course all about?

The Trade and Travel course is meant to teach its users how to trade with minimal risks and losses on the stock market and make a good profit.

Upon completing the training, you should (presumably) be an excellent day trader. And that means you’ll have mastered technical analysis and chart reading.

 Teri Ijeoma created the course after people who knew her and heard about her success in stock trading requested her to put them through in stock trading.

The course is mighty expensive but Teri claims that the training provided in it can fetch you an extra $200 every day.

That’s a very confident promise especially when you look at the unpredictable nature of stock trading. 

Who is it for?

The Trade and Travel Course isn’t for everyone just as stock trading isn’t for everyone even if you are an entrepreneur.

Trade and Travel is intended for any who’s into stock trading or day trading as the case may be.

Hence individuals trading solo can avail themselves of it. And so can those who are trading for companies. 

Let’s talk about them a little more.

Individuals Trading Solo

Individuals trading solo might be doing so with their funds. Otherwise, they might be managing other people’s funds.

In any case, solo traders often lack the funds and resources they would have had if they were trading for companies.

That’s why they need all the training they can get to minimize their risks and losses as much as possible so they can make the most of their limited resources.

To that end, Invest With Teri (or Trade and Travel) provides a clear learning structure complete with a curriculum and comprehensive lessons.

The course goes further to assist its learners by providing a community for interaction with other students at various levels of learning. 

Individuals Trading for Large Institutions 

These people usually have access to abundant funds and resources in the form of software that helps them stay in the know as to the latest market trends.

Nevertheless, every extra bit of knowledge is a plus and the Trade and Travel Course can provide that if Teri’s claims are anything to go by.

And of course, before you can trade for institutions, you must have more than just the basics of what stock trading is all about. 

That means you can use Teri’s course to learn stock trading up to a considerable level. 

Of course, before you can use Trade and Travel for your learning, you must be able to shell out the sum of money the course demands. And if you can’t, then the course is definitely not for you. 

Who is Teri Ijeoma?

Teri Ijeoma is an American stock market investor and the creator of the Trade and Travel course also known as Invest with Teri.

Teri Ijeoma has a rich history starting from her descent up to her business career. Speaking of the latter, she worked in various positions at different educational and non-profit institutions before she discovered that stock trading was the way for her.

Teri Ijeoma was born in June 1984 to a family of modest means. She liked the sciences when she was in high school but got a degree in business management from MIT.

Teri was introduced to financial markets while doing her internship at Morgan Stanley. Not too long after, she worked with Teach for America, a non-profit organization for free access to education for all people.

All this while, Teri was still interested in stock trading and she spent much time reading books and taking courses on the subject. That was how she realized that stock trading could be her main source of income.

Long story short, Teri made a lot of money from stock trading by applying what she learned and she decided to show others how to leverage stock trading to their advantage. 

And that’s how Trade and Travel was born. 

What is in the course?

The trade and Travel course is self-paced and comprises over 100 hours of video-based lessons.

There are seven (arguably eight) classes of education that Teri claims teach everything she should have known before investing.

You will learn technical analysis and chart reading as well as risk management for traders. 

Other highlights of the course include how to make money even when the stocks are going down, how to improve your chart reading success rate and how to accelerate earnings with options.

Trade and Travel is in two parts, the starter, and the advanced (VIP) program.

The former has only four classes while the latter has all seven or eight. You get to pay the full sum of money for the complete course and if you go with the starter plan, you pay half. 

Check below for the full summary of everything the course contains. 

Class 1: Introduction To The Stock Market

Class 2: Risk Management For Traders

Class 3: Introduction To Technical Analysis (Revamped)

Class 4: The 7-step IWT Trading Plan

Bonus: Trade Station: Quick Start Guide

Class 5: Shorting (VIP)

Class 6: Gaps and Globex (VIP)

Class 7: Intro to Options (VIP)

Then there are bonuses exclusive to the VIP program. They are; Group Coaching Calls, Student Study Groups, and Facebook groups. 

Pros of Trade and Travel Course

While Teri’s course has come under a lot of criticism (which we will get to in a moment), there are some likable things about the course. Let’s dig them out.

Access to a Community

Trade and Travel provides a community of fellow students and traders you can always rub minds with if you’re not clear with anything. 

Lifetime Access 

After paying for the course, you will have access to all its content for as long as the platform exists. Given the expensive pricing of the course, not having it would have been a real bummer. 

Expert Support 

From time to time, you will be able to consult with Teri’s team of coaches. On rare occasions, you can have one on one coaching sessions with Teri but that’s only if you are on the VIP plan. What’s more common is group masterclass sessions with Teri for those on the VIP plan.

Cons of Trade and Travel Course

Trade and Travel has several downsides that you can’t afford to ignore. The course specializes in day trading and day trading has its own set of negatives already. Plus, not everything Teri says about day trading is realistic.

But there is a lot more. Let’s get into it.

No Special Information in the Course Program

You heard that right. There is no information in the Trade and Travel course that you can’t find elsewhere. On YouTube for example.

Go on YouTube and type Globex or Shorting or Options (all in the VIP package alone) and you will see multiple channels popping up. They will teach all those topics clearly at little or no cost to you. 

No Real Trading Goes On in the Program

You will learn how to read market charts and do all sorts of analysis and prediction, but there is not even one example of a real trade going on where Teri applies the strategies she’s teaching you.

That means any result or claim in the program is fake and is merely being used for illustrative purposes. To quote Teri; “the materials and classes are for informative and illustrative purposes only and do not purport to show actual results. “

In effect, the training is all about looking at a particular trade in hindsight and learning what strategies and tactics could have made it turn out differently.

It’s like saying, oh, for this trade, if you had done this, you could have made this amount of money. Sounds easy right? However, executing real trades is not the same as looking at a past trade and claiming it was easy to see. 

$200 a Day Promise is Far-fetched in Day Trading 

I won’t say making $200 a day from day trading is impossible but hell has a better chance of freezing over.

Almost everything about day trading is based on speculation and any wrong guess about the trade’s direction is disastrous.

It’s so bad that up to 80% of all traders lose woefully and more than 75%  of traders quit within the first two years.

Besides, the nature of day trading demands that you have thousands of dollars in your trading account before you can even make anything.

Precisely, you need up to $25,000 to keep day trading. I don’t know about you but really, I think there are better ways to invest that money. 

Teri’s Money Comes from Course Sales

Teri Ijeoma talks a lot in her courses about how she’s making money from trading, but she doesn’t disclose financial details from her day trading business.

Instead she has taken to the internet to share how she became a course creator on Teachable and has made over $30,000,000 in course sales (some estimates say over $45,000,000)

In fact, Teri is Teachable’s most successful course creator.

It’s extremely rare to find a day trader that is making millions from day trading and the fact that Teri chooses to showcase her wealth through course creation is enough food for thought.

Who knows whether the real lesson Teri is trying to teach us is not how to make money through day trading but making money by selling your knowledge to others? 

Sky-high Pricing

For a course whose content is less than premium, $2,500 or $5,000 depending on the package you choose is just exorbitant.

There is nothing in the course that you can’t get for less than $50 from a good book on day trading. 

The truth is, you might even drop out of day trading before you make up to $5,000 from it. 

No Refunds 

Yes, that’s right. You can’t get your money back if you go in for the course no matter the package you choose.

Not allowing refunds is a very serious flaw for any course or platform especially when you are charging a salary earner’s monthly pay.

It just goes to show the ethics of the course creator and how he (or she in this case) feels about their production.

After all, if you are completely confident in the quality of your service, you shouldn’t be afraid to give your users a money-back guarantee of some form. 

Reviews from her students

Is Invest with Teri a scam?

Deciding whether Invest with Teri is legit or an outright scam is easier said than done.

The records show that to date, over 28,000 people have bought the Trade and Travel course and as expected, the success rate will be a mixed story. 

However, numbers don’t tell the whole story and you shouldn’t fall for them.

Teri’s course has reached thousands of people because of her impressive marketing strategies and many of those people would have been taken in by Teri’s sweet marketing catchphrases. 

For those that day trading worked for or is working for after using Teri’s course, you can’t rule out the role of guesswork. Besides, these people most likely had plenty of funds in their trading account to sustain their day trading and make reasonable gains.

My major gripe with Invest with Teri is that the wealth she flaunts comes mostly from her course sales. That can only mean that she is making little from day trading itself, if at all. 

Besides, Teri doesn’t use any real examples in her videos. All the figures and exciting stats she quotes are merely for illustrative purposes.

She even admits that the results are not real and the training in the videos should not be taken as trading advice.

What’s the point? It’s a game of uncertainty. 

On top of all that, the course carries an exorbitant price tag and the money is non-refundable. So if you later change your mind after paying for the course, you are on your own.

All the facts and the rest discussed in this article push Invest with Teri farther and farther away from legit territory.

And while I might not categorize it as a scam, I would definitely not recommend it. There are just too many accusing facts against it. 

FAQs

Before we draw the curtain on this review, I will attend to a few other questions in order to arm you with all you need to know about Invest with Teri. 

How long is the trade and travel course?

The Trade and Travel course is meant to last for eight weeks. The training is split into four sections and the recommended amount of time to spend on each section is two weeks. However, you can blitz through the whole curriculum in a week. 

How much is the trade and travel course?

The Trade and Travel course is billed at $2,500. The VIP upgrade is $2,500. You can pay the total of $5,000 at once or upgrade later and pay the difference. 

What do trade and travel mean?

Trade and Travel is how Teri sums up the luxury lifestyle you can finance with trading stocks. 

It’s her way of saying that you can make so much money trading stocks that you can, among other things, travel anywhere around the world as often as you like.