For investors who know the basics — and know their money could be doing more
Two days in Donegal. Real trading skills. AI tools that cut the research time down to almost nothing. Leave with clear vision and the confidence to act on it.
No pitch. Just a quick chat to make sure it's the right fit.
You have been in the market for a while. Or you were, once. Maybe you dipped in, it went up and down, you broke even, and life got in the way. Maybe you have been watching from the side, telling yourself you will get back to it.
The problem is not knowledge. You understand the basics. The problem is that you are doing it alone — trying to figure out charts, weigh up companies, and make decisions with no one around you who is doing the same thing.
And now AI has changed everything. It can do in minutes what used to take hours. But most investors have no idea how to use it. The gap between people who know how and people who don't is getting wider every month.
One attendee at the April weekend put it simply: "I spent over a year trading without a package. I was just about breaking even — up and down."
Another had not traded in years. She came hoping to get motivated again. She left with a clear plan and the confidence to act on it the next morning.
Every month you spend doing slow manual research, there are people finishing the same job in twenty minutes using AI. They are not smarter than you. They just have the tools and know how to use them.
You can do this online. You can buy a course. But one attendee in April said it better than any sales page could: "You do it online and you just think — I'll do that ten minutes later. You get distracted. A concentrated weekend, talking to others who are in the same boat and feeding off each other — there's no comparison."
The longer you wait, the more months pass where your money sits doing less than it could.
These are real attendees, filmed on the last day. Watch what they said — in their own words — about what changed for them.
Multiple attendees used this exact phrase when asked how confident they felt leaving versus arriving. Not twice as confident. Not ten times. A hundred.
One attendee's exact words — and he came as a returning delegate, not a first-timer. The room does something a screen cannot.
Scored the weekend 10 out of 10. Three reasons: the location, the speakers, the content. Then drove six hours home and said that was fine.
"I feel like I've been hit by a golden snowball."
Attendee, TICN Donegal weekend, April 2026"Tonight's Sunday and I know exactly what I need to do tomorrow — which shares to sell and which to buy, based on what the charts are telling me."
Attendee, leaving the April weekend
"This morning's experience at the lighthouse was amazing." — April attendee
Horse riding on Carrigart beach — one of the activities between sessions.
Owen, Geoff, and Andrew are not trainers who stopped trading. They are active in the market. One attendee in April said of them: "What they don't know you could write on the back of a fag packet."
The video below is from long-term members of Owen's trading community. It is there so you can hear — from people who have been at it for years — what working with Owen looks like over time.
Owen O'Malley has been doing this for over 20 years. Attendees in April described him as calm, patient, and able to take anything complex and reduce it to something a teenager could follow — without making you feel talked down to.
He replies to messages. He shows up. When the April weekend ended, he told everyone they could reach out if they got stuck. He meant it. "Owen's there in the background. If I get stuck I can reach out."
You could. Several people in April said exactly that before they came. On the last day, one of them said: "There is no comparison. You pick it up a lot faster. You're all in." Another said he would have learned 20 times less online.
Online you get distracted. In a room with people all doing the same thing, helping each other through the same problems — that is a different thing entirely.
Most people in April said the same thing before they arrived. "I knew it would be fairly heavy going." One person had never done more than a few ChatGPT prompts. She left confident.
The pace is managed. There are breaks, fresh air, and people around you going through the same thing. You are not left behind. And if something does not click on the day, Owen is reachable after.
One attendee flew in from Portugal. Another drove six hours home on Sunday and called it fine. The ones who travelled furthest tended to say the most.
Donegal is not just a nice backdrop. Being somewhere beautiful, away from your desk and your inbox, is part of why the learning sticks. "Full immersion." That is how one attendee put it.
You open your laptop. You know what to look for. You have a system that cuts the research time down to almost nothing. You have people you met in Donegal you can message when something looks interesting or confusing.
You are not guessing. You are not sitting at home trying to figure it out alone. You are not watching the market move and wondering if you should act.
One attendee left with "very clear vision." Another was setting up her own trading account the week she got back. Another already knew which shares he was selling and which he was buying — before he even got in the car.
That is what two days in the right room does.
3–4 October 2026 · Carrigart Hotel, Donegal
Two nights accommodation
All meals for both days
Full training programme
Welcome dinner, evening of 2nd October
Places are limited by the size of the venue. The April weekend filled up. This one will too.
No pitch. Just a quick chat to make sure it's the right fit.