Stocks for Beginners

I want to share with you an episode of the Bankadelic podcast with Lou Carlozo – Contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Editor in Chief Qwoted Founder and CEO, Carma Productions Worldwide, creative polymath and like me a refugee from the humanities who somehow ended up communicating about finance. Lou kindly invited me onto his podcast and you may enjoy the change of pace and Lou’s uncompromising...

Stanley H. Teitelbaum , PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. His new book is SMART MONEY: A Psychologist's Guide To Overcoming Self-Defeating Patterns In Stock Market Investing . The book addresses how to identify and overcome emotional roadblocks, blind spots, and errors in judgment that interfere with profitable investing, and how to develop greater trust in one’s ability to navigat...

Is money a mass delusion? What role does trust play in our financial system, and is there a way of doing it better? I wanted to find out more about money. The more I thought about, the less sense it made. Does money only have value because we agree to that illusion? Omid Malekan joined me to explain the history of money, how trust works, and why blockchain technology is re-engineering that trust....

Inflation is the cruellest tax. I met Jeffrey Kamys this week as we discussed an upcoming episode. In the meantime we recorded this conversation about inflation, whether we are already in a recession, how inflation is created and how central banks "print" money. Portfolio tracker Sharesight tracks your trades, shows your true performance, and saves you time and money at tax time. Get 4 months free...

It's known as the loneliness of the long-distance podcaster. Lives stunted by long hours alone in darkened studios and smoky editing suites. That's why it was great to share a podcast with fellow podcaster, Steven Lerner . Steven is the creator of Early Bird . He's been writing about financial topics since 2017, including stock earnings, initial public offerings, startup funding, and business tren...

Sir Ronald Cohen, Author of IMPACT: Reshaping capitalism to drive real change & Chair of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment. Sir Ronald Cohen is an Egyptian-born British businessman, who fled his birthplace with his family in 1957, following the Suez Crisis, with only £10 to their name. Despite his family’s economic struggles, Sir Ronald’s hard work saw him win a scholarship to Ox...

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway holds its shareholders' meeting in Omaha each year. It's known as the Woodstock for value investors. A recent guest on this podcast, Phil Weiss of Apprise Wealth, mentioned that he was attending and I asked if he would return and report to listeners. The Berkshire Annual Meeting is unique as most companies only talk to "The Street" or analysts, but Warren &...

What do Star Wars, Noah, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and tattoos have to do with investing? Everything. Master storyteller Jonny Tomahawk uses the experiences of everyday life to point to valuable lessons about how we all mismanage our wealth. Jonny Tomahawk is the nom-de-plume of Craig Mercer, Chief Research Officer and Head of ESG at Dalton Investments (Australia). Dalton Investments LLC is a...

It's often said to be extremely important to have a diversified portfolio, however this can also have some risks. In this Quick Tip call Karl Kaufman from American dream investing tells us about the dangers of diversification for individual investor. "You don't have a team of researchers with you so if you're going to pick stocks you really only have the focus and attention that you could really g...

Who is responsible for creating your life? What can freedom really look like? My guest today believes that everyone has the responsibility and the opportunity to design their own lives, and that money is a tool to build our dreams. Brooke Tomasetti is a personal finance coach and educator at Money Life Mentor . She’s Director of Financial Education and Community at Carbon Collective , th...

In this Quick Tip Codie Sanchez from Contrarian thinking offers advice on lowering costs, making more money and using the difference to start investing. And these days you can start real small. Here's a link to the full episode if you want to hear more from Codie: https://shows.acast.com/stocks-for-beginners/episodes/codiesanchez-commerce-capitalism-contrarianinvesting-cannabis Codie Sanchez is a...

My guest today has seen grown, mature, successful individuals open their first brokerage account and turn into 16 year olds who just got their driver's licence, their parents got them a brand new Lamborghini, and there's a bottle of whiskey in the passenger seat. The Stock Market will do that to some people. Roger is the Founder and CEO of Market Forecasting Academy , a training and mentorshi...

From the birth of disco (it was 1953!), capital raising, the tortoise and the hare, businesses blessed by bountiful accounting principles and the banking of the future. Steve covers a lot of ground in this episode. Steve Symington is a lead advisor for 7investing . He covers a wide variety of industries and publicly traded companies, but loves finding disruptive, responsible businesses chasing mas...

What happens when a mathematician shares a room with an economist at college? The mathematician doesn't come from an investment background but he'd like to make some money and the economist has a dream to launch a hedge fund. It may not have been quite as simple as that, but I enjoyed hearing the story of Michael Mills and his co-founder Nicholas B. Spoors building the Infinitary Fund from humble...

Successful financial management is not only about picking the right investments, it can also be about overcoming poor role models in your life. Phil Weiss and I sat down to discuss how he took action to avoid following in his father's financial footsteps. He shared great tips on getting rid of credit card debt, how his accounting training helps to identify the numbers that matter in company financ...

Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrencies. In this Quick Tip Edmund McCormack explains some of the future use cases for Blockchain. Edmund is the founder of the crypto-education platform  DCHAINED . He's committed to helping everyday investors understand Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. This world can often feel complex and intimidating but  DCHAINED  ut...

Jaden Sterling started his finance career on Wall Street but became disillusioned with the money-making machine that didn't look after investors. He noticed that most of the wealthy people that came to him had something in common. They owned a handful of stocks, no more than four to six, but on average about four different holdings. It was contrary to his Wall Street training that emphasised the i...

Pat Garret is Co-Founder and co-CEO at Robo advice firm Six Park In this Quick Tip he explains the changing landscape of financial advice. Portfolio tracker Sharesight tracks your trades, shows your true performance, and saves you time and money at tax time. Get 4 months free at https://www.sharesight.com/stocksforbeginners Disclosure: The links provided are affiliate links. I will be paid a...

How can you participate in the growth offered by early-stage start-ups? The disruptive enterprises that are seeking to change the future. Venture capital used to be the exclusive domain of the very wealthy, but here's a look at a company that's bringing this sector into the reach of all. Seismic website: https://seismic.company/ Episode Blog Post: https://www.stocksforbeginners.net/blog/seismic Po...

What I love about making this podcast the chance to meet bright young people who are creating tools to help everyday investors and democratizing investing knowledge. Jeff Tsai and Vinny Yu are the co-founders of JAVLIN Invest , a new app that helps investors assess portfolio risk and diversification. We talked about the data and industry-accepted formulas that are used by hedge funds and professio...

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 episode we discussed 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. Episode Blog Post: https:/...

Special guest analyst from 7investing this week is L uke Hallard. Television viewers are transitioning from traditional linear TV to Connected TV. Older generations are cord-cutting due to cost and convenience, and those born since the 1990s have grown up watching YouTube and Netflix, with Connected TV all they ever need. Increasingly, Connected TV is taking a larger proportion of total global tel...

Investopedia is often found through a back door, a side door, or through the attic because someone has asked a specific question: "how do I start investing with a thousand dollars?" Or "how do I get exposure to the e-commerce sector without picking individual stocks"? Or "what are the top performing oil ETFs over the past three months?" Caleb Silver is the Editor-in-Chief and Senior Vice President...

Special guest analyst from 7investing this week is Anirban Mahanti . We speak about TaskUs NasdaqGS:TASK, an IT company that provides outsourcing services for companies worldwide. It offers digital customer experience that consists of omni-channel customer care services, and other solutions, including customer care services for new product or market launches, trust and safety solutions, and c...

Many ordinary people view Wall St as a massive blockade of words and jargon with ramparts of complicated financial instruments designed to obfuscate and confuse small retail investors. Thomas J. Hayes is a Hedge Fund manager who is generous in offering insights via his YouTube and Podcast channels. We spoke about starting his career with Cornwall Capital, LP (one of the firms featured in “The Big...