Depends - the most important thing is to back yourself, and you can only really have a level of deep confidence if you've committed to learning more thoroughly than the rest. Fuck those shills. So say you'll only spend time listening to those with industry experience (PTFs, IBs or HFs) or those providing multiple years consecutive audited track records. Can you find a course with both? Maybe - but I've never seen one. But there are industry primers to read, events to gatecrash, people to tap up to ask advice, WSO for industry lingo immersion, and even GPT if you ask a sensible question. I don't trade stocks so I'm in no place to compare but I think the reason people find it hard is you need to treat the entire asset class as one instrument broken into pairs rather than focusing on say eurusd. That's inherent in pricing (triangulation, so gu=eu/eg) but also even though FX is liquid, it's not endlessly so, so switching between currencies is common practice to work large orders in. How long it takes you individually is something none of us could ever answer. but for the record - I mostly agree with everything posted above.