How to Start Investing in the Stock Market for Beginners

Here are some videos to start from:

This list is by no means exhaustive and to be truly successful in the stock market, there is absolutely no way around doing one’s own research. We hope that you go out there and curate your own information, however, we are always here to serve as your first stop-shop!

Find below an aggregative list of videos to begin learning from!

These videos answer varying questions about the core basics.

Stock Market 101

1. The very basic! If we had to explain the stock market to our 5-year old kid, we’d use this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixF_wB2uvOs

2. We’d watch this video next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl797s8u0QQ

3. Good addition to the crew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EqqfQQEbKQ

When Should I Buy?!

Now that you’re experts on how the stock market works, when exactly should you buy a stock? This video gives some good insight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXDtgPjJ2rA

When Should I Sell?

You’ve bought a stock and its up 5%, 10%, 20% maybe even a 100 %; when should you sell?

Before we proceed, let us quote one of the greatest investors of all time, Charlie Munger (“You don’t make money when you buy and you don’t make money when you sell. You make money when you wait.”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNN1vvFuxyg

Picking Stocks for Beginners

1. Some Warren Buffet Tips: Before you consider making your first investment in the stock market, You should consider watching this video from Warren Buffett. As a long term focused amateur investor one MUST consider the strategies addressed in this video to remain sane in the short term most especially in today’s very volatile market. Buffett gives some very useful advise on investment strategies and mastering the market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZwkbliJr8&t=779s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEs5caq8QNs
2. Dividend Stocks: Dividend stocks presents some decent and relatively low risk opportunities to make money in the stock market. Dividend payers are mostly mature companies that rather pay there shareholders a part of their profit rather than invest in new growth opportunities. So while the stocks probably won’t appreciate massively, one can grow your investment from dividends. This is particularly useful for investing in the Nigerian stock exchange:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfkzfhdJJM4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SXTAzUFA6E, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHCiwgraZPw
3. Expert Advise: How to invest like Warren Buffett by a pretty good portfolio manager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbiib0IBGZY

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