Stocks for Beginners

I had a great time chatting with Doug from Sharesigh t . He's a nice guy and I love using Sharesight myself. It may sound boring but record-keeping is important in share investing and it also gives you insights that can make you a more profitable investor. We cover a range of topics including: The history of  Sharesight  and how it works Old School open-cry markets trading commodities in...

Gary Brode is a Hedge fund manager turned to the good side. He writes and tweets about stocks, markets, and share investment tips that can benefit anyone. In this episode we talked about the Deep Knowlege Investing (DKI) February 2023 Newsletter which you can download here . We chatted about: Making money even when you're wrong Investing Lessons from Argentina and Inflation DKI’s Thesis on the Mar...

What do exercise, the great outdoors and a healthy lifestyle have to with successful investing? Does the military prepare you for more than just battle? Joining me in this episode is Erik Smolinski from esInvests . Erik is a Marine veteran and self-made millionaire investor. He’s spent over 30,000+ hours honing his craft and outpacing the market for the last 14 years (22.8% CAGR). Erik maintains t...

It's one of the oldest questions in investing. Pay off the mortgage first or put your money to work investing. In a rising interest rate environment, it's becoming harder to do one or the other, let alone both. In this episode, I'm joined by Adam Carroll to talk about shredding that mortgage. Adam Carroll paid off his home in record time saving over $180,000 in interest in the process, he's sharin...

Investment philosophy is always a work in progress. In this episode I was joined by substack authors Daye Deng and Balkar Sivia who have an article titled Memo: Value Investing Revisited - Rethinking volatility, conviction, and Mr. Market . Value investing is a philosophy learned from well-known investors like Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham . There is a standard set of principles in value inve...

Inflation, recession, high interest rates, mortgage stress, war and cost-of-living pressures, just some of the cheery headlines that we can look forward to in 2023. Or is the future looking more benign? This is the first fresh episode of the year and my guest is Dave Sekera chief U.S. market strategist for Morningstar. Dave is the author of Morningstar’s Stock Market Outlook for 2023 which is the...

This episode is a repeat from last year as I take a little bit of a break to regroup so I can spearhead the charge into the new year. A federal ban on sports betting was removed in 2018, and there’s been a sprint to market, with states eager to get in on the gaming business and a steady trickle of new states opening their doors to gambling operators such as Caesars and MGM . Some 112 million Ameri...

This episode is a repeat from last year as I take a little bit of a break to regroup so I can spearhead the charge into the new year. I thought it was interesting in light of the latest news about ChatGPT and how AI has suddenly become the talk of the day. Tony is a combat paralyzed veteran who served in The Marines from 2008 through 2012. He continues to use the leadership skills gained from the...

Computer networking, data science, and machine learning are at the heart of enterprise software. Anirban Mahanti has serious form in the technology space. Just check out his bio below. This is a far-reaching discussion on technology and looking for opportunities from innovation. Here's a link to the blog post https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/mahanti And here's a link to Anirban's articles a...

Do you ever dream about those golden years, about that time when you won’t have to work for the man, exchanging your labour for pay? But how can you make sure that you have enough money to realize that dream? Bill is the founder and CEO of Keen Wealth Advisors and the host of the long-running Keen on Retirement podcast, and he has a passion for teaching others how to become financially smart and s...

If you’ve been listening to this show for a while you will notice that I try and give equal time to both sides of the sectarian divide, fundamental and technical analysis. Team fundamental look for the future price of companies based on their financials and Team technical look at price history. Dan Passarelli is on the technical side of the story. Dan Passarelli is a trader, author, a former membe...

Researching individual stocks can take a lot of time. In one particular case there were 8,599 news articles since January 1 this year that would have taken 860 hours to read. Add to that some historical data and you would have needed 1.32 years of reading to catch up and see the subtle shift in the way that Netflix was spoken before it's stock price dropped. How much information do you need and ho...

I can't believe it's been over a year since I've had Gary on the podcast. It's been great to catch up with him and to keep following his thoughts on his twitter feed . He always takes a clear position, explaining his reasoning and taking the risk of being wrong. In this episode we spoke about the outcome of the mid-term elections, US energy policy, inflation, and what a sovereign debt default look...

Stephen Clapham is the founder of Behind the Balance Sheet. He’s had a 25-year career as an investment analyst. He now offers training to professional investment analysts, portfolio managers and private investors. In this Quick Tip He talks about how the finance industry bewilders ordinary investors with jargon that is not really that hard to understand. He talks about Fees, Discounted Cash Flow a...

Simon Ree is the author of The Tao Of Trading: How To Build Abundant Wealth In Any Market Condition . But why does the world need another book on options trading? There are already hundreds of them out there. Simon thought that all of the ones that he'd read were boring. The sorts of book you'd only read if your boss was making you do it. He thinks that sometimes the authors like to show off how g...

"Australia’s mining industry is a pillar of the Australian economy, with the country being one of the world’s largest exporters of coal, iron ore, bauxite, alumina, and many other resources. The gross value added by the mining industry was in the hundreds of billions of Australian dollars in the past decade alone. The real gross value added of the mining industry accounted for over 10 percent of t...

Valuation Safety and timing. These are the 3 pillars of successful investing according to Todd Shaffer, Manager of Research at VectorVest. In this QuickTip he talks about price action, risk and searching for value Here's the full episode: https://shows.acast.com/stocks-for-beginners/episodes/toddshaffer-vectorvest Please consider a small donation if you'd like to support my work educating and ente...

Premiering this Fall/Winter on PBS stations, Opportunity Knock$ will pair six geographically and demographically diverse families with one of three expert coaches to help them chart a path out of debt and into financial stability, providing digestible and sustainable tips and local/national resources viewers can utilize. The three Opportunity Coaches are TODAY Show financial expert Jean Chatzky ,...

Codie Sanchez is a former mutual fund manager at Goldman Sachs and a consultant to Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. She earned her MBA from Georgetown University and received her Ph. D. from FGV in Brazil. She is an investor, speaker and business builder. She is a partner at Entourage Effect Capital, one of the first Growth Equity funds in the legalized cannabis space. Here's the full episode: ht...

Are capital markets more of a simulation than reality? How important is it to understand that we are being manipulated by the media, Wall Street and other players to have our attention distracted and be part of their business models not ours. Dr Richard Smith has built his work around understanding risk. He’s a Berkeley Mathematician and PhD in System Science – and the founder and CEO of RiskSmith...

What is technical analysis and why do people use it to try to predict movements in the price of stocks? How does demand govern price action. In this Quick Tip, Roger Khoury from the Market Forecasting Academy talks about lagging indicators, how Wall Street really makes money and the manipulation of demand. Roger is the Founder and CEO of Market Forecasting Academy . Throughout the years, he's...

What bearing do King Arthur, Merlin, Excalibur and the Knights of the Round Table have on investing? What information do you need to go into battle in the markets? What are your sources of investing data? How can you manage risk? Guido Petrelli was just 16 years old when he opened his first trading account. He realised that before executing any trades, he had to develop a diversified and balanced...

In our most recent episode with Kristin Myers from The Balance, we referred to Caleb Silver from Investopedia. This Quick Tip is an excerpt from an interview with Caleb earlier this year that includes lots of great advice about starting out in the stock market Link to the blog post: https://www.stocksforbeginners.net/blog/investopedia Please consider a small donation if you'd like to support my wo...

Inflation is high all over the world, interest rates are up, and when that happens, recessions often follow. Are you prepared? My guest today has been writing about this and looking into the data. Kristin Myers is the editor-in-chief of The Balance . This interview was partly based on an article she wrote titled 44% of US Adults Are Not Financially Ready for Recession . Kristin Myers is a journali...

ETFs have become a dominant force in the investment world. But what is an ETF and how were they developed? It was due to a pioneer named Jack Bogle who started Vanguard and created the first ETFs. Daniel Reyes is Head of Investments, and Head of Investment Strategy Group, Asia-Pacific at Vanguard. In this Quick Tip he explains ETFs, asset allocation, and why cost matters when you invest. Link to t...