Essential Guide to Stock Investing PDF helps beginners navigate stock investing. It advocates long-term equity investment over fixed deposits, addressing fear of market volatility with a calm, goal-focused approach. Key advice includes avoiding borrowed funds, securing short-term needs, and resisting panic trades.
It compares stocks to mutual funds, favoring stocks for cost and flexibility. The guide suggests selecting stocks using Peter Lynch’s consumer-based method, supported by metrics like ROE and PEG. It covers holding stocks long-term, the trading process (via bank, trading, and demat accounts), costs, and choosing discount brokers for value.
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Apple Inc. is the world’s largest company. Its founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are hailed as heroes of our age. Its iPhone and iPad have conquered the globe. However few people know that it also had a third founder – Ron Wayne who sold his stake in Apple for just $800 in 1976. Had he kept his stake, it would have now been worth $35 billion.
Ron Wayne is counted as one of the unluckiest men in the world. However can any one of us confidently say that we would not have done the same thing with a virtually unknown company in
a pre-computer age?
Your interest in this report suggests that you are thinking of investing in shares, if not investing already. In either case, this report should be of use to you. If you are a new investor, this report will help you get started and if you already invest in shares, it should help you get better at it.
In this report we explain why you should be investing in stocks or shares, how you should go about picking your stocks and how you can actually transact in the stock market.