What investing books do you recommend for someone just starting out on their investing journey? That’s a question I get a lot. And I usually answer it with a question. What are you exactly looking for?
- Personal finance?
- Technical Analysis and trading?
- Mindset building?
- Success stories about entrepreneurs?
- A book to learn the basics or how to read financial statements?
What I didn’t realise is that most people asking for a great investing book don’t necessarily know what they should be looking for.
Some might be bored easily. And not everyone will be keen on learning how to build a three-statement financial model on their own or deep dive into decades of stock market history, or heck even want to bother with the intricate details like building a DCF model or candlestick reading.
Back to basics
The books teaching investment basics tend to
repeat the same ideas and the same conventional wisdom:
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