The Intelligent Investor?
I’m 14 and I’m almost finished with Value Investing for dummies. Would The Intelligent Investor baffle me or can I handle it? I have the termonolgy almost down.
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Don’t talk the talk, Walk the walk.
You don’t have to explain anything to anybody
You have to make choices on investments that get you profits
Forget the terminology, get more education on the investment topics.
I heard (audio book) the Intelligent Investor at 14. I didn’t have a problem handling it. I am happy to hear that you are starting now, its a good thing. I would definetly read Graham and follow that up with One up on Wall Street (Peter Lynch). I think that this ought to give you a solid base of knowledge on which to start investing.
remember books can only teach you so much. the experience that you get in your first few years investing is arguably as valuable (or more valuable) as all of the principles that you learned in your reading.
I would write an answer, but Daniel has (to me) the perfect answer. I have The Intelligent Investor, as well as Security Analysis (NOW THAT’S A HARD READ)! While I could not read the Intelligent Investor, I found the MP3 online and listened to it 3 times and then got a good grasp of it.
The only reason I’m responding is to link to a site to purchase the download. You can burn it to cd via Windows Media Player, and listen to it daily.
July 17th, 2010 at 1:44 am
hi Anthony.
Ben Graham isn’t an easy read. Plenty of college students don’t find him easy either.
yes, you might could plow through some of it.
but I really think you’ll do better to approach the problem from the other end … which is William O’Neil.
you might think of Graham as the theory of what ought to work (which you’ve already started) and then O’Neil as the evidence of what did/does work.
while theory is great, evidence is critical [ask any engineer].
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Van Tharp requires some math. Which is why I put his book after O’Neil.