Personal Investing

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?

Veteran money manager Kevin Simpson shares portfolio hedging strategies typically accessible only to professional money managers and wealthy financiers—including one of the best-kept secrets to creating sustainable income. Simpson uses easy-to-understand language and real-world examples to explore-in depth-his time-tested, proven strategies for driving investment returns. Becoming financially independent isn't limited by inheritance or luck. This book is for anyone eager to learn the most effective ways to grow their investment portfolios and Walk Toward Wealth.

In this step-by-step guide, Mark breaks down his "ultimate subscription model" for creating passive income through the niche of raw-land investment. Featuring details on common pitfalls, tips on cultivating an investor's mind, and advice on working smart instead of hard, this handbook will show you how to obtain a life of fiscal independence, with the flexibility to work where you want, when you want, and with whom you want.

Factor Investing For Dummies helps you go beyond the investment basics, with proven techniques for making informed and sophisticated investment decisions. Momentum, value, interest rates, economic growth, credit risk, liquidity—all these things can help you identify killer stocks and improve your returns. This book explains it all, and helps you implement a strategic factor investing plan, so you can boost your portfolio's performance, reduce volatility, and enhance diversification.

Empower yourself with value investing methods used by the world's most successful value investors! These include Ben Graham, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Phil Fisher, and more. Each valuation model is explained in a simple, easy-to-understand, step-by-step process. Now you can learn to value businesses, stocks, and bonds and estimate intrinsic value like billionaire Warren Buffett! Transform your financial life. Discover how to use both qualitative and quantitative factors to identify high-quality undervalued businesses.

Learn how to make money with day trading today! What is day trading? How can I make money with day trading? How much money can I make with day trading? How do I get started? If you want to know the answers to the questions above, download this book today. In this book you will learn specifically how to start and organize your daily trading activities, the different types of stock available, how to read a candlestick chart, and place different orders.

In the updated edition of The Elements of Investing, authors Charles Ellis and Burton Malkiel-two of the world's greatest financial thinkers - have again combined their talents to produce a straight-talking book about investing and saving. Written with every investor in mind, this reliable resource will put you on a path towards a lifetime of financial success.

Unlock the secrets to financial independence–start building your wealth now, even if you're a teen with zero experience! Are you a teen with big dreams but unsure about managing money? Ever looked at your empty wallet and thought, "There’s got to be a better way"? If you’re tired of waiting for that "someday" when you magically understand finances, this book is for you!

Getting Started in Options arms you with the facts you need to make informed decisions about choosing stocks, tracking options, selling calls, understanding and controlling risk, and much more.

The best time to start investing is now—even as little as a few years can make a difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time retirement comes around. Investing early in your career is the best way to ensure a secure and successful life all the way through retirement. For years, The Everything Guide to Investing in Your 20s & 30s has been guiding young professionals on how to capitalize on the investing market and make the most out of their money. This all-new and fully updated edition includes all of the tips, tricks, and investing knowledge.

Investing and trading in gold and silver is always a sound idea - and that goes double in a time of unusual market fluctuation. As people look for safe places to diversify their investment risk, you'll likely see the value of your investment go up where other stocks are vulnerable. Gold and silver saw increases in value of 16% and 15% respectively in 2019 - putting them among the top 10 most desirable commodities out there - and are projected to experience even more of a bear market as the dollar wobbles in an uncertain post-COVID world.

Are you investing with the help of financial advisers, money managers, or bankers? Are you thinking about investing, but you don't know where to start and who to trust in the financial jungle out there? By listening to The Million Dollar Decision, you'll finally discover how to make sure your invested money works for you...and not for the financial industry.

A common assumption about investors is that they don't care who wins as long as they're making money. For some investors, this mindset still rings true. Yet, many investors today want to make money and do good. Using a user-friendly format and insights from noted investment professionals, Sustainable Investing: What Everyone Needs to Know demystifies sustainable investing. By covering everything from the changing investment landscape and the roles of social and religious values in finance to how to build a portfolio with purpose, the authors provide an essential introduction.

The Investor's Dilemma Decoded gives you the tools that 99.9% of investors never master-these tools allow you to understand how to think about almost any category of investment, and almost any investment product or program. In addition, the authors take a deep dive into topics including What actually generates investment returns?; Is owning a home an investment?; Should you own gold?; What is a hedge, and are commodity funds an inflation hedge?; What many well-known investment personalities get wrong about returns.

Time and again, individual investors discover, all too late, that actively picking stocks is a loser's game. The alternative lies with index funds. This passive form of investing allows you to participate in the markets relatively cheaply while prospering all the more because the money saved on investment expenses stays in your pocket. In his latest book, investment expert Richard Ferri shows you how easy and accessible index investing is.

Investing is the craft of creating wealth from nothing. This audiobook would help you to understand how you can create hundreds of thousands of dollars just by investing $10 a week. It isn’t a hoax, and neither it is some mathematical manipulation. It is the magic of compounding interest.

Wealth Management Unwrapped provides you with the tools and tips you need to take back control and more effectively manage your money. Wall Street veteran Charlotte Beyer conducts a tour of the wealth management industry, guiding you through the complexities and jargon with straightforward, no-nonsense expertise. From choosing an advisor and understanding the fine print, to fulfilling your responsibilities as CEO of My Wealth, Inc. this audiobook offers all-in-one guidance for anyone ready to take charge of their finances. This revised and expanded version has been updated with new information.

If you listened to the original Buffettology, you know exactly half of what you need to know to effectively apply Warren Buffett's investment strategies. The New Buffettology guides listeners through opportunity-rich bear markets, and step-by-step through Buffett's own investment process.

Welcome to the world of buying foreclosed homes at auction - a real estate strategy that lets you remove the middleman, decrease your competition, and buy at a discount. Bidding for properties on the courthouse steps while competing in real time with other investors is a thrilling experience. With dozens of insider auction secrets that are proven to help maximize returns, Bidding to Buy will show you the skills you need to successfully bid at auction, then turn a healthy profit on your investment.

Produce enough income to retire and make market volatility your very best friend. Steve Selengut, a 44-year investment professional, teaches you a simple yet little-known system for investing in the stock market that shouldn't be a secret (but is). It delivers reliable income without selling your hard-earned investments to pay the bills. Better yet, it works whether the stock market is going up or down.