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Registered educational company · Amsterdam, Netherlands

An investing education company you can check before you trust.

We teach working parents and busy professionals to build and maintain their own globally diversified ETF portfolio in about one hour a month. Your money stays in your own account, at your own broker, in your own name. We never touch it.

Company recordPublic
Entity
The Institute of Trading & Investing
Registry
KVK 89463528verify ↗
VAT
NL004029476B82
Founded
2022 · Amsterdam
Custody
None. Never holds client funds.
Reviews
Trustpilot (public)read ↗
Founder
Sebastian Tudorprofile ↗
What this is

One idea, taught properly.

Most people don't fail at investing because they lack information. They fail because the model they were sold demands time they don't have. So we teach the opposite: a small number of fixed rules, a globally diversified portfolio, and a monthly routine short enough to survive a real family calendar.

Rules, not opinions

A written set of rules you follow whether the market is up or down. No signals, no calls, no daily decisions.

Your account, your name

You open the account. You place the orders. You can stop, sell, or ignore us at any moment without asking anyone.

Built to be boring

If the method needs your attention every week, it isn't the method we teach. An hour a month is the design constraint, not the marketing.

Programmes

Two ways in. Pick by language.

Same method, same rules, two languages. Each one runs on its own site, with its own pricing and terms. Both start with a free recorded masterclass.

English · Europe

Invest 1 Hour

The core programme, in English, for professionals across Europe who want to run their own ETF portfolio without it becoming a second job.

  • Free recorded masterclass to start
  • Account setup and first purchase, step by step
  • A monthly routine you can actually keep
Română · Romania

Investitor 1 Oră

The same method, taught in Romanian, for people building wealth in an environment where inflation does most of the damage.

  • Masterclass gratuit, în română
  • Curs de fundație pentru primul portofoliu
  • Mentorat 1-la-1, în limită de locuri

Start with the free masterclass.

About 23 minutes, recorded, watch it whenever. The whole method, start to finish — why it works, what you actually buy, and the rules that keep you in it. No card, and you can unsubscribe in one click.

Watch it in English →
Boundaries

What we don't do.

This list is the reason the rest of the page is worth reading. It is also the shortest way to find out whether we are what you were looking for.

  • We never hold, manage or have access to your money. There is no pooled fund, no managed account, no deposit to us. Your capital sits with a broker you choose and can withdraw from at will.
  • We do not give personalised investment advice. We are not a licensed or registered investment adviser. Everything we publish is general education. Nothing on our sites or in our programmes is a recommendation to buy or sell a specific instrument for your situation.
  • We do not promise returns, and we don't publish projections as expectations. Any figure used in teaching is an illustration of arithmetic, not a forecast. You can lose money, including in a globally diversified portfolio.
  • We do not run a signal service, a copy-trading room or a community you have to stay subscribed to. The point is that you leave able to do it yourself.
  • We do not hide that we earn broker commission. When we link to a broker we may be paid a referral fee by that broker. It costs you nothing extra, and it is disclosed at the point of the link. Choosing a different broker changes nothing about what we teach.
Sebastian Tudor, founder of The Institute of Trading & Investing, Amsterdam
Sebastian Tudor · Amsterdam
Founder

Who is behind this.

Sebastian Tudor. Engineer by training. Left Romania in 2010, worked on Dutch shipyards and in industrial controls, then spent years as a project manager in the Netherlands before this became the work.

He has managed his own capital in the markets since 2014, and started teaching in 2022. The Institute began with active trading and moved away from it — not because trading doesn't work, but because it demands a kind of attention most people with a job and children cannot honestly give it.

He is a parent. The one-hour-a-month constraint came from his own calendar before it was ever a product.

Full background · Reviews on this site

Questions

The questions people actually ask.

Do you ever hold or manage my money?

No. Not at any point, in any programme. You open an account in your own name at a regulated broker, and you place your own orders. We have no access to it, no trading authority over it, and no way to withdraw from it. If any investing educator asks you to transfer funds to them, that is where the conversation should end.

Is this financial advice?

No. We are an education company, not a licensed or registered investment adviser. We teach a general method. We do not assess your personal circumstances and we do not tell you what to buy. If you want advice tailored to your situation, speak to a regulated adviser in your own country.

Can I lose money?

Yes. Every investment carries risk, including a globally diversified ETF portfolio, and there are periods of years in which it falls. A rules-based approach is designed to keep you from making the situation worse. It does not remove the risk, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

Why is "trading" in the name if you teach ETF investing?

Because that is how the company started, in 2022, and we would rather keep an honest name than quietly rewrite our own history. The teaching moved to long-term ETF investing because that is what actually fits the people we work with. The old trading material is archived, not promoted.

Do you earn commission from brokers?

Yes, on some of them. If you open an account through one of our links, the broker may pay us a referral fee. It does not increase your costs, we disclose it wherever the link appears, and the method we teach works the same at any broker that gives you access to the same funds. You are free to open your account anywhere.

What does it cost?

It depends on the programme, and prices change, so we keep them on the programme pages rather than here. Every programme starts with something free: a recorded masterclass you can watch without speaking to anyone.

Where is the company registered?

Amsterdam, the Netherlands. KVK 89463528, VAT NL004029476B82. The registration is public and you can look it up yourself in under a minute.

The Institute of Trading & Investing

Investing education from Amsterdam. We teach people to run their own ETF portfolio in about an hour a month — and we never touch the money.

KVK 89463528 · Emmalaan 25, 1075 AT Amsterdam
NL004029476B82
contact@theinstituteoftrading.com

Institute

Risk warning. Investing involves risk, including the loss of the capital you invest. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. The value of investments can fall as well as rise, and you may get back less than you put in.

Nature of our content. Everything published by The Institute of Trading & Investing is general educational content. It is not personalised investment advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell any specific instrument. We are not a licensed or registered investment adviser. Consider your own circumstances, and take regulated advice in your own country if you need it.

Commission disclosure. We may receive a referral fee from brokers when someone opens an account through our links. This does not increase your cost and does not change what we teach.

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