Stocks for Beginners
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 managing money, whether they win or lose or break even.
Where do you go if you're completely new but want to start learning about investing in the market yourself. The jargon is dense and it can feel like we're being kept deliberately in the dark with many confusing metrics.
In Stocks for Beginners you'll hear from people in the finance industry and together we'll explain the key concepts of investing while they share their financial knowledge. More importantly, they have insights that allow us to look under the hood of the stock market, explaining how it works and what to look out for.
How is your Roth 401 (k) or 401 (k) investment retirement account linked to the stock market? It's crucial to understand the fundamentals of stock markets. I recommend "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett's newsletters.
I explore the basics - what a stock is and how to buy one, and delve into the world of value investing, exploring strategies to identify undervalued stocks. I cover the NYSE, FTSE, Dow Jones, S&P500, the Russell, CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange), ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds), Mutual Funds, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), and the difference between passive and active investing.
There are many traps for beginner investors and it's good to be aware of the role and risks of options, warrants, CFDs (Contracts for Difference), day trading, bonds, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, the difference between fundamental and technical analysis.
Tracking your investments is essential, and it's important to know about watchlists, understand dividends, robo-investing, dollar-cost averaging, fixed income, index funds, and micro-investing.
What is the role of stockbrokers and online brokers and how to buy and sell stocks.
I've interviewed industry experts and collaborated with Gary Brode, Caleb Silver, Spencer Jakab from Wall Street Journal, Erik Smolinski, Investopedia, Stockopedia, Lawrence Carel, Deep Knowledge Investing, 2 bulls in a china shop.
We have to be smart. We have to be diversified and we have to have good risk management strategies if we want to invest for the long term. That's what I'm all about. I'm Phil Muscatello. Join me on Stocks for Beginners. For more information go to https://www.stocksforbeginners.net/
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 216
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Shawn O'Malley - We Study Markets | Vanity Investing
When too much Shawn is never enough. Here's part 2 of our chat. The highlight for me in this episode is the trap of vanity investing. It's when people talk about their investments as a way of showing…
Casey Stubbs - Trading Strategy Guides | Stay the course, execute the plan
Casey Stubbs is best known for helping people to earn income from actively trading the market. But he's also a believer in putting wealth into longer term investments that will grow steadily over the…
Shawn O'Malley - We Study Markets | In Praise of the S&P500
What’s wrong with helping rich folk get richer? It just didn't make Shawn O'Malley feel good about himself. After a brief Wall Street adjacent career, Shawn made a terrible YouTube video, and ended u…
Chris Panagiotu - CAPitalize your finances | Buffett is not god
My guest in this episode is Christopher A. Panagiotu the author of CAPitalize Your Finances: The How-To Financial Framework That Takes You from Compoundingly Clueless to Monetarily Magnificent. It wa…
Fred Fuld III - Wall Street News Network | Financial Historian
When and why did the CIA create a venture capital fund? How did a failed stockbroker become a literary giant? Fred Fuld III from the Wall Street News Network joined me to discuss Financial History, I…
Gary Brode - Deep Knowledge Investing | Maxing Out The Fiscal Credit Card
Are governments really spending money with the best interests of their own citizens at heart? Join Gary Brode from Deep Knowledge Investing in a thought-provoking conversation about the strange world…
Mark LaMonica - Morningstar | The Joy of Dividends
Mark LaMonica CFA, is an investor, financial educator and the Director of Product Management, Individual Investor at Morningstar. He still recalls the excitement of receiving his first dividend from …
Karl Kaufman - American Dream Investing | Cash without the smoke and mirrors
In this episode Phil and Karl Kaufman discuss the importance of free cash flow as a key metric for investors. Karl explains that free cash flow is the amount of cash left over after a company pays it…
Luke Hallard - 7investing | Weeding out the losers and watering the winners
How can the allocation of your portfolio make or break your financial future? Luke Hallard from 7Investing delves into the intricate world of portfolio structuring and investment strategies, sharing …
Doug Morris - Sharesight Portfolio Management | Bench-pressing the benchmark
Doug Morris is the CEO of Sharesight, a portfolio tracking tool that began as a father-son project in New Zealand. It has grown into a global enterprise with a team of 50. Doug shares the origins of …
Anirban Mahanti - 7investing | Technology Visionary and Tesla Aficionado
In Pursuit of Technology Gems: Unearthing Investments of the Future.
Anirban Mahanti is a lead advisor for 7investing. Before 7Investing, Anirban spent 5-plus years at The Motley Fool in various role…
Michael Kemp - The Ulysses Contract | Avoiding the rocks of investing under-performance
What does an epic poem written around 700BC tell us about investing? How are investors tempted to steer their money onto the rocks of investing underperformance? My guest is Michael Kemp, author of T…
Raji Khabbaz- Learn Wall Street | Taking the Wall St bulls by the educational horns
Raji Khabbaz is the founder of Learn Wall Street, a program aimed at teaching financial literacy to grade 7-12 students. Raji is empowering the next generation to make informed financial decisions an…
Phil v Kyle v 2 Bulls in a China Shop
This episode is a little departure from normal transmission. I was inexplicably invited back to the 2 Bulls in a china shop microphone. I love these guys, they have some great guests apart from me! T…
Simon Erickson - 7investing | Data is the new oil
Simon Erickson is the founder and CEO of 7investing. We talk about the current macroeconomic environment, home-court bias, LLMs (Large Language Models), and stock stories from MercadoLibre, Rocket L…
James Hill - MCF Energy | Europe's Quest for Energy Independence
What is the energy sector? How have tensions with Russia impacted global energy markets, and how can Europe's energy security be strengthened amidst conflict, uncertainty and the renewable energy rev…
Dr Richard Smith - RiskSmith | AdvisorGPT - the next frontier of financial advice?
Dr. Richard Smith is the founder and CEO of RiskSmith. He's a renowned mathematician and expert in risk analytics who's helped government agencies and Fortune 500 companies manage complex sets of dat…
Gary Brode - Deep Knowledge Investing | SVB Overdrawn and underfunded
Silicon Valley Bankcorp failed spectacularly in March 2023. The bank, the regulators and the media formed a circle of finger-pointing and blame: In this interview Gary explains "duration risk". Durat…
Chris Miles - Money Ripples | A million dollars down and back again
What's a financial advisor and how can they help us? What can a ballroom dancer teach us about financial freedom? Chris Miles is the CEO and founder of Money Ripples. He's a cash flow expert and anti…
Spencer Jakab from the Wall Street Journal | The Revolution That Wasn't
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: GameS…