How To Invest In Stocks Like A Pro. The Complete Course!

Value investing, stock market investing, retirement planning

What you'll learn

How to get started investing in stocks with a small amount of money

Learn how to determine if a stock is undervalued or overvalued

Avoid the biggest pitfalls when it comes to investing in individual stocks

Create a portfolio with proper diversification the way the pros do

Requirements

No prior experience necessary. You will learn the proper fundamentals to get started on your investing journey

Description

This course teaches you how to invest in the stock market properly in the style of Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch. Instructor Chris Wargas is a professional portfolio manager and President of First Shelbourne, an investment advisory firm located in New York. Chris will teach you how to value businesses and what pitfalls to avoid.  The course covers all the necessary tools for properly valuing businesses, shows you how to avoid value traps, explains why long-term investing works, and more. This course even has a section on investing in precious metals and retirement planning. You will learn how to properly read a company's financials, how to use the special valuation charts Peter Lynch used when he ran Fidelity's Magellan fund, as well as the strategy Warren Buffett uses. Investing in the stock market shouldn't be a mystery, and this course demystifies many of the concepts used in value investing. At no point will you feel alone when investing. Chris will show you all of the free tools you need to make proper investment decisions. The course goes over all of the hallmarks of successful stocks, and how to find them. Never again will you have to question whether the stock you are buying is overvalued or not.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Expectations

Lecture 2 Dangers of NOT using a value investing approach

Lecture 3 Why stocks? Stocks vs. Real Estate

Lecture 4 Stock Showdown: Value Investing vs. Momentum Trading

Lecture 5 Unveiling the Mystery: Why stocks get mispriced

Lecture 6 Choosing the right brokerage company

Lecture 7 Unleashing the Tax Advantage of Long-Term investing

Lecture 8 Beware: Using charts will not make you money

Section 2: An overview of all the research tools used in this course

Lecture 9 The best free backtesting software

Lecture 10 The best free charting software

Lecture 11 The best free stock screening tool

Lecture 12 Peter Lynch charts: The secret to valuing stocks

Lecture 13 Where to read the financials: The easy way

Lecture 14 Quick hack: Investor presentations

Lecture 15 Conference calls made easy

Section 3: Understanding the financial statements

Lecture 16 Income statement: Overview

Lecture 17 Income statement: Earnings Per Share (EPS)

Lecture 18 Income statement: Long-term debt

Lecture 19 Income statement: Profit margins

Lecture 20 Income statement: Sales

Lecture 21 Reading the balance sheet

Lecture 22 Understanding Goodwill and its dangers

Lecture 23 Cash is king: Understanding the cash flow statement

Section 4: Hallmarks of outperforming stocks

Lecture 24 Dividend growers vs. dividend cutters

Lecture 25 Charlie Munger's weapon: Long-term log charts

Lecture 26 The secret: Return on equity (ROE) and return on invested capital (ROIC).

Lecture 27 Share buybacks: When they work, when they don't

Lecture 28 Mathematics of a share buyback

Lecture 29 Secondary: The opposite of share buybacks. The good and the bad.

Lecture 30 Where to find outperforming stocks

Lecture 31 The repeat customer

Section 5: Valuation: Cracking the Code to buying undervalued stocks

Lecture 32 Demystifying the P/E ratio

Lecture 33 When the P/E ratio becomes a value trap

Lecture 34 IMPORTANT!!! The secrets of Peter Lynch: Buying stocks below their earnings line

Lecture 35 Discounted cash flow analysis: How to use a financial function calculator

Lecture 36 Professionals continually do this one thing

Lecture 37 Case studies of avoiding the overvalued and buying the undervalued

Lecture 38 Why growth stocks are risky

Lecture 39 Economic indicators and the yield curve

Section 6: Retirement planning

Lecture 40 401k plans: The good and the bad

Lecture 41 Roth IRAs and the powerful Roth conversion

Lecture 42 529 plans: How to fund your child's college the easy way

Lecture 43 Sequence of returns risk: The ultimate retirement danger

Lecture 44 Low volatility portfolio construction

Lecture 45 Volatility dampeners: Bonds and CDs

Lecture 46 The biggest pitfalls investors make

Section 7: Investing in precious metals

Lecture 47 Introduction to investing in precious metals

Lecture 48 Historic returns of gold and silver

Lecture 49 All about buying physical gold and silver

Lecture 50 Gold and silver ETFs

Lecture 51 Gold IRAs: Be very afraid

Section 8: Value investing using ETFs

Lecture 52 Beware of actively managed mutual funds

Lecture 53 ETF benefits for value investors

Lecture 54 How to use ETFs for value investing

Lecture 55 The long game: Which ETFs have the best track record

Section 9: Roadblocks to Riches: Common Investor Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Lecture 56 Short selling and GameStop: The short squeeze explained

Lecture 57 Leveraged ETFs: A big warning!

Lecture 58 Should you invest in commodities

Section 10: Empower Your Future: Final Thoughts and Recommended Reading

Lecture 59 Best books to supercharge your investment journey

Lecture 60 Final words: You can do it

Beginner investors all the way up to financial advisors managing portfolios