By learning how the stock market really works, you can give yourself an advantage over 99.99 percent of people who try to profit from it. Rather than sudden spikes of profit, followed by massive slumps in losses, you’ll get steady, consistent profits if you start putting these tips, ideas, and strategies into practice without delay.

At a time of frightening volatility, what is the average investor to do? The answer: Turn to Burton G. Malkiel's advice in his reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established as the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio or 401(k), A Random Walk Down Wall Street now features new material on "tax-loss harvesting", the crown jewel of tax management; the current bitcoin bubble; and automated investment advisers; as well as a brand-new chapter on factor investing and risk parity.

In finance, as in life, there's no such thing as a free lunch - unless you're well diversified. The push toward diversification inspires many investors to buy index funds, which is a smart move. But most people have missed the chance to diversify over their investing lifecycle.

Risk. It can be kryptonite for investors, no matter your investment amount or level of experience. But, like many obstacles to success, risk is a challenge only overcome by facing it head-on. What if you could attack risk, rather than hide from it? What if there were even a way to leverage it for profit? The first step in investment success is adjusting how you think about risk. In The All Weather Trader, Trendstat Capital founder and “Mr. Serenity” Tom Basso reveals his philosophy for learning to embrace risk and use it to benefit your investments.

We may officially be in a bear market, but with this guide, you can still make a profit amid a market downturn. These past few years have been filled with unprecedented historical events that will make future generations wonder how we survived such crises. As your guide, this audiobook will help you gain a broader perspective on bear markets to let you see, with a clearer mind, which investments you should prioritize to maximize your profits while others panic.

Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past. Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change. With his usual elan, Morgan Housel presents a master class on optimizing risk, seizing opportunity, and living your best life. Through a sequence of engaging stories and pithy examples, he shows how we can use our newfound grasp of the unchanging to see around corners.

Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure. Any ambitious proposal, however, inevitably runs into the buzz saw of how to find the money to pay for it, rooted in myths about deficits that are hobbling us as a country.

Want to expand your portfolio beyond stocks and mutual funds? Then take a look at exchange-traded funds (ETFs)! A cross between an index fund and a stock, they're transparent, easy to trade, and tax-efficient. They're also enticing because they consist of a bundle of assets, so diversifying your portfolio is easy. You might have even seen them offered in your 401(k) or 529 college plan.

Warren Buffett remains one of the most sought-after and watched figures in business today. He has become a billionaire and investment sage by buying chunks of companies and holding onto them, managing them as businesses, and eventually reaping huge profits for himself and investors in Berkshire Hathaway. The first two editions of The Warren Buffett Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind the spectacular success of living legend Warren E. Buffett.

Mary Buffett and David Clark clearly outline Warren Buffett's strategies in a way that will appeal to newcomers and seasoned Buffettologists alike. Inspired by the seminal work of Buffett's mentor, Benjamin Graham ( The Interpretation of Financial Statements, 1937), this book presents Buffett's interpretation of financial statements with anecdotes and quotes from the master investor himself.

Learn a powerful trading strategy in just 15 minutes. Then use it to make money for the rest of your life. Ready to get started trading stocks, but don't know where to begin? In this book, I have collected the most popular trading strategies from my previous books: The Rubber Band Stocks Strategy, The Rocket Stocks Strategy, and The Day Sniper Trading Strategy.

When you own dividend stocks, your money is working for you whether you are at the office, or at the beach. Imagine how your life would change, if you knew that you were on the proven path to wealth. It's time to learn how to create safe income streams in the stock market. Dividend investing is something that anyone can do. You can start with just a few dollars, and then watch them grow. It's time to learn a proven strategy that takes the stress out of investing.

A complete trading system using technical analysis to find trading opportunities and options spreads as the primary trading vehicle. Here are some of the things you can find in this book: Rules for entering trades, exiting profitable trades, stop losses, trade management, portfolio allocation, and risk management; spotting the right trading opportunities using technical analysis; a simple strategy that keeps doubling your money over and over again; and more.

Have you always had an interest in the stock market, but found it too overwhelming to begin learning about it? If so, then this guide is for you! Investing in the stock market is one of the best ways to create long term wealth for you and your family! The guidelines, strategies, and tips included here will teach you how to not just get into the market, but to work it just like a pro.

This book will not only show you why you can’t rely on government bonds for your retirement, it will also show you exactly what to do instead. Hint: It doesn’t involve relying on Social Security.

William Bernstein's commonsense approach to portfolio construction has served investors well during the past turbulent decade - and it's what made The Four Pillars of Investing an instant classic when it was first published nearly a decade ago. This down-to-earth book lays out in easy-to-understand prose the four essential topics that every investor must master: the relationship of risk and reward, the history of the market, the psychology of the investor and the market, and the folly of taking financial advice from investment salespeople.

Adopt the investment strategy that built Warren Buffett's fortune. Invest Like a Guru provides an invaluable resource for high-quality-focused value investing, with expert insight and practical tools for implementation. Written by the man behind GuruFocus.com, this book expands on the site's value strategies and research tools to provide a primer for those exploring pathways to higher returns at lower risk.

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is the classic guide to getting smart about the market. Legendary mutual fund pioneer John C. Bogle reveals his key to getting more out of investing: low-cost index funds. Bogle describes the simplest and most effective investment strategy for building wealth over the long term: buy and hold, at very low cost, a mutual fund that tracks a broad stock market Index such as the S&P 500.

Listeners are offered a first-class education in building, growing, and defending an individual portfolio, one investment strategy at a time. From learning to think like an investor to finding a first stock, from international investing to community-based online tools, this audiobook takes the reader through the essential strategies for building any portfolio, no matter how small its start or how big its ambitions.

In finance, as in life, there's no such thing as a free lunch - unless you're well diversified. The push toward diversification inspires many investors to buy index funds, which is a smart move. But most people have missed the chance to diversify over their investing lifecycle.