Step by Step Investing: A Beginner's Guide to the Best Investments in Stocks - Softcover

Hogue, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099623215X ISBN 13: 9780996232159

Publisher: Efficient Alpha, 2015

Synopsis

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. Each provides a simple investing strategy and investing basics into different types of investments, giving you a well-rounded portfolio that will meet your goals.

About this title

From the Author

Working as an investment analyst and with private clients, I've seen too many people fall short of their financial goals because of overly-complicated and expensive investing strategies. The financial world is designed to keep you trading in and out of stocks to rack up billions in fees.

I want to end that with this book and a simple, long-term approach to investing that you can use to meet your needs!

I had a great time putting this book together because I know how much it will help you put together an investing strategy and meet your goals.I'm excited about sharing everything I've learned over two decades in the markets and everything in this book.

From the Back Cover

This book had to be written. The financial media and internet have perverted investing to the point that it's barely recognizable to a rational investor. Instead of solid investment advice and how to invest according to your financial needs, investors are blasted with countless stock picks and along with the bells and whistles of a carnival game.

The idea that you need to 'beat' the stock market by jumping in and out of stocks is perpetuated by the media because it keeps you coming back for more. It enriches the brokers and analysts that make money on their investing 'ideas' and means billions in marketing dollars for the TV channels and blogs.

It's only a happy coincidence if you make money on stocks. More often than not, you end up losing money on bad investment advice and trading fees. The average investor earned an annual return of just 2.6% over the ten years through 2013 versus a market return of 7.6% over the same period. All while those investment 'gurus' got rich by getting in before they shared their hot stock tip and then sold out before the stock price tumbled.

Step-by-Step Investing changes all this by making investing about YOU. I spend less time talking about how to beat the stock market and more time talking about how to beat YOUR financial goals. You'll learn that the only way to win the stock market game is to play by your rules and how to put together an investing strategy right for your needs. You'll learn why most investors lose money and how to avoid the same investing mistakes that most investors make time and again.

Edition details

• Publisher: Efficient Alpha
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 099623215X
• ISBN 13: 9780996232159
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 76