Personal Investing

Investment is simpler than non-professionals think, in that the rudiments can be expressed in ordinary English and picked up by anybody. It is not a science. But investment is also difficult. Picking the managers who are likely to do better than the market indices is a challenge. A cult classic for its candid confessions and sparkling wit, this extended edition of Simple But Not Easy - featuring a new author’s preface and a substantial afterword - remains an indispensable companion for all those interested in the rewarding but enigmatic pursuit of investing.

The Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, Volume 2 is the collection of the top techniques and strategies of the most successful real estate professionals that were interviewed on the world's longest running daily real estate podcast from episodes 101 to 199.

What if the window of time to become wealthy was running out? Wouldn't you at least want to know? Rockefeller became rich from oil. Carnegie became wealthy from steel. Is there a possibility of mirroring that success with early technological adoption available today? Definitely yes! And cryptocurrencies bring us that opportunity. Whether you're a total beginner that's never invested in digital assets before, or an experienced investor, this audiobook will give you all the guidance and wisdom necessary to stay the course to success.

Curious about starting as an angel investor but never knew where to start? Angel investing offers amazing rewards to those who venture into this venture. This venture is all about finding those start-ups and the founders that shine with their passion and ideas and solve the painful problems we all experience with their vision and innovative thinking. Angel Investor School will give you the tools to change the world through investment, supporting new technologies and ideas.

Everyone wants to be a contrarian investor. From the hedge funds who bet against the US housing market in the run up to 2008, to George Soros's billion-dollar bet against the Bank of England in 1992, some of the most famous and most profitable trades in history have been contrarian calls. And with the relentless growth of passive investing - investors blindly following the market - the opportunities for a smart investor to profit by betting against the crowd should be greater than ever. Yet being a contrarian is hard work.

In Stop Investing Like They Tell You, Stephen challenges traditional advice and guides investors through a comprehensive understanding of the 16 most egregious myths regurgitated throughout the financial industry. Upon completion of this text, listeners are also left with confidence as to how they can better invest so as to protect and grow their life savings no matter what chaos the future may hold in store.

Too many investment advisors have taken the path of least resistance, not aware of the risk in systematically withdrawing from what, at times, will be a declining portfolio. Investors seeking to accumulate money for their future needs and investors needing to withdraw money now for a present need both have one thing in common: dividend growth investing represents a powerful weapon in the achievement of their objectives.

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.

Investing is simple, but never easy. We carry a lot of investment baggage, including hot tips from friends and the financial media, as well as complicated financial recommendations from Wall Street "experts." Yet the biggest obstacle we face is the tendency to outsmart ourselves. In order to overcome this obstacle, you need to follow straightforward strategies that will consistently push your portfolio ahead of the pack by an additional three to four percent annually.

Making a powerful case that the US dollar and the global monetary system are headed for a world-changing crisis, describing the ways it will unfold, and explaining why owning gold is a vital means of protecting yourself, your family, and your wealth, two gold experts triangulate their views to prepare listeners for the last gold rush.

If you want to learn how to achieve financial freedom by creating passive income, explore the most effective strategies in one of the best guides available.

For years, people have thought day trading was impossible. Or, they started trading and totally lost their shirt. But while beginners might read a book or take a course and it leads to a few big wins, they can never keep these profits consistent. The secret behind day trading is that it can be life-changing if you have a system in place to minimize your risks and maximize your profits. Once you finally get it (aka how to build your profit system), turning a massive profit in day trading is incredibly easy!

Want to invest in real estate but don't have the time? No matter your level of experience, real estate syndications provide an avenue to invest in real estate without tenants, toilets, or trash - and this comprehensive guide will teach you how to invest in these opportunities the right way. Syndications are like the stock mutual funds of the real estate world - multiple investors passively invest into a fund, while a manager is responsible for picking the real estate and managing the portfolio.

Jim Cramer's Getting Back to Even offers the most detailed guidance he has ever given on how to invest in a changed market. Savvy investors will not just survive; they will thrive. Your portfolio won't fix itself; you have to do that. It's easy to close your eyes and pretend that it all never happened, but you'll never get back to even that way, much less profit from the opportunities that this new market offers to investors who know where to put their money.

Far too many investors fail to get the results they want, because they make some pretty common mistakes. The problem is, the errors don't seem like mistakes—they seem like smart, intuitive, and/or widely recognized investing "wisdom". But much of what's accepted as investing "wisdom" is, instead, bunk.

Good capital allocation is the secret sauce of business success and investment returns. How could what you spend money on inside a business not be of utmost importance? I looked for a business person's guide to effective capital allocation for years. I thought, "What a nice gift to send to the CEOs of my portfolio companies!" as visions of outsized returns danced in my head. To my dismay, the search came up dry. I decided I'd have to write my own. I started at the individual customer transaction level and built all the way up to M&A, share buybacks, and beyond.

With so many choices, investing can be tricky. Stock Investing for Dummies, 2nd, makes things simple with proven tactics and time-tested strategies for picking winners. This updated edition includes new case studies, resources, and insight on government policy - and will have you investing with confidence in no time! Discover how to find a great broker, decode company documents, choose the right investment strategy, handle your taxes, weigh risk versus reward, and discover new investing opportunities.

This is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand and use plan for maximizing your investments - not just cutting your losses. Learn the unvarnished truth about "tried and true" Wall Street practices and why stocks and bonds are not the answer - and which investment vehicles are. Find out how to diversify into oil/gas, equipment, notes, real estate, bullion and rare coins the way the super-rich do - information that Wall Street doesn’t want you to have.

Here's how entrepreneurs find the next big thing-and make it huge. The era of easy money and easy jobs is officially over. Today, we're all entrepreneurs, and the tides of change threaten to capsize anyone who plays it safe. Taking risks is the name of the game - but how can you tell a smart bet from a stupid gamble? Andy Kessler offers 12 surprising and controversial rules for these radical entrepreneurs.

Are you a trader who has already mastered trading platform techniques yet is not profiting in trading business? Well, this might mean that there is something you are missing, something your approaches don’t cover. This audiobook focuses mainly on how psychology is related to norms of trading. As trading gained popularity and became easily approachable, the expertise, trading tools, and trading platforms became advanced too. Today, there exists a long list of technical supports and functional resources available on the internet.