Stocks for Beginners

We live in a world with an abundance of valuable information at our fingertips. But the downside is exhaustion from dizzying information overload and a 24-hour news cycle that makes it overwhelming to sift through and process. In fact, in early 2020, 66% of Americans reported being “worn out” by the amount of news. In Thriving on Overload: The Five Powers for Success in a World of Exponential Info...

Ethan Widell  is Investment Analyst at Ironhold Capital, a graduate of  Columbia University  with a double-major in Economics and Psychology, with a passion for Behavioral Economics and previous experience in Research and Data Analysis. In this Quick Tip he discusses some of the psychological tricks that we play on ourselves that sabotage our outcomes. Please consider a sm...

How can listening to music make you a better investor? What if there’s something more to life than investing, stocks and money? In this episode I’m joined by Vitaliy Katsenelson to talk investing, Stoic philosophy and the importance of story-telling. Vitaliy Katsenelson was born in Murmansk, USSR, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1991. After joining Denver-based value investm...

Mike Tyson says that every boxer has a plan until they get punched in the face. And everyone is a long term investor until they get punched in the face. Enrique Abeyta is the editor of Empire Elite Trader, a weekly investment newsletter. In this Quick Tip he talks about sticking to a plan, how we wouldn’t learn to become a dentist to work on our family and friends, and how it’s your money man, tak...

Mark LaMonica is a Product Manager at Morningstar and a co-host of the Investing Compass Podcast. Mark has robust views on thematic ETFs and what investors should watch out for. Blog Post for this episode: https://www.stocksforbeginners.net/blog/morningstar Portfolio tracker Sharesight tracks your trades, shows your true performance, and saves you time and money at tax time. Get 4 months free at h...

What is the season of life you’re in and how are you going to put your financial house in order? Robert Farrington is the founder of The College Investor the #1 tool to help get people out of student loan debt, learn how to earn more money, understand how to start investing and build real wealth. In this Quick Tip Robert explains how it’s not about searching for a big win in the stock market, but...

"The fear was that the New York Stock Exchange was next, because when you think about America and you think about developed nations and developed markets, the New York Stock Exchange is a symbol. If nothing else, it's a symbol of America. It's a symbol of freedom. It's a symbol of capitalism. It's a symbol of the free world. Because if somebody really wanted to make a statement, I mean, they made...

Where does your order go each time you hit buy or sell in your brokerage account? What’s a market maker and how many hands are in the pockets of investors on the way through? Dan Raju from Tradier joined me to explain the nuts and bolts and picks and shovels of trading. Dan Raju is the Chief Executive Officer of Tradier. Dan has the overall responsibility of Tradier and the company’s strategy and...

Investors often fall in love with the story of a company without taking the next step which is to then research the company and find out whether it really is good value. In this Quick Tip Thomas J. Hayes from Hedge Fund Tips talks about valuing a business and how free cash is flow the most important metric.  Full episode available at: https://www.stocksforbeginners.net/blog/hedgefundtips Plea...

My guest today helped to found the first African American owned AI ETF on the New York Stock Exchange. The median net worth for Black households is currently $24K, compared to $188K for white households, according to McKinsey and Company. This massive wealth disparity reflects a long history of racism, including lack of access to education, financial services, and barriers to ownership. Mario Payn...

Caleb Silver is the Editor-in-Chief and Senior Vice President at Investopedia. He’s a great guest with an awesome amount of investing knowledge. In this Quick Tip we speak about dollar cost averaging, diversification, risk management, and the common mistakes made by new investors. Full episode available at: https://www.stocksforbeginners.net/blog/investopedia Please consider a small donation...

There's an old cliché about the "starving" artist that may have a basis in reality, but isn’t set in stone! My guest David Maurice Sharp joined me to discuss the tricky financial waters that come with following the artistic path. He's a financial educator that provides valuable advice for performing artists like actors, dancers, lighting gurus, costumers or stagehands on investing, saving and buil...

Myles Gage is a co-founder of Rapunzl, an app that addresses the three roadblocks that prohibit many from understanding the stock market: fear, exposure, and accessibility. Myles is an advocate for financial education especially for individuals in underserved communities. He was exposed to the stock market at a very young age, attending Ariel Community Academy on Chicago's south side. Financial li...

How can we judge whether fear or greed is prevailing in a stock, ETF or index? It's not something that is shown by studying company reports. Some say that fundamental analysis helps you to know what to buy and technical analysis tells you when to buy (or sell as the case may be). Technical analysis uses price and volume alone, and assumes that everything we need to know is embodied in th...

Greed, fear, euphoria, despair, over-confidence and regret. These are the greatest emotional obstacles in the way of stock market investing according to my guest Dr Stanley Teitelbaum. In this quick tip Stanley explains the range of emotions that contribute to our poor investing outcomes, the negative thoughts that we experience and the steps to take to minimise their impact. Too many of us have i...

If you don't know who the sucker is at the poker table it's you. I was joined in this conversation by Wall Street Journal reporter Spencer Jakab . His latest book is “The Revolution That Wasn’t: GameStop, Reddit and the Fleecing of Small Investors.” The frenzy in meme stocks in 2021 was perceived as a Robin Hood style raid on Wall Street. Reddit forums filled with young men holding "diamond hands"...

Risk management is crucial in investing. Keith Smith is a former army engineer and a portfolio manager at Bonhoeffer Capital Management. In this Quick Tip, Keith describes how he manages risk like an engineer. Obviously, engineers are very interested in managing risk. I mean, you don't want that plane falling out of the sky. "I think the real aspect from the engineering perspective is just the app...

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 Americans can now legally wager on sports using their phones. US sports leagues now embrace sports wagering as a way to connect with fans,...

In the US alone, the ETF sector has exploded into a $5 trillion industry. The number of funds has blossomed, which means that there are many funds that offer increasing specificity and focus. Thematic ETFs aim to isolate a target niche of the market. They can be narrow or relatively broad in scope. Many offer exposure to sectors that have been previously unavailable to retail investors. And often...

Dion Pouncil believes that energy management, managing your thoughts, managing your words, managing your actions, managing your emotions, and acquiring knowledge, are the keys to becoming wealthier. Being a sponge for data. Being a consistent winner, having more than you spend, comes from the repetition of principles. That's why certain athletes, when they get in business and they do learn, b...

Ethan Widell is an Investment Analyst at IronHold Capital . In this quick tip Ethan talks about his passion for reading financial reports. It's important for beginners to understand the level of research required to make informed decisions when investing in companies. Otherwise you may consider index ETFs for the long term. Ethan suggests learning about compounding rather than get rich quick appro...

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...

In this Quick Tip, Pate Garrett from Six Park talks about the generational change that's occurring in serving financial needs. The biggest wealth transfer in history is taking place between Baby Boomers and younger generations. Tools are available at a reasonable price to access financial advice and to help with long-term investing strategies. Portfolio tracker Sharesight tracks your trades, shows...

We're all investors in the stock market, either directly or through our retirement plans. We're handing over management of our assets to financial advisors and fund managers. The best will look after our interests and make us wealthier. But how can we know for sure? Where are the investors' yachts? The big money on Wall Street is made by charging us fees. The finance industry is collecting for man...

"No matter how much evidence exists that seers do not exist, suckers will pay for the existence of seers." - J. Scott Armstrong. Karl Kaufman is the resident expert at American Dream Investing helping ordinary investors who are ignored by Wall Street. Despite the fancy MBAs, predictive models, fancy suits and the big salaries, Wall Street analysts are woefully poor predictors of future events. I b...