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Step by Step Investing: A Beginner's Guide to the Best Investments in Stocks
Create a Simple Investing Strategy and Beat the Stock Market Game
Wall Street has brainwashed both of us...It's brainwashed you into thinking that you need to 'beat' the stock market to achieve your financial goals. Is it a coincidence that to do this,you need to pay for advice and brokerage fees from those same Wall Street firms?
Wall Street has also brainwashed investment analysts like me. We're made to believe that everyone needs our advice and that advice needs to be a complicated investing strategy of timing and trading.
It was only when I got off Wall Street and onto main street that I realized the truth. Spend enough time with real investors and you realize they just want a simple investing strategy that will help reach their financial goals. They want it laid out in a way that's easy to follow and they don't want to lose sleep every night worrying about their money.
That's what this book is about!
This book is the first in a series of four, outlining a step-by-step process for a simple investing strategy. This book will get you started in what investing is really about and how to build an investing plan that's right for YOUR goals.
We'll start with the ten investing basics that every investor must know and how to actually win the stock market game. I'll show you how to get started investing and a step-by-step approach to build your own investing plan.
In this book you'll learn:
The only way to win the stock market game by playing it YOUR way (pg. 11) The 10 investing basics that will keep you from making the bad investment decisions that cost people money (pg. 15) How to pick investments that are right for YOUR goals (pg. 54) How to maintain your portfolio without having to watch the markets every day, or even every month (pg. 61) If you're ready to stop playing games with your money and ready to stop worrying about retirement, scroll up and buy Step-by-Step Investing.
Other Investing Books only Offer Academic Theories and Vague Investing Strategies
Through study for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and for my own portfolio, I've seen my share of the vague strategies and theories in other investing books. For this book, I wanted more than the usual suspects of P/E ratio and the author's opinion of the best stock investments. This book is more than a superficial how-to for mutual funds investing or stock analysis.
Step-by-Step Investing lays out a simple investing strategy that does what none of the other investing books even try...it matches your investing strategy with YOUR financial goals.
After laying the groundwork with investing basics and the reason why investors lose the stock market game, the book details six investing steps from how to set up an online account and buy stocks online to picking the best investments for your goals and a simple way to maintain your portfolio.
Unlike other investing books, Step-by-Step Investing is a complete wealth management book that lays out everything from how to budget your investing dollars to when to sell stocks. If you want an investing guide that matches your goals with the best investments in a simple strategy you can buy and hold, scroll back up and click buy.
Check out the rest of the investing books in the series for simple investing strategies in bonds, emerging market stocks and dividend stocks. Each investment guide can be read on its own or as part of the series.
Wall Street has brainwashed both of us...It's brainwashed you into thinking that you need to 'beat' the stock market to achieve your financial goals. Is it a coincidence that to do this,you need to pay for advice and brokerage fees from those same Wall Street firms?
Wall Street has also brainwashed investment analysts like me. We're made to believe that everyone needs our advice and that advice needs to be a complicated investing strategy of timing and trading.
It was only when I got off Wall Street and onto main street that I realized the truth. Spend enough time with real investors and you realize they just want a simple investing strategy that will help reach their financial goals. They want it laid out in a way that's easy to follow and they don't want to lose sleep every night worrying about their money.
That's what this book is about!
This book is the first in a series of four, outlining a step-by-step process for a simple investing strategy. This book will get you started in what investing is really about and how to build an investing plan that's right for YOUR goals.
We'll start with the ten investing basics that every investor must know and how to actually win the stock market game. I'll show you how to get started investing and a step-by-step approach to build your own investing plan.
In this book you'll learn:
The only way to win the stock market game by playing it YOUR way (pg. 11) The 10 investing basics that will keep you from making the bad investment decisions that cost people money (pg. 15) How to pick investments that are right for YOUR goals (pg. 54) How to maintain your portfolio without having to watch the markets every day, or even every month (pg. 61) If you're ready to stop playing games with your money and ready to stop worrying about retirement, scroll up and buy Step-by-Step Investing.
Other Investing Books only Offer Academic Theories and Vague Investing Strategies
Through study for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and for my own portfolio, I've seen my share of the vague strategies and theories in other investing books. For this book, I wanted more than the usual suspects of P/E ratio and the author's opinion of the best stock investments. This book is more than a superficial how-to for mutual funds investing or stock analysis.
Step-by-Step Investing lays out a simple investing strategy that does what none of the other investing books even try...it matches your investing strategy with YOUR financial goals.
After laying the groundwork with investing basics and the reason why investors lose the stock market game, the book details six investing steps from how to set up an online account and buy stocks online to picking the best investments for your goals and a simple way to maintain your portfolio.
Unlike other investing books, Step-by-Step Investing is a complete wealth management book that lays out everything from how to budget your investing dollars to when to sell stocks. If you want an investing guide that matches your goals with the best investments in a simple strategy you can buy and hold, scroll back up and click buy.
Check out the rest of the investing books in the series for simple investing strategies in bonds, emerging market stocks and dividend stocks. Each investment guide can be read on its own or as part of the series.
76 pages, Paperback
Published December 5, 2015
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About the author
Joseph Hogue
16 books11 followersI love talking investments and personal finance!!
*Stop by my two blogs: PeerFinance101.com and Crowd101.com *
Born and raised in Iowa, I graduated from Iowa State University after serving in the Marine Corps. I started my professional career as a commercial real estate agent and in corporate finance before finding my passion for investment analysis. I still love real estate as an investment and have managed my own rental properties since 2002.
After working as an investment analyst for nearly a decade, I decided to start two blogs on personal finance and crowdfunding. Finance in America is opening up to everyone through peer lending and crowdfunding and it is helping people do some pretty amazing things. I enjoy talking about how people can use the two 'alternative' funding sources in their everyday financial lives.
I've appeared on Bloomberg as an expert in emerging market investing and have led a team of equity analysts for sell-side research (stock investing research). Besides running two blogs, PeerFinance101 and Crowd101, I still work as a freelance investment analyst for advisors and institutional investors.
I hold the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, the gold standard for ethical and professional conduct in investment management, as well as a Masters in Business and dual degrees in finance and communications.
*Stop by my two blogs: PeerFinance101.com and Crowd101.com *
Born and raised in Iowa, I graduated from Iowa State University after serving in the Marine Corps. I started my professional career as a commercial real estate agent and in corporate finance before finding my passion for investment analysis. I still love real estate as an investment and have managed my own rental properties since 2002.
After working as an investment analyst for nearly a decade, I decided to start two blogs on personal finance and crowdfunding. Finance in America is opening up to everyone through peer lending and crowdfunding and it is helping people do some pretty amazing things. I enjoy talking about how people can use the two 'alternative' funding sources in their everyday financial lives.
I've appeared on Bloomberg as an expert in emerging market investing and have led a team of equity analysts for sell-side research (stock investing research). Besides running two blogs, PeerFinance101 and Crowd101, I still work as a freelance investment analyst for advisors and institutional investors.
I hold the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, the gold standard for ethical and professional conduct in investment management, as well as a Masters in Business and dual degrees in finance and communications.
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August 19, 2018
Its as the title says: its a beginner's guide. And its good at providing sound advice. It's easy to get confused with all the investing terms but this book explains them in simple ways without getting too deep.
July 9, 2019
Great book on getting started with investing!
Joseph offers a lot of insight starting with the basics of investing in this book. A good foundation to build on. I always get a ton of info from his YouTube channel videos as well.
Joseph offers a lot of insight starting with the basics of investing in this book. A good foundation to build on. I always get a ton of info from his YouTube channel videos as well.
August 3, 2020
I good primer or reminder of the basics of investing. It does remind you of some of the basics that provide focus. No one book on investing is enough, but this does provide some help.
July 22, 2023
Practical and Straightforward
Wish I had read this in my 20s or 30s
Good primer for anyone new to investing, sensible and clearly explained
Wish I had read this in my 20s or 30s
Good primer for anyone new to investing, sensible and clearly explained
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews