Lately, many people have approached me asking, "I want to start investing, teach me how." To which I ask, "How much do you know?" And the replies will always be, "I know nothing, teach me from scratch." So I figured that there might be many more people like you out here, who have zero knowledge about investing but want to start. Thus this post, on how to start investing from ground zero. The stock market and other investment vehicles In economics, there is an impossible trinity whereby (1) a fixed foreign exchange rate, (2) free capital movement and (3) an independent monetary policy cannot all exist at the same time. In investing, we also have an impossible trinity. This trinity comprise of (1) low risk, (2) high returns and (3) high liquidity. There can be no liquid investment vehicle giving high return with low risk. If you ......