Reddit reviews Investing 101: From Stocks and Bonds to ETFs and IPOs, an Essential Primer on Building a Profitable Portfolio (Adams 101)

If you don’t already know the basics of the market (ETFs, bonds, options, order types), I just finished reading this book and it is an easy read that covers all the basics.

I think the Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is a universal recommendation for investing strategy and fundamentals. It’s kind of a hard read because it can be boring as shit some times- which is why I did an audio book instead. Get a free audible trial and they give you one book free. Use it for that and take notes as you listen would be my advice.

Robinhood is probably the best option for new investors. If you sign up for web portal access it gets better. Especially with small initial amounts you don’t want to be eating up your returns with commission fees.

When I was at my best non-neet period, I tried looking into options trading and ignorantly and promptly lost a month's salary. I just simview forex now, and would stay away from options/weekly/binary options in general. I'd also looked at investing as prep for retirement, but of course it's a hard dream and often a joke when one is almost-neet and low income and even for poor wageslavery in general. Just be aware there are a lot of scam ads on news sites, and more often on youtube now for trading and interestingly "flipping houses" is making a comeback. For a good primer on investment, I thought this cheap kindle book was good which was used as a textbook in my online community college intro investment course. (https://www.amazon.com/Investing-101-Essential-Profitable-Portfolio/dp/1440595135/). What I liked about the course and book is that it also covered bonds, municipal bonds, and treasury bills/notes, generally other ways of investing besides just the stock market or at least alternative types of funds for investment. I don't know about crypto, maybe too risky. A few days ago a fund pundit guest on CNBC's "Fast Money" was predicting bitcoin could go higher eventually to 25000 but CNBC is pretty much an after the fact reporting entertainment imo and there are guests with opposing views on it all the time.

This was my first investing book


https://www.amazon.com/Investing-101-Essential-Profitable-Portfolio/dp/1440595135


Honestly, I hate how every single person when they recommend an investing book to a complete beginner, they forget they’re a complete beginner.



Every book recommended here won’t let you understand practically anything if your an actual 100% beginner. I always recommend the book I listed above, it will literally run you down everything



Economy, stocks(actual explanation of wtf your doing, not overly complicated investing strategy, that while effective don’t help a complete newb in investing) bonds, real estate, crypto etc. each chapter is like 30 pages but the investing one is the longest. It’s a really fun read, 10/10 would recommend