Publisher's Synopsis
This book includes articles for beginner investors and advanced beginners selected from my book "Complete the art of investing".This book represents decades of my investing experiences, extensive simulations and summaries of hundreds of books I have read on investing. I also have found that many ideas / strategies are no longer applicable in today's market. Hence, I only include those proven techniques that work better in today's stock market and/or available today.This book should make you a better investor. With proven, step-by-step techniques to time the market, find and evaluate stocks, it is closer to the Holy Grail of investing for beginners.I also explain why you need to invest for yourself and why a beginner can beat a fund manager due to their required limitations/restrictions and hefty fees.This book covers most topics on basic investing excluding speculative investing such as options, currency trading and day trading. It is far better to be a turtle investor than making millions and losing it all.This book has about 200 pages (6 inches*9 inches). I provide two tables for selected articles respectively for beginners and advanced beginners. This book consists of 7 books (major sections).The first book gives you the motivation to read this book by listing my performances and also my mistakes in "My trading in 2019" in the bonus section. You have the better chance to repeat these performances than I as most of you start earlier than I. "Beginners (with Common Tools)" describes the advanced features of this book in the simplest and the least time-consuming techniques. Even advance users could find some shortcuts. Most of the tools are free from the web sites described. We start with the basic books Finding Stocks, Evaluate Stocks, Trading Stocks and Market Timing. The simple technique on market timing has worked for the last two plunges (2000 and 2008) with only one false signal (telling you to exit but reentering the market shortly) between 2000 and 2010. It has been working fine from 2000 to 2020.A strategy describes how to screen stocks, evaluate them, buy them and sell them. I selected the safer strategies for beginners that include swing trading, top-down, and dividend investing and simple sector rotation. Selecting the right strategy for the current market conditions is not easy but yet very rewarding.Many older teachings even from famous investors do not work in today's market judging from their recent mediocre performances. Also, it could be that there are too many followers and/or the metrics are not applicable to today's market.Most likely for luck but with good reasons, I predicted correctly that a disaster would happen in China as reported in August, 2019 in my article "Disasters in 2020" in the Bonus Section. The second prediction has not happened yet, but it could have more impact to our economy.The third prediction: China would not agree to pay for the damages of this pandemic and that would lead to the freezing of their debts to us (1.07 T as of Dec., 2019). Eventually it would lead to a military war. I hope it would never happen.Size: 225 pages (6*9)Initial date: 07/2020.Last update: 01/2021.
