Personal Investing

For the past few decades, Americans have spent billions of dollars on personal finance products. As salaries have stagnated and companies have cut back on benefits, we've taken matters into our own hands, embracing the can-do attitude that if we're smart enough, we can overcome even daunting financial obstacles. But that's not true. In this meticulously reported and shocking audiobook, journalist and former financial columnist Helaine Olen goes behind the curtain of the personal finance industry to expose the myths, contradictions, and outright lies it has perpetuated.

This is the perfect book to help you on your journey to becoming an expert in investing in bear markets, whether they are cyclical or long-term. Investing Strategies for a Bear Market and More will teach you simple strategies that you can follow to make sure that you give yourself the best chance of making a profit from the bear markets, and not ending up with losses that will demoralize you and impact your capital levels. Wherever you are with your knowledge currently, this is the perfect book to help take your information to the next level.

An easy-to-listen-to introduction for Phyzz or physical precious metals bullion and coin investors. This book covers and explains the underlying facts and basics of precious metals as an asset class. It also explains how and why physical precious metals continue to have utility in today's “modern” world of predominantly electronic markets, online trading, and highly specialized financial infrastructure.

The economic crisis has placed the business cycle back in the spotlight, but as individual investors and financial professionals start the arduous task of portfolio building and rebuilding, the greatest danger they face is relying too much on the past for guidance when the future may look very different. No one can say for certain what our economic future will look like. What investors can do is prepare.

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.

Tiny homes aren’t for everyone. Living in a tiny home is a passion that some people just don’t have, but you do! Tiny homes have become so popular because it creates a simple way of living. Not only are they so much cheaper than building a standard house, but they have more authenticity, more personality, and double the fun! Venturing into real estate can be hard but with tiny homes, it can be as simple as one, two, three! You are probably out there in the world trying to find ways to build your wealth.

Charting and Technical Analysis are investing philosophies and techniques for analyzing the real-time trends of the stock market. It is an informational discipline that provides investors with insight into the probable futures of a trading firm. What makes charting and technical analysis different from basic investing techniques is that charting and technical analysis use advanced mathematical formulas and real-time trading tools to analyze the relative valuations of the equity markets and other economic indicators.

Gone are the days of traditional retirement planning. The idea that you can simply save a certain amount and retire with confidence is flawed, dangerous even, as it does not account for today’s volatile financial markets, increasing life expectancy, interest rates, and every individual’s unique retirement lifestyle needs.

In this book, you'll learn how a stock's price is just the beginning of the story, and that other indicators like moving averages and volume can help you to spot stocks that have momentum. You'll also learn how to determine the optimal moment to buy a stock, when to sell it, how to protect yourself against sudden reversals in the market, and how to capitalize on moments when other investors are retreating.

In The World’s Simplest Stock Picking Strategy, Wall Street equity adviser Edward Ryan describes the investment strategy he has used for his own personal investments for the last 10 years and shows you, step by step, with full practical guidance, how to put it into practice yourself.

The Nature of Investing calls for a transformation of the investment process from the roots up. Drawing on the author's twenty-plus years of leadership experience in top investment firms, the book connects real-world finance with the field of biomimicry. Citing real-life examples and discussing principles from the natural world, The Nature of Investing shows how we can create an investment framework that is different from the mechanized one currently employed.

What makes for a successful investor? More important, what makes for a happy and meaningful life? According to legendary investor Jim Rogers, the road to financial success and the road to a meaningful life are one and the same.

Are wondering how to "get in" into the world of private equity, whether as an investor or a business seeking private equity financing? Do you want to uncover the veil of secrecy that has clouded private equity funds for years so that you too can go all in and benefit from it? This book will help you to achieve just that by covering the A-Z of private equity so that even if you are a complete beginner, you have expert level understanding of the inner workings of private equity funds so that you can use that to your advantage.

Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion.

What you will hear is my real-life experience of what it took for me to get started as an investor and what I still do today. I'll give you a hint—the first step is all about your mindset. The reason is, if you don't have the mindset to succeed as an investor, then steps two through ten will be useless. I begin this program by revealing what is the winning mindset and how you can adopt that in you.

Warren Buffett is often described as the greatest investor of all time. In Buffett's Tips: A Guide to Financial Literacy and Life award-winning professor John M. Longo sorts through the mountain of advice that Buffett has given over the years and distills it down into 100 easy-to-understand lessons. Everything young (and old!) people need to know about finance is in this book. From the different types of bank accounts to the basics of investing and risk management, this book teaches listeners how to live healthy financial lives.

In The Meaningful Money Handbook, personal finance expert and podcaster extraordinaire Pete Matthew guides you through everything you need to know and everything you need to do to build a secure financial future for yourself and your family.

Rocket stocks are the shortest path to wealth in the stock market. And yet many traders and investors miss out on them. Or trade them the wrong way and get wiped out. Have you ever wished that you could find the next Tesla or Apple? Have you ever stood on the sidelines and watched a stock rocket higher? You were paralyzed for many days, afraid to buy. And then you finally bought the stock, only to watch it crash lower. I used to do this too, until I figured out exactly when to buy and sell these stocks.

In this book I'll be going into detail about how I achieved success in trading and by the end, you'll know exactly what I do on a day-to-day basis. I'm not going to give you a load of vague information about how the market is a force of nature or tell you how there are a million different factors that affect the market then explain each one. You want to be successful in trading (I presume). You want to know what I actually do when I sit in front of the screens that makes me a tidy profit.