Iris Yuan Stock Sniper Course Review: Truth About The Trading Strategies & Mentorship Upsell
TL;DR
I would not recommend enrolling in this course unless the following conditions are met:
- Concrete proof of performance is shown from a verified brokerage account.
- Evidence that her strategies have a real edge through robust backtesting and live results.
- Demonstrated long-term results from past students, not just cherry-picked winning trades.
Why I’m Writing This
I wish a review like this existed when I was deliberating whether to enroll in Iris Yuan’s Stock Sniper Course.
Her pitch is compelling: Trade only one hour a day. This idea is based on the “power hour” — the first hour after the market opens, when prices tend to move sharply due to large institutions opening, closing, or adjusting their positions. On the surface, the logic made sense.
So, I entered her sales funnel, watched the webinar, and eventually paid for the weekend live course.
Background & Credibility Claims
In her presentation, Iris shares her story: she was once a DBS bank manager, became disillusioned with corporate life, and invested a large portion of her savings into multiple day-trading courses before finding success.
During the webinar and course, she showed Excel-style documents of her trading performance. I was naive to take these at face value — her story and delivery are convincing.
What Should Have Been Presented
If you’re teaching people to trade, the bare minimum is to:
- Log in to your brokerage account live.
- Show a complete equity curve from your trading journey.
In 2025, even screenshots can be easily faked — let alone an editable spreadsheet.
About the Strategies Taught
She teaches four strategies over the weekend. In hindsight, they are essentially candlestick patterns with loose correlations to the broader index.
If you were to backtest them on random stocks, it’s unlikely they would show a statistically significant edge.
However, during the workshop, the examples look highly convincing because the charts are cherry-picked to illustrate success.
The Reality Check
Consider this:
- An engineer needs 3–4 years in university before making a living.
- A doctor studies for 5 years before practicing.
Do you really believe you can become a consistently profitable trader after watching a few videos and attending a two-day course?
The Real Goal: Mentorship Upsell
A significant portion of the workshop (about 30% of the time) is spent promoting her mentorship program.
The price is, in my opinion, exorbitant — and the upselling is relentless.
Lack of Support and Community
After the two-day course ends, there is no further support from Iris Yuan unless you sign up for the mentorship program.
There is also no community platform — like a Telegram group — where students can interact and share experiences.
I suspect this is intentional, to prevent students from communicating and eventually realizing they have been misled.
Beware of Online Reviews
Her team did a great job marketing her — including features on Yahoo Finance, Trustpilot, and a podcast by Modern Wealth Academy.
During the workshop, Iris promised students extra bonuses, like cheat sheets or other perks — if they left 5-star reviews on the last day of the workshop.
If you look closely at the Trustpilot reviews or Iris Yuan's Facebook reviews, you'll notice many are written on the same day and at similar times — a sign that students are essentially held hostage.
Such tactics seriously call into question the authenticity and reliability of those ratings.
Final Verdict
The course feels less like a serious trading education and more like a sales pipeline for an expensive mentorship.
Without verified, long-term performance data — both from Iris and her students — there’s no reason to believe the strategies work in real-world conditions.
I would strongly advise caution before signing up.
That said, if the conditions I outlined earlier (concrete proof of performance, real edge in strategies, and long-term student results) can be met, then it might be worth reconsidering.
If you are a former student like myself, feel free to share your experience in the comments.
Thank you for creating this blog review. I wished there was such review before I signed up.
ReplyDeleteI attended her 2 days course and eventually signed up the MTE program. Her up selling during the 2nd day was really good. But soon I released it was too good to be true.
After 1 year of MTE program, I will not recommend anyone to join. Paying 40k for it, I expected more value.
She doesn't share her brokerage account P&L to her mentees which feels suspicious. Felt she wasn't 100% focused in the program, more value trades should have been called out. Instead depending on mentees to scan out or alert the group.
Her day trades were disappointing, hardly can get much %profits by following her trades. Then she will MIA after 20mins from market open.
She'll only encourage mentees to share only their profits. Mainly those with high profits are ones who uses options which she does not teach.
Today I'm 40k poorer and my trading account is not growing as how she shared during her course on the 2nd day. Until today, I beat myself up for being too gullible and believing in such program.This is purely my own experience, experience may defer for other mentees.
I was trying to find a proper channel to warn ppl about Iris's mentorship. i find trust pilot might be a proper channel but so surprisingly that all were good reviews. I am looking for someone who can do the honest posting with me.
ReplyDeleteI have attended a few courses over 7yrs and I learnt alot and still grateful for the experiences I gained. This is my first time putting in such a terrible review for a course I attended- Iris Yuan. I don't recommend this to anyone. I signed up her 1yr mentorship @40k because she said her goal is to reach out to as many people as possible to help them to achieve financial freedom and she was very confident that day trade will generate consistent monthly income. After attending it, I personally find it as a scam.
1st, she only trade with her mentees on Mon - Wed. She sends her day trade list 15min before market opens and then MIA 30mins or an hour after that. she posted less than 5-7 day trade alerts per week and most of it she either invalidated later or resulted in a lost. 2nd, most of her NLT ideas were from the mentees. 3rd, she did not keep tracking of both day trade and NLT alerts. If she keep track her day trade alerts, there will be more number of invalidated and losing trades. NLT is better like 55% but this does not cover the 40k course fees. 4th. I wrote in to ask for refund but they did nothing about it. They are also not afraid of me going to Case. They only offer to extend another 6months of the mentorship if I send in my NLT idea to Iris every week in order to qualify the extension. I shared this to a lot of my trading friends, and they find it as a joke. Since I paid 40k, shouldnt she try to send NLT to her mentee to generate income? 5th, if you joined her free telegram channel " The stock sniper", the NVDA was one of the few winning day trade over the 2months.
If this is a 40k life time mentorship, i can still swallow the stupid action for joining this mentorship. But it is 40k for 1yr. I wanted to share on her trustpilot but very surprising to see so many good reviews. If any of the ex mentee saw my review and also experience the same thing, I hope we can post it on her trustpilot too. If I post it alone, reader will think I am trying to create troubles. If there is someone who can stand up together with me, I will definitely 100% add on my honest review too. 40k is not a small sum.
Oh dear I actually paid $697 for her 2 day course but have not attended yet. Do you think it's possible to get a refund?
ReplyDeleteHi everyone! I saw this thread and thought maybe I’ll share my experience as a current mentee joined in Feb 2026.
ReplyDeleteIf you already paid for the course I think it’s worthwhile to just attend it, but be prepared to be constantly bombarded with upsell and the team using constantly psychological marketing to make you feel fomo not to join the mentorship. You’ll understand what I mean when you join the online class. Honestly we paid $697 and devoted 2 full days of our time on this to only realize that 25% of the course time was spent by her team and her to eventually convince you to join the mentorship. Here’s a bit of a breakdown:
1) one guy who appears at the start of the day who will talk about iris and hype her up more like a hype man.
2) she will talk about her story and how she was not well to do working corporate blah blah and want financial freedom and how she achieve it
3) she will share her stories of her mentees and cherry pick success cases to share their rise to becoming a successful trader (I’m sure maybe 1-2 did eventually turn out ok but I’m sure hundreds more didn’t)
4) She will talk a lot about winners mentality and very broad motivational ideas and content (with the goal of making you feel convinced to make a change in your life by joining this mentorship). This is a common strategy used by ‘gurus’ to convince you to sign a package with them.
But honestly who needs all this when we already paid the course fees and purely here to learn. Not waste 1/4 of the 2 days listening to all the other bull (no pun intended). To be honest I feel, yes she does want to teach but she’s also a business woman and the latter is more obvious and prominent. She’s here to make money and honestly I think she earns at least 1M a year from the courses as compared to $100k from trading (that’s like 10x!). So her main cash cow is gullible students like me and you who pay exorbitant price to join the mentorship and mind you it only last for a year!
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ReplyDeleteOk so, I attended the course in Jan and joined the mentorship in Feb. I’m still in the mentorship program currently, but honestly I wished I didn’t join instead. As mentioned above, actually all the points are valid. Let me just add on top of the above from my perspective:
1) First, she stopped day trading with her mentees already. Or at least since I joined, she has not shared a single day trade at all. Most were NLT trades and I actually I lost MORE money than earn by her ‘Learn from Trade Signals’. Her lose rate + invalidated trade rate is higher than her winning rate, and mind you she shares very limited trades (4-5 a month), I would expect more since I paid so much to join the mentorship. Well I’ve 9 more months to go so let’s hope she shares more winning trades to at least cover the mentorship fees paid (I’m not even expecting to cover the losses from following her trade signals).
2) While we paid so much to join the mentorship, I feel honestly she is not very much present in it. She was smart enough to create a culture in the group where the goal is to self learn so you need to like learn and pick up things yourself, AND encourage others to share and reply to the questions posted by other members. Her reasoning is that learning is best when you are thrown into the deep end and I get it, but honestly, if you pay so much wouldn’t you want to make your learning convenient and get answers from the shifu herself? Especially when you’re talking about trading here, every mistake and losing trade is a EXPENSE in stock trading.
3) She’s starting to realize that she can’t handle everything so now she’s devised a new plan where she plans to focus on working on the marketing funnel and conning new students and earn millions from there and outsource the mentorship work to her mentees. Let me explain, so recently (just 1-2 weeks ago) she posted an application for those mentees who want to also become mentors. She asked them to apply and submit their trade reports and journals so she can assess their suitability. And guess what you get in return? An additional free 1 year of membership. Like hello, you ask people to do work for you and you pay them nothing?? Instead you position it as a in her words ‘sponsorship’?? Wow, this one i don’t know to laugh or to cry when I saw it.
That being said, if I were to do things differently, I would do it as such:
1) Still attend the 2 day course. I’m a business student, graduated from NTU and my first job upon graduation was at SGX and yet I still did learn a thing or two in her 2 day workshop.
2) DO NOT join the mentorship. No matter how FOMO you feel don’t join! She and her team will try their best to convince you with all the marketing arsenal they have up their sleeve, but don’t fall for it. It’s not worth paying THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. Cos like I say, after paying so much you might end up even paying more with your losses AND not actually receive much guidance at all!
3) After the 2 days online workshop, run though again the teachable free content she gave out AND the 2 day workshop recording, multiple times! At least 3 times in my opinion! That way you get to really internalize everything and commit to memory especially some of the nice looking pre-market gap charts.
4) Paper trade. Sign up for a trading view (4 panel screen account) and IBKR lite account and paper trade. Make MISTAKES here and learn from it. Trust me, don’t live trade until you are profitable on paper trade, i made such a mistake. AND don’t forget to journal! VERY IMPORTANT! That way you get to learn and remember the wins and losses so you can repeat / avoid them in the future.
So yup that’s it! I wish I knew this earlier, but this is my honest 2 cents worth! That being said, the community in the mentorship program has been awesome, and the people in there are all very helpful and nice. I wouldn’t mind paying $3k to join the community but for definitely not THOUSANDS, cos it really is not worth it.
Hope you all find this helpful. Peace out! All the best in your trading guys!
I attended her 2day workshop in mid 2025 And during the workshop she was promoting her mentorship at 15k/yr.The mentorship was to be centered around NLT trades and she would be giving out NLT trades signals with exact entries and stop losses.For me it was a business decision. If i can recover my fees and make money and the same time learn the strategies, it makes business sense. So i enrolled and will be finishing the mentorship soon. Her NLT trade signals were a disappointment- win rate is not as high as she claimed, quite a no of trades gets invalidated and winning trades rarely hits her easy room 2R target. And she is not transparent. She claims she takes the trade herself but doesn’t maintain a transparent spreadsheet to show her results. When asked her to share her management of her trades - her answer is each one has different expectations and should manage accordingly.To me this is bull shit. If she as a shifu cannot show results , doesn’t make sense pursuing her methodology. I taught she was genuine but she is making more money from her mentorship, I believe could be more than a million, than her trading.For those contemplating to join her mentorship-ask for accountability and transparency. And monthly subscription.If she is confident she would do it but i am very sure she won’t
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