Why People are Rubbish at Picking Stocks and Don't Get Good Returns

The Great Investments Programme: Take Control of Your Pension with Personal Handholding, Database and Know-How

IMPORTANT 2024 WARNING

IMPORTANT: Why Your Pension is Losing Money with Fund Managers & IFAs (13:54)
Can You Manage Your Own Pension? Should You Transfer from Your Existing IFA or Pension?
What Returns Are We Aiming For?
Cleaning Up a Portfolio Mess You May Have (6:02)
Why Your Pension is Only Up 20% in 10 Years and the Market is Up 400%
How Many Stocks Should Be In Your Pension? Why IFAs and Wealth Managers Make You Poorer

2024 Update: Now with AI: ChatGPT & Twice Weekly Market Updates

How 2023 Turned Out
Great Investments Programme Now with Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT
Twice Weekly Updates 2024

Not Signed Up? Why You Should

Why You Should Sign Up (4:08)
Don't Take My Word For It: Case Studies in Success (0:32)
Most Recent Live Webinar
How Much Should You Look to Make? Your Business Plan and A Return on This Programme
Suitable for Women?
The Making of Billion Pound Managing Fund Managers and Why Your Pension Investments Underperform
What Makes Shares Move (15:09)
Explained: The Stocks Market - Netflix Original Documentary (17:33)
A Simplified Investment Decision Making Process: Flowchart
Why a Hedge Fund Manager Does All This

Preview of Software and Mentoring

My Daily Market Updates on Your Phone (3:37)
A Stock Selection Checklist (1:18)
How To See What's In Top Hedge Funds Portfolios & Bill Gates/Warren Buffett's
Your Major Investing Questions Answered: Overview (56:21)
IMPORTANT: Overview Of the Strategies and the Whole Process (23:46)
Fund Managers are Not Special: Easy to Beat, Hard to Kill
The Way to Get Ahead: Be P*ssed Off, You'll Do Better
It's Not Just Stocks But Countries for Low Risk, High Reward
How to Pick Shares: The Bad Information from Brokers (5:36)
Your Investment Co-Pilot; Drill Sargent, Mentor
3 Minute Guide: One Way a Hedge Fund Manager Picks Stocks (5:46)
Always Remember
Best Brokers

Complete Beginners Start Here (Intermediate can skip)

Frequently Asked Questions - Watch Before Our First Call
Stocks, ETFs, mutual funds/investment trusts: How Do I Decide Which is Right for Me?
Company Valuation Ratios
Understanding How Funds, ETFs and Stocks Trade
The Importance of Diversification
Model Portfolios: Goldman Sachs
Copy of IMPORTANT: Overview Of the Strategies and the Whole Process (23:46)
How Many Stocks Should You Own? Speaks of the the World's Greatest Investors (3:05)
The Simplest Portfolio Holding Strategy
How Much Stocks, Funds, Bonds, Cash? Risk and Age
JP Morgan's Principles of Investing
Safety First: Beating Bank Interest (Bond ETFs)
Understand All Finance and Investing in Under 60 Minutes: World's Leading Hedge Fund Manager Teaches (43:56)
When Should You Sell?

Important Information

Quick Update (241:12)
Please Read First
Software and Website Updates (3:00)
Copy of IMPORTANT: Overview Of the Strategies and the Whole Process (23:46)
Profiting from What's Worked In Investing (2:09)
How to Navigate this Living Updating Course (1:36)
Why You Should Trust Yourself, Not A Fund Manager
Brokers and Platforms for Investing
Don't Trade Your Investments: The Latest Research

Overview - Let's Get You The Right Tools & Set Up Like a Pro

Instant Updates: Telegram Channel
What This Section Is About
Mentoring Contact Details
The World Class Software We Will Use & How I Will Train You (12:02)
Task: Let's Set Up Our Classroom
Copy of IMPORTANT: Overview Of the Strategies and the Whole Process (23:46)
Not Just Stocks But X-Ray Your Portfolio
How to Build a Portfolio & Cost Averaging
But How Do You Know When to Sell?
But How Do You Know Performance Stock from Quality and How Long to Hold? (5:22)

Daily Newsletter & Weekly Updates Newsletter

Goldman Sachs 2024 Update
Deutsche Bank Outlook 2024
Wells Fargo Outlook 2024
HSBC - Investment Outlook 2024
Allianz GI Outlook 2024
Asset Management Outlook 2024 - Goldman Sachs
BNY Mellon Outlook 2024
Fidelity Outlook 2024
Macquarie Global Outlook 2024
BlackRock Global Outlook - 2024
LAZARD Outlook 2024
Amundi Investment Outlook 2024
BNP PARIBAS- Investment Outlook 2024
LGIM Outlook 2024
Lombard Ordier Outlook 2024
J P Morgan Outlook 2024
AXA IM Outlook 2024
Invesco Outlook 2024
ManGroup Outlook 2024
Vanguard Outlook 2024
Capital Group Outlook 2024
M & G Investments Outlook 2024
PIMCO Outlook 2024
T. RowePrice Outlook 2024
UBS Outlook 2024
BARCLAYS Outlook 2024
State Street Outlook 2024
Citi Wealth Outlook 2024
J P Morgan Private Bank Outlook 2024
Goldman Sachs 30 Stocks to Benefit from High Inflation
Citibank and Cambridge University on Risk
Goldman Sachs Report on Cryptocurrencies as an Asset Class
Goldman Sachs says buy these 20 stocks have the most upside potential right now — including 5 set to surge by at least 50%

My Favourite Tools - Summary Overview

Overview
Copy of IMPORTANT: Overview Of the Strategies and the Whole Process (23:46)
Analysts Estimates (4:14)
VGI: Value Growth Income (5:20)
CROCI & Altman: The Goldman Sachs Wealth Management Tool
F Scores (3:01)
Themes: Buy the Dip (7:28)
Themes: Finding High Growth Companies (5:54)
So Easy: Why I, and Warren Buffett, Loves Discount Cash Flow Valuations: Part 1 (4:36)
So Easy: Why I, and Warren Buffett, Loves Discount Cash Flow Valuations: Part 2
Target Price v Cash Flow (2:51)
Getting in the Next Big Thing in Robotics, AI, Genomics, MedTech... (2:42)
Our Approach: The Hedge Fund Killer - Using Nobel Prize Winning Research
Deutsche Bank Wealth Management on CROCI Investment Process
PEG - An Optional Extra Used At Times

Favourite Strategies in Action

Copy of IMPORTANT: Overview Of the Strategies and the Whole Process (23:46)
The Kitchen Sink: CROCI, Momentum, Altman, Piotriski
Strategy 1: Guru Buys: Low to Medium Risk
Strategy 2: Leverage Big on Low Risk: Low to Medium Risk
Strategy 3: X-Ray Quality - Low Risk
Strategy 4A: What Banks Telling Richest Clients - Medium Risk
Strategy 4B: What Do Big Banks Tell Their Clients - Low to Medium Risk
Strategy 5: Cash Flow Is King - Medium to Higher Risk
Strategy 6A: High Returns - Resuming Returns (4:14)
Strategy 6B: "I Want Big Returns - Alpha Wife Request" (7:46)
Strategy 7: Medium Risk ETFs
Strategy 8: Leverage Return Strategy (15:49)
Global Companies Like Alibaba and How to Access Safely
Do Not Trade Your Investments (2:06)
Scoring - What and Why (2:40)
A Return - or a Risk Adjusted Return? (5:36)
Getting A Lot High Return from Safer Stocks Using Controlled Leverage (10:24)
IPOs?
Thinking Like a Investor: First and Second Level Thinking
What If Your Stock Drops? (15:07)
How I Use MACD and Momentum Indicators in Investing (12:23)

The Investment Minute: Bitesize Themes Explored In More Depth In the Programme

Analysts: Right or Wrong (3:04)
A Discipline, Simple Investing Process (6:34)
Company Analysis Scorecards (3:49)
Are Your Investments Leading to a Poverty Gap for You (8:38)
High Frequency Trading Good for Retail Traders (1:40)
How $10k Turns to $600k in Investments without Trading (2:42)
I Don't Want just Value or Just Growth or Just Income Stocks I want Those That Have All of that (4:00)
Options Trading and How Far We Have Come (4:30)
Picking Stocks Like a Maniac Is How Most People Blow Up Their Portfolios (0:51)
Risk Reward for More Zip Returns (4:25)
Rubbish Fund Managers Why You Should Not Trust Them With Your Future (3:14)
So Many Ways to Judge an Investment How Do We Choose (1:52)
The Best Biggest Wall Street Banks Are Contradicting Each Other On Where Markets Will Go Always (0:59)
The S&P's Most Popular Biggest Fund Buys (1:07)
Trading Ideas Not a Good Way (2:08)
Using Leverage Over 12 Months (10:22)
What Should You Do If Your Stock Rises or Falls Sharply (4:26)
What Are Biggest Hedge Funds Buying (2:50)
What Do Goldman Sachs Tell Their Wealthiest Clients (2:30)
What Hedge Funds Look For (4:04)
Who Supplies to Apple Stock Idea (1:18)
Why People are Rubbish at Picking Stocks and Don't Get Good Returns (2:25)
Your Strategy for Market Rises and Market Falls In All Markets (1:33)
Analysts Right or Wrong (3:04)
Are We Overvalued (2:53)
Asset Allocation and Risk Management (7:42)
Correlations (2:45)
Historic Valuations (1:39)
More Exchange Traded Funds Insight (5:21)
MFST Returns 2 (1:59)
Recession and Recovery (2:11)
The Sovreign Wealth Fund and Hedge Fund Owners of a Stock Does It Matter (2:23)
What Does All Investing Involve (2:07)
Which Months Are Good (1:32)
Being An Angel Investor (9:09)
Trying Not To Be Stupid (3:42)
Work From Home Stocks (3:52)

Investing Opportunities

Important: Strategies for Investing
Goldman Sachs: Navigating a Bear Market
Covid: JP Morgan + Others on Opportunities
Existing Holdings Update
Goldman Sachs Report on the Virus
The UK and US Stocks: 28th March 2020 - Altman/Croci
Coronavirus: Lessons in Investing (47:41)
Insights into My Thinking in Investing: Dow Part 1 (7:45)
Insights into my Investment Thinking: Dow Part 2 (6:20)
Insights into My Thinking in Investing: Dow Part 3 (4:17)
Simple Explanation of the Great Oil Crash of 2020
Goldman Sachs Post Vaccine Report
McKinsey: Do Emotions or Fundamentals Move Markets?

What Banks are Telling their Biggest Clients

Hedge Funds and their Best Ideas
UBS: Bear market guidebook How to manage risk and harness opportunity in a market downturn
Excellent Research: The Anatomy of a Recession: What to Look For and Where We’re Headed
Barclays on BIggest Investing Trends: Investing Research Team
Vanguard: Bull and Bear Markets Part 1
Vanguard: Bull and Bear Markets Part 2
Goldman Sachs on Recession Planning
Goldman Sachs: Profile of a Bear Market & What's Likely to Happen
Credit Suisse: Equities & Dividends
UBS: The Future of Technology
Goldman Sachs Says "Buy" - So? (2:54)

Welcome to Online Investing

A Quick Hello From Your Instructor (sorry bit cheesy) (3:07)
Course Overview (4:43)
WHAT HAS WORKED IN INVESTING: Studies of Investment Approaches and Characteristics Associated with Exceptional Returns
Introduction to Stock Exchanges (6:29)
Introduction to Stocks (6:48)
Stock Market Index (10:39)
Trading & Investing (9:52)
How Awesome Are Hedge Fund Careers?
Invest or Trade? Why Not Both?
Compounding (7:25)

Your Questions Answered

Question: Check My Portfolio (3:48)
Student Question: How Many Stocks, Stops, Tax, Diversification (11:08)
Questions: Investing in Private Companies, Leveraged ETFs, Alerts, Portfolio Tweaks (12:50)
Questions: ETF Selection Criteria, Dividends? (6:51)
Should You Add to a Profitable Investment? (8:23)
Can I Copy You? (6:12)
Do You Have A Secret Stash of High Return Companies? (5:06)
How Did You Get the 1000+% Return? (3:49)
What If a Rating Drops? Look Inside a Student Portfolio (4:42)
Stop Losses and Brokers and US Stocks (3:04)

Investing Unplugged Book by Alpesh Patel (normal price $50)

The Book

Smarter Investment Book

The Book

How To Pick Winning Shares Online Using Company Information

Valuing a Company Online In Simple Quick Easy Steps: Apple Example (13:14)
Financial Strength of a Comany - The Apple Example (6:03)
Finding Good Dividend Paying Stocks - The Microsoft Example (4:59)
How Competitive is Your Share Pick - Apple Example (8:04)
5 Essential Ratios of Stock Picking
Measuring Companies: Financial Ratios 1 (7:28)
Evaluating Stocks Through Ratios (5:12)
Finding Undervalued Growth Stocks in 3 Minutes - The Terra Example (2:48)
Simple Steps To Tell You If A Stock Is Overvalued: Facebook Example (3:31)
Finding Undervalued Growth Stocks Using Screeners Free Online (14:27)
Investing Online Through Themes (11:25)
Investing Online In Global Shares (4:46)
Why Most People Fail at Online Trading
Profiting From Market Falls (2:10)
Missing the Best Market Days (3:53)
Penny Shares: Quick Road to Riches or the Poor House? (1:48)
Do Hedge Funds Look at Twitter? What News Do They Examine? (2:49)

More Ways to Pick Winning Shares Online (Beyond Beginner Level)

Forecasting Share Prices With The Ever Popular PE Ratio (3:05)
Forecasting Based On Stock Strategies I (Intermediate Level) (2:21)
Forecasting Based on Stock Strategies II (Intermediate Level) (2:26)
Financial Ratios For Predicting Share Prices (Intermediate) (4:04)
How to Handle Windfall Gains (5:15)
Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers

How To Pick Winning Shares Using Share Charts

Charting For Forecasting (2:26)
Charting Made Easy

How To Build a Market Beating Online Share Portfolio: Part 1 - Diversification

Should You Just Give Your Money To A Professional Fund Manager? (5:31)
What is Diversification and how do I do it cheaply? (7:10)
How Many Shares Should You Own? (3:49)
Balancing Return, Risk and Time (4:46)
Clever Money Asset Allocates (3:17)
Conservative to Aggressive Portfolio Mixes (1:24)
Cycle of Market Emotions and Asset Allocation (1:16)
Portfolio Health: Tips and Tricks from the Financial Times & a Nobel Prize Winner
Correlations and Eggs and Baskets (2:35)
How Bad Could Your Portfolio Suffer? (81:14)
Ways to Pressure Test Any Strategy - Lessons from the US Military (Harvard Business Review)

How To Build A Market Beating Online Share Portfolio: Part 2 - Funds

Exchange Traded Funds: Window to the beating fund managers (16:39)
Exchange Traded Funds - An Introduction (21:31)
Buying a Bundle of Stocks in One Click - Why It Makes Sense
Investing in Exciting Regions and Sectors Through One Product - ETFs (15:27)
Essential Facts & Dangers of Investing with Professional Fund Managers (3:02)
Investing in a Basket of Europe's Largest 50 Stocks (5:47)
Invest in Emerging Markets Online
Investing In Property Through Online Shares (4:32)
Finding The Nex Big Thing (9:23)
The Risks of A Basket of Stocks

Trading For a Living

Trading as a Business (8:07)
Should You Just Use a Stock Market Newsletter?

Picking Brokers and Opening Accounts

A Step by Step Guide To Opening a US Online Trading Account (2:15)
Trading Platforms - Part 1 (7:20)
Trading Platforms - Part 2 (2:47)
Trading Platforms - Part 3 (5:43)
How To Open An Online Trading Account - UK (5:12)
Placing the Right Order To Profit (3:37)
Investment Scams
A Tax Free Way of Trading Online (1:25)

Trading Pyschology

Pyschology of Trading Success (18:22)
Addicted to Trading
When Do Investors Freak Out?: Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling

What's Important

Let's Make Finance More Accessible
Time Machine - Making Time: Billionaire Rules
My BBC Pitch to Richard Branson in front of 300m
Rejection is Better than Promotion

Words of Wisdom from the Best in the World

What Would Warren Buffett Advise?
10 Commandments of Equity Investors
Greatest Investors of All Time and How They Did It
Warren Buffett Reveals His Investment Strategy (59:29)
The Hedge Fund Manager Who Saw the 2008 Crisis: Don't Mistake Leverage for Genius (10:43)
50 Lessons On Investing from The Greatest Investor
What The Legacy of Jim Simons Can Teach Investors About Markets (7:39)
Watch CNBC's Full Interview With Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger and Bill Gates (126:06)
Watch CNBC's Full Interview With Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet (120:57)
Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO talks Coronavirus and the US (48:58)
Warren Buffet On Why He'll Never Sell a Share of Coke Stock (6:51)
Warren Buffet Just Looking At The Price Is Not Investing (13:05)
Tour Warren Buffet's Office (2:26)
The Scientific Method and Investment Management (12:47)
The Mathematician Who Cracked Wall Street Jim Simons (23:07)
Iconic Investor Warren Buffet Lays Out The History Of The US Economy (56:00)
Ed Thorpe Talks Roulette and Financial Market Investment Talks at Winton (4:55)
Don't Sleepwalk Through Life Warren Buffet (3:22)

Advanced Section

Compounding - The 8th Wonder of the World (7:24)
Performance Measurement
What Has Worked Well in Stock Picking
Using Cash Flow To Decide To Buy (3:33)
Asset Allocation - an Overview (6:09)
Charting From A to Z - with Steve Achelis
What is Quantative Easing?
What Causes Flash Crashes?
7 Chart Patterns That Consistently Make Money
Alpesh Patel Credentials (1:38)
Conclusion & Thank You (2:54)
How It Used to Be (4:20)

Careers in Fund Management and Hedge Funds

Hedge Fund Strategies
Hedge Fund Books
Hedge Fund Analyst
The Hedge Fund Interview
Hedge Fund Jobs
Hedge Fund Resume/CV
Real Hedge Fund Case Study - Pitch
Top Quant Hedge Funds
Investment Banking Resume
Investment Banking Job Interview

Book: The World's Largest Hedge Fund CEO's Advice & Warren Buffett

Ray Dalio: Principles of Success
Buffett's Ground Rules

The 49 Rules of Wealth

49 Rules

Worth Reading on Risk and Ambition

Good Risk, Bad Risk
The Right Level of Ambition
Focus: Harvard Business School
Making Money in the Markets Is Not All It's Cracked Up to Be (3:01)

The Importance of Fixed Income

What is Fixed Income? When Do I Need It?

New Developments in Investing

What is ESG and Sustainable Investing - Can It Make You Money? (4:50)

Inspiring People in Finance and Entrepreneurship

Social Mobility Through The Markets

Important Research on Investing

18 topics badly explained by many Finance Professors
The Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds
Nobel Prize Winning Article on Portfolio Selection
Relationship Between Stock Value and Performance
Does Last Year's Hot Fund Perform Well the Year After?
Name Recognition in Stock Picking Winners
Research on How Investors Get It Wrong and Why and What to Do
Nobel Prize Winning Paper on Multi-Factor Investing

Diversification and Investing: Research

Global Diversification
Stocks of Admired Companies and Spurned Ones
Predicting Bond Returns: 70 years of International Evidence
How much diversification is enough?
Questionnaires of risk tolerance, regret, overconfidence, and other investor propensities
What do investors want?
Easy Volatility Investing
Leverage for the Long Run
Financial Advertising in the Second Generation of Behavioral Finance
Measuring the Benefits of Diversification and the Performance of Money Managers
Normal Investors, Then and Now
What Investors really want
A century of investors
Investor Personality in Investor Questionnaires
101 Formulaic Alphas
Ratio Analysis and Equity Valuation

Why People are Rubbish at Picking Stocks and Don't Get Good Returns

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