TC,
HRE course is an on-line affair done at one's own pace. It cost me $80 as I recall, which entitles one to 30 days of access to the course material, which is voluminous. I printed out most of it for personal study beyond the course time-frame and it pretty much fills a two-inch thick binder. There is virtually no fluff. Tons of chart examples of recent vintage (mostly 1999 if memory serves)explaining the concepts. Alan is (deeply) into price pattern based TA as opposed to heavily featuring indicators. This greatly expanded my chart viewing beyond my old stochastic-rsi-price-look-for-divergence habits. I think the two styles complement each other-he seems to read a chart so well he uses indicators mostly for confirmation of price. Briefly, so I don't run on too long, other features:
Price ($80)is for Everyman versus the $3000 electronic Level II seminars.
This course is not for Level II scalping but for short term trading and (longer term)daytrading, stuff you can use with a Datek or E-Trade account. You get e-mail access to the teacher (which is always Alan himself in my experience)and every question was answered with a promptness (sometimes minutes!)and detail that exceeded my expectations. At the end there is an exam and a thorough assessment by Alan of your strengths and weaknesses.
Negatives:
At the risk of sounding like a shill for this fellow (no connection other than we both live in the beautiful state of Colorado)there isn't much to say on the downside. Thirty days is not long enough to master the material but this can be overcome by the somewhat laborious (in my case-I might have made it more complicated than necessary) process of printing it all out and arranging it in a binder. Futhermore, at the end of the course he invited me to e-mail any further questions, an offer which I have shamelessly exploited over the past month or so, so hard to really criticize a thirty day limit that hasn't been enforced <g>. Oh, there is an online lecture that accompanies the course and it is great. Unfortunately, I couldn't get my audio working. In cases like this he makes a casette available for an extra $20. Ostensibly, in honor of my being his first Colorado student, and perhaps in sympathy for my being computer-challenged, he sent me mine without charge.
My advice would be to visit his website (sorry, not sure how to put the blue URL in this post-hardrightedge.com), peruse the free stuff and if it is your cup of tea, go for it! Hope this is useful and that I haven't gone on too long.
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