Beginners Guide to Intelligent Investing - Softcover

Richards, Joseph

9798187717316: Beginners Guide to Intelligent Investing

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798187717316

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

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You know you should be investing. So why does every book on the subject either promise you overnight riches or drown you in jargon you can't use?

You're about to put real money into the market for the first time — and one wrong assumption, one skipped fundamental, could cost you thousands before you even realize what happened. Most "beginner" investing books don't actually start at the beginning. They assume you already know what a stop-loss is, or they skip straight to hype about a "secret system" no honest trader would ever promise.

This book starts where you actually are.

Written for the complete beginner — someone who has never opened a brokerage account and is tired of being sold hype instead of substance — this book walks you through exactly what you need to know before you risk a single dollar, in the order you actually need to know it.

Inside, you'll learn how to:
• Set realistic goals and identify which kind of investor or trader you actually are — before you lose money finding out the hard way
• Read a price chart and understand what supply and demand really mean for where price goes next
• Size every position correctly, so no single trade can put your account at serious risk
• Build a genuine rule-based strategy instead of trading on gut feeling and hope
• Understand ETFs and expense ratios — and see exactly how a "small" 0.75% fee can quietly cost you tens of thousands of dollars over 30 years
• Build a simple, diversified long-term portfolio using the well-documented Core Four approach
• Separate the real structural advantages Wall Street has from the ones that don't actually matter for you
• Walk through a complete, real trade from setup to exit, with the actual numbers shown at every step

Every number in this book is worked out in front of you — not just claimed. Real compounding math. Real position-sizing calculations. Real comparison tables, including the honest caveats and the times the math doesn't work out in your favor.

Why this book is different: the author trades using these same supply-and-demand, rule-based methods every day, with real capital. This isn't theory borrowed from a textbook — it's a working method, explained the way it should have been explained to you from the start.

Scroll up and grab your copy today — and start learning this business the right way.