What books can you suggest to read for a person starting to learn investing, real estate and business?

Mar 19, 2007 by Trax G | Posted in Investing

Recently I read a few books for knowledge about investing and attitude to investment and real estate but I think to learn much more about this area. However, for a beginner, I do not know where or what books to start reading.
Could you guys help me out?

Hi,

Forget "Random Walk", it has been totally discredited, most recently, by its own author.

Do your duty of care. Your own ideas are the best. Do not rely on someone else to select titles for you. Learn to invest so that you do not ask what stocks to invest in. be autonomous.

Remember what Emerson said: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and theologians. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Find stocks that are in constant increase of net profits (profits), low debt and good P / Es.

What interests you? Find Stocks pique your interest and passion.

You need good stocks with rapidly growing earnings and well in many areas. You need to learn more about the stock market before even thinking of investing in it.

The world inventory is divided into 12 sectors such as energy, which is owned by Chevron. It is next to last in the list of sectors today.

Technology is numero uno, but in the sector, the fastest growing are computer services, not Microsoft. Then, Electronic Instruments and controls. Call the computer storage devices.

The warm sector is health, but heed the warning below. Go here for sectors: (technicals http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/I? Event = srp & section = Redge & a mp; refer = / redge.html)

The best software is Vector Vest if you can afford. It has invested sector.

Here is a free Web site for charting stocks: (http://www.incrediblecharts.com/).

Firstly, stay away from "professional brokers" and tips coming to you via e-mail or friends and acquaintances. And advice on Yahoo! Answers. Make your own due diligence - do not rely on someone else. Read Emerson's essay "Self Reliance.

Hey! They say anything to get you to buy their junk. If it sounds too good to be true is true.

Remember that they are only sellers trying to sell you what their business is growing. They are not security analysts or financial planners, not even financial advisers.Trust me, I know from experience that they can not be trusted especially with a million dollars. You risk losing everything. An account of one million dollars is known as a whale "and they would love to get their greedy little paws on it and suck it dry. They just want to make commissions on what they buy and sell the suckers, err ... the customers ..

The risk avoidance is the name of the game.

Remember, the more I work the more chance I get.

"Penny stocks" are superb, but as highly speculative. I would like to avoid those less than one dollar per share. For example, Best Buy started at less than $ 5.So there are some good companies, but it takes a lot of digging to find the good. Looking for companies with good yields, little debt, low capitalization, and good P / Es. For stocks under $ 5, very few meet these requirements.

Stay away from PHARMS unless they have patented drugs - do not invest in Pharma generic no growth there.

Find out what sectors are the most popular and invest in companies from these sectors. The number one, two and three: Technology of health care and cyclicals (retail). They change regularly so keep current.

Go here for a list of growth stocks: alysis/ratings/10345212.html http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/newsan? Cm_ven GOOG = LEN & cm_cat = FREE & cm_ite = NA

There are these lists all over the Web - you pays your money and takes your chances.

Watch CNBC, but do not pay too much attention to the Talking Heads, with the exception of Jim Cramer, the wild man - but he tries to teach you how to invest and has some advice.

Get Money Jim Cramer's Real: Sane Investing in an insane world of James J. Cramer

Listen to Jim Cramer on CNBC.com

Go to Clearstation for quotes and tutorials on Investment (http://clearstation.etrade.com/). Registration is free. Look up a few stocks. Do their tutorials. Check out the sectors.

Get this book: Value Investing: From Graham to Warren Buffett and Beyond Wiley Finance () by Bruce CN Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin and Michael van Biema.

Another good book: The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens: 8 Steps to get more money than your parents ever dreamed of (Motley Fool) by David Gardner, Tom Gardner, and Selena Maranjian

Mad Money's Jim Cramer: Watch TV, Get Rich by James J. Cramer and Cliff Mason

I Want to Make Money in the Stock Market: Learn to Begin Investing Without Losing Your Life Savings! by Chris M. Hart \

Sensible Stock Investing: How to Pick, Value, and Manage inventory by David P.Van Knapp

Stock Investing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) by Paul Mladjenovic

All About Stock Market Strategies: The Easy Way To Get Started by David Brown and Kassandra Bentley

The Motley Fool Investment Guide and website (http://www.fool.com/).

The Little Black Book of Microcap Investing: Beat the Market with NASDAQ / AMEX Microcap Stocks, OTCBB Stock shares, and Pink Sheet Stocks by Dan Holtzclaw

How To Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition by William J.O'Neil

Negotiation for a living psychology:, Trading Tactics, Money Management by Alexander Elder

Major trends in the negotiations: Strategies to Master Major Market Moves (A Marketplace Book) by Price Headley

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Paperback)
by Charles Mackay (Author), Andrew Tobias (Foreword) This book talks about the tulip craze in Holland where people would mortgage their house to buy tulip bulbs. The same thing happened in 2001 - 2002 with the Internet bubble that brought the stock market to its knees.The virtual companies were tulip bulbs.

Buy Investors Business Daily. It has lots of tutorials and I like it better than the stodgy Wall Street Journal.

Money Game by Adam Smith

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings (Wiley Investment Classics) (Hardcover)
Philip A. Fisher. Recommended by Warren Buffet who took $ 100,000 and grew to 34 billion dollars!

Value Investing with the Masters by Kirk Kazanjian

Valuegrowth Investing by Glen Arnold

The 5 Keys to Value Investing by J.Dennis Jean-Jacques

The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed (Collins Business Essentials) by Benjamin Graham. Warren Buffet was his student at Columbia.

The Money Masters by John Train

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore

Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor by John C.Bogle

Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science of Behavioral Economics by Gary Belsky

Rule # 1: The simple strategy for successful investment in just 15 minutes a week! by Phil Town. See their website at (http://www.ruleoneinvestor.com/). Join free. I had the book at the library.

Listen. You do not spend much money on these books - most can be found at your library and those that your library does not own, they can usually obtain from other libraries in your state.

Most of these books talk about stocks and investing in mutual funds, but a good introduction to other forms of investing Gerald Appel has a great book called investment opportunity - How to profit when stocks advance , stocks decline, inflation Run Rampant, prices fall, oil prices hit the roof and Every Time In Between.

First, Break All the Rules: What the World Greatest Managers do differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman Not a book on investing, but it is a Nice segue into the next book.

Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O.Clifton

Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps For outstanding performance by Marcus Buckingham

Finding your strengths is important when investing. These books teach you to leverage your strengths, what you have a property to. Everyone is good or passionate about something. Why not become better at what you're good?

Another good book is: investment opportunity: How to Profit When Stocks Advance, Stocks Decline, inflation rampant, prices fall, oil prices hit the roof ...and Every Time in Between (Hardcover)
by Gerald Appel

Most mutual funds do not even follow the declaration on the S & P. This is equivalent to 99% of them.

Vanguard Index funds are obvious.

A CD is better than a savings account. They range from six months to several years. You can not touch your money until the Tho time has elapsed.

Check out this website Direct Investment Plans where you can buy shares directly from companies: (http://www.fool.com/School/DRIPs.htm). Usually no fees and you can buy a share at the time.

Bonds are probably the safest. You can try a bond fund. They could go back 5 or 6 per cent. At 5% a million would return $ 50,000 per year - not a bad income. Remember, you have to pay taxes on $ 50,000.

There are also municipal bonds and the income they generate is Taxfree especially if you buy them in a state that offers them, but they pay only about 3%, but above duty.

Look into Fidelity sector funds. Buy the first three, then six months, see how they do and they are not so hot, select the following three are the best.Do this for several years and you can earn lots of money.

Kindest personal regards,

Walt Brown
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PS It is a life-long learning process. Reading these books and applying the rules to analyzing stocks that may be good, it takes time. Be patient and keep reading and listening. Do not be a sucker and follow someone elses advice. Be your own man or woman. Depend on no one except yourself. You can get smarter and stronger that way.

PPSThe Internet has lots of good things, for example (http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:movi ng_average_conve
Stockcharts.com is very good and their discussion of MACD is one of the best, but its creator, Gerald Apple, but now we go into the technical analysis and not for beginners. But it is important for finding good stocks that are being and growth. Remember, turn into small acorns mighty oaks.

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