Financial Investing

Here's a book for individual investors, by an individual investor. I've made every mistake there is when it comes to money and investing, but I didn't give up. Along the way, I kept hearing about DRIPs (and DSPPs), and I thought that they were some outmoded investment models that went away after the discount brokers gave all of us retail investors a lot more trading choices and features.

It's been a tough year for investors. Many have seen their retirement accounts dwindle dramatically and are looking for a safe way to protect what they have and make back some of what they've lost. That's why the bestselling author team of Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth have created The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing.

Whether you're mired in loss aversion, suffer from anchoring bias, or you're sorting your portfolio into various mental accounts, investor biases will prevent you from maximizing your wealth. But you can learn to challenge your own biases and prevent costly investment errors! In Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio, veteran investor and advisor Michael M. Pompian delivers a thorough grounding in the most important investor biases you're likely to encounter when making crucial investment decisions.

This is an updated version of the book that accurately predicted the global stock market crash of 2008, the bursting of the real estate bubble, and Ben Bernanke's unprecedented overreaction via quantitative easing programs. First published in 2008, the book quickly became a best seller not just for its timely insight into precious metals investment but for its amazingly accurate prediction of a "roller-coaster crash"—the manipulated whipsaw between inflation, deflation, and back again.

Over the past century, if the wealthiest families had spent a reasonable fraction of their wealth, paid taxes, invested in the stock market, and passed their wealth down to the next generation, there would be tens of thousands of billionaire heirs to generations-old fortunes today. The puzzle of The Missing Billionaires is why you cannot find one such billionaire on any current rich list. There are a number of explanations, but this book is focused on one mistake which is of profound importance to all investors: poor risk decisions, both in investing and spending.

In my youth, I never thought I could own any property, let alone more than one. When I started my real estate business, I had no idea what to do or where to begin. I didn’t even know there were so many paths to consider. I wish I had someone guided me through the beginning stages of learning how to get into real estate. Years later, I’m happy to provide the shortcuts I wish I had known to get started. Now I’m making the income I never thought I could, and I’m now financially free to work when and how I want. The only regret I’ve ever had is wishing I had started sooner.

Whether driven by mass psychology, fear, or greed of investors, the forces of supply and demand, or a combination, technical analysis has flourished for thousands of years on the outskirts of the financial establishment. In The Evolution of Technical Analysis: Financial Prediction from Babylonian Tablets to Bloomberg Terminals, MIT's Andrew W. Lo details how the charting of past stock prices for the purpose of identifying trends, patterns, strength, and cycles within market data has allowed traders to make informed investment decisions based in logic, rather than on luck.

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.

Investing in ETFs for Dummies has all the basics you need to make calculated and profitable choices when investing in exchange-traded funds. ETFs make it possible for investors to quickly and easily gain exposure to wide swaths of the market. There are funds that are linked to popular market indices like the S&P 500, there are quirky thematic funds that allow you to invest in stuff like video game technology or breakfast commodities, and there's everything in between.

Unlock the secrets to financial success with How to Make Profit in Share Market by Mahesh Chandra Kaushik. This practical guide demystifies the complexities of the stock market, providing clear and actionable strategies to help you achieve consistent profits. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced investor, this book offers valuable insights into market trends, stock selection and risk management. Empower yourself with the knowledge to build a profitable investment portfolio.

Fiat Ruins Everything is an analysis of the debasement of the modern world from our banking system and real estate to our educational system and art. Learn why these systems keep getting worse and why Bitcoin will make things better. Fiat Ruins Everything delivers a knockout punch, unmasking the pervasive destruction caused by the fiat currency system while highlighting the hope found in Bitcoin.

If you feel you're "late to the party" when it comes to creating wealth through real estate investing, Think again! Now is the perfect time to realize your potential and accomplish measurable goals in just weeks, even if you're starting with limited capital. Financial Freedom has never been this accessible!

Devil Take the Hindmost is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to the present day. Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world.

Do you have dreams of becoming an entrepreneur? Are you tired of working for the big man and want to become your own boss? Are you afraid to invest in a business and then fail? If you relate to any of these questions, then this audiobook can help guide you and make you feel at ease about everything you will need to know and change to help you become a successful entrepreneur. I can’t assure you that you won’t be faced with failures during your journey of entrepreneurship, but I can teach you all the tools and skills you need to prevent as many failures as you can.

If you've ever watched the stock market spinning madly, stocks like GameStop going up 100 percent and then down 50 percent, and wondered whether you could take a slice of the action - the answer is yes! Learn how to trade based on what the charts tell you, and you can make great returns while limiting your risks. Marty Schwartz used technical trading to boost $40,000 to $20 million in a few years, and Ray Dalio (Bridgewater Associates) built a $10bn fortune setting up computer algorithms to look for good trades.

Essential stock trading terms you should know. Whether you're a new investor or a seasoned pro, it helps to have a solid glossary at your fingertips to provide quick clarification on a particular term or to expand your overall stock market vocabulary. This practical glossary audiobook compiles a list of 150 most common stock trading terms you’re likely to encounter. Every stock trading term is explained in detail, with clear and concise article style description and practical examples.

If you’re looking for the missing piece of your investing puzzle; this is it. Whether you’re a complete beginner who has never heard of an economic moat before today, or you have 30 years of experience, this will be one of the most important books on investing you will ever listen to, and it could be the key to you making life-changing money in the stock market.

Financial activism is how everyday people radically reimagine money as a tool for widespread well-being, instead of a weapon of absurdly increasing inequality. It's how we—the underestimated—collectively resist systems that cause harm to people and the planet for the sake of profit, reclaim wealth that's been stolen, and redesign our relationships with capital and one another, in ways big and small. The Financial Activist Playbook offers eight accessible, actionable, "choose-your-own-adventure" strategies for listeners to experiment with.

Financial advisor Alan Haft helps his clients reach their financial goals and increase their standard of living. Now, in You Can Never Be Too Rich, Haft uses his vast knowledge base, highly innovative investment concepts, and entertaining style of writing to create proven investment solutions that will help listeners minimize risk and take advantage of opportunities that lead to financial security for a lifetime. Haft walks listeners through the process of building and protecting wealth - and reveals the financial secrets that most investment professionals aren't aware of.

There's no reason your money should be sitting in a bank account. By learning value investing, you can reap the rewards of consistent, reliable gains that can make you a millionaire by the time you retire. Don't just work for your money - put your money to work for you and retire in style.