House Investing

Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking rebirth of Wall Street in the years between the wars. Focusing on the lives and fortunes of some of the era's most memorable traders, bankers, boosters, and frauds, John Brooks brings to vivid life all the ruthlessness, greed, and reckless euphoria of the '20s bull market, the desperation of the days leading up to the crash of '29, and the bitterness of the years that followed.

There’s no doubt that being a financial trader is one of the best ways to achieve this. Robbie Burns–aka The Naked Trader–knows this from experience. Twenty-two years ago he took the leap. Since then he has traded his way in stocks and shares from a few grand to over £3m ($5m).

Phil Town is now a very wealthy man, but he wasn't always. In fact, he was living on a salary of $4000 a year when some well-timed advice launched him down a highway of investing self-education that revealed what the true "rules" are and how to make them work in one's favor.

In The Smart Money Method, the stock-picking techniques used by top industry professionals are laid bare for investors. This is the inside track on how top hedge funds pick stocks and build portfolios to make outsize returns. Stephen Clapham is a retired hedge fund partner who now trains stock analysts at some of the world’s largest and most successful institutional investors. He explains step-by-step his research process for picking stocks and testing their market-beating potential.

Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world - studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up - has enthralled investors and Wall Street aficionados for two decades. In his engaging memoir Street Smarts, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years growing up a naïve kid in Demopolis, Alabama, to his fledgling career on Wall Street, to his cofounding the wildly successful Quantum Fund [omit George Soros], Rogers always had a restless curiosity to experience and understand the world around him.

Bob Pisani is senior markets correspondent for CNBC and has spent the past 25 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He has been on the front line of finance for all the major events of the last quarter century, including the Asian Financial Crisis, the dot-com bubble and collapse, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the Great Financial Crisis. What was it like to witness these events firsthand, at the center of the financial world? In Shut Up and Keep Talking, Bob tells a series of captivating stories that reveal what he has learned about life and investing.

In this deeply personal memoir, Schwab describes his passion to have Main Street participate in the growing economy as investors and owners, not only earners. Schwab opens up about his dyslexia and how he worked around and ultimately embraced it, and about the challenges he faced while starting his fledgling company in the 1970s. A year into his grand experiment in discounted stock trading, living in a small apartment in Sausalito with his wife, Helen, and new baby, he carried a six-figure debt and a pocketful of personal loans.

Are you a new real estate investor who is looking for where to start? Begin your real estate investing career today with three audiobooks jam-packed with actionable and easy to understand real estate advice. These audiobooks contain easy to follow tips, stories, examples, and much more to make you a successful real estate investor. This audiobooks set contains exactly what you need to get started as a real estate investor no matter if you are brand new to real estate or have some experience.

Value investing moves in and out of favor, but the data doesn’t lie. It has always worked, and will continue to work - as long as investors apply a value discipline and invest for the long term. In The Case for Long-Term Value Investing, experienced Wall Street pro Jim Cullen presents the eye-opening data that backs this up, explaining how investors can use the value approach for successful investing today, as well as sharing a wealth of fascinating stories from his time on the Street.

There are many investment vehicles in society today, but the most popular of them is real estate. Perhaps this is because it involves providing people with a basic need and shelter, and since everyone is looking for an affordable place to live, the demand is high - thus leading the prices to be sky high, which also means that the business is quite lucrative to the investor. Because of this, society is convinced that you are yet to invest until you have invested in real estate.

In 1975, legendary value investor Benjamin Graham wrote that his net-net stock strategy worked so well that he had renounced all other value investing strategies. In his 2014 shareholder letter, Warren Buffett wrote that he earned the highest returns of his career employing this "cigar butt" approach to investing. Net-net investing remains the most powerful value investing approach a small investor can adopt. This audiobook is your ultimate practical guide to implementing it - and reaping the rewards - in today’s markets.

Stop Waiting, Start Investing is a timeless guide to help you build long term wealth using the stock market with only 10 minutes of work.

An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games - with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job. He found a new one but lost that, too, when an ambulance mowed him down. In search of a way to cheer himself up while he recuperated, Peta started watching baseball again. That’s when inspiration hit: Why not apply his outstanding risk-analysis skills to improve on sabermetrics, the method made famous by Moneyball?

Sustainable investing is booming. The investment industry is fast approaching a point where one-third of global assets under management are invested with a sustainable objective. But do sustainable investment products do what investors expect them to do? How can an investor tell if their investments are having the social impact they want? Larry Swedroe and Sam Adams cut through the fog and bring clarity on all of this and more - providing investors with a firm plan for truly sustainable investing.

When it comes to your finances, you deserve to have access you need to the knowledge, education, strategies, and tips required to achieve financial freedom. Think about it: When was the last time you felt comfortable with your income? When was the last time you looked into your bank account and thought to yourself, “I can pay for my child’s college education?” For far too many of us, these are nothing but a pipe dream.

New technologies are an investment minefield. Putting money behind them means taking a risk on unproven ventures, often from inexperienced (and potentially unscrupulous) developers. While some will lead the investor to fantastic gains, many others turn out to be mere bubbles—a flimsy veneer of excitement and hype with little profitable at the core. But ignoring these technologies can be even worse, as this can mean failing to capitalise on the next great step in innovation.

Active managers persistently lag the returns of benchmarks and index funds that track them, with the excuses for underperformance recycled every year. This comprehensive book is the antidote for the active managers’ siren song. If you understand the benefits of indexing, or systematic investing, it will reinforce your commitment while increasing your knowledge. In this greatly expanded second edition, Swedroe and Berkin show you how to develop an investment plan that focuses on what risks to take, and how much of them, as well as how to build a diversified portfolio.

Everyone likes the idea of turning the ugliest house on the block into the best house on the block and making a profit. Until now a system has not been shared on how to successfully complete this task on time and budget without getting your hands dirty. This audiobook not only cracks the code but shares the proven path and system to have a systems-based rehab business that makes consistent profits for ordinary, everyday people.

Don’t get mad, get even...Phil Town’s first book, the number one New York Times best seller Rule #1, was a guide to stock trading for people who believe they lack the knowledge to trade. But because many people aren’t ready to go from mutual funds directly into trading without understanding investing - for the long term - he created Payback Time. Payback Time’s risk-free approach is called “stockpiling” and it’s how billionaires get rich in bad markets.

Discover 21 true stories of real estate investing deals that went terribly wrong and the lessons you can learn from them. The cost of these "deals gone bad" total millions of dollars in losses, years of unproductive activity, and incalculable emotional stress. However, you'll obtain the enormous benefits of the powerful and profitable learning lessons from these 21 mishaps without the costs! You're about to gather lifelong, extremely valuable real estate investment and house flipping wisdom that has taken others a lifetime and a fortune to learn.