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The student investor bible. Access resources, expert insights, and strategic learning tools designed to elevate your financial skills.
Weekly newsletter providing actionable financial insights, investment and personal finance guidance for beginners, stock market and business news, stock picks, and expert tips to help you make smart decisions and achieve your financial goals.
subscribeMarketWatch provides the latest stock market, financial and business news. Get stock market quotes, personal finance advice, company news and more.
https://www.marketwatch.com
Seeking Alpha is the world’s leading investing community. Our investors connect daily to discover and share new investing ideas, discuss the latest news, debate the merits of stocks, and make informed investment decisions. Seeking Alpha’s content has unparalleled breadth and depth: from stocks, ETFs and mutual funds to commodities and cryptocurrency. We give investors access to professional-caliber investing tools - including factor grades and quant ratings that summarize each stock’s characteristics. From nearly all U.S. securities, our quant algorithm picks stocks with the strongest collective metrics vs. the sector. Our ‘Strong Buy’ stock picks are currently beating the market by more than 4-to-1.
https://seekingalpha.com
Where the world charts, chats and trades markets. We're a supercharged super-charting platform and social network for traders and investors.
https://www.tradingview.com
The Motley Fool provides free and premium investment guidance to millions of individual investors around the world. Premium membership services provide stock recommendations, detailed analysis of companies, model portfolios, live streaming video during market hours, and more. Free market news and commentary with hundreds of new articles published each week. Member-only tools and programming for building your ideal portfolio, tracking your performance, and monitoring companies of interest.
https://www.fool.com
The most complete and affordable options, equity, flow platform available to retail traders, focused not only on leveling the playing field for retail traders, but on building awareness for topics such as Congressional insider trading and corporate lobbying in America. Dedicated to reporting large and influential stock buyers (“unusual whales”), typically politicians. Unusual Whales utilizes a variety of different data sources to bring you fast and accurate market data. Whether it's options flow data, dark pool prints, analyst price targets, or the news, we've got you covered.
https://unusualwhales.com
Offers free resources like games, articles, and lesson plans, designed to help improve financial skills in budgeting, saving, and responsible spending.
https://www.practicalmoneyskills.com
With practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard, Khan Academy empowers learners to study at their own pace, both in and out of the classroom. Covering subjects from kindergarten through early college, including math, science, reading, computing, history, art history, economics, financial literacy, SAT, MCAT, and more, Khan Academy focuses on skill mastery to help learners build the strong foundations they need to succeed in higher education and in their careers.
Finance and Capital Markets provides video lessons on personal finance, investing, and economics.
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance
The Balance makes personal finance easy to understand. It is home to experts who provide clear, practical advice on managing your money. Every day, we publish news, how-to guides, and product reviews to help you make sense of every aspect of your financial life.Whether you’re looking to invest, buy a home, save for retirement, or achieve another financial goal, The Balance’s 20-year-strong library of more than 10,000 pieces of content will answer your questions with straightforward personal financial advice.
https://www.thebalance.com
(Named after Vanguard founder John Bogle.) A community-driven platform focused on low-cost investing with forums, guides, and FAQs.
https://www.bogleheads.org
Best for comparisons and reviews of financial products, but also has helpful guides on personal finance topics like investing, credit, and debt management.
https://www.nerdwallet.com
Our mission is to provide the best advice and recommendations to help you start your financial life on the right foot. Specifically for young adults, providing advice on a beginner’s financial journey.
https://www.moneyunder30.com
A free, non-commercial online resource specifically for college students, offering articles and tools on budgeting, debt, and financial planning.
https://www.cashcourse.org
A blog about a family's journey to financial independence through frugal living! Great for tips and inspiration on budgeting, saving, and investing for those who want to try a more efficient lifestyle.
https://www.frugalwoods.com
Fidelity has a free education center with helpful videos, articles, webinars, FAQ page, infographics/brochures, etc. They also have something called the “Trading Strategy Desk,” where you can attend live sessions of trading and ask questions. According to some reviews, these sessions usually have a maximum of 100 people attending! “Fidelity Spire” is also a newly-launched app for investors to make financial goals with articles to guide you for any questions you have. Something unique about their education resources is that you can access them without a Fidelity account.
https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/overview
E*TRADE’s education resources include videos, tutorials, courses, articles, and a full library where you can search any questions you might have. They cover topics like getting started, options, and taxes. They update their learning center frequently, and also provide market news.
https://us.etrade.com/
WeBull’s learning center offers different courses and videos for options, ETFs, crypto, technical analysis, and more. They also offer rewards for completing their courses. For example, you can get free Level 2 quotes (more advanced stock data that you usually have to pay for) for completing their 9 part options course. Another fun perk is WeBull allows you to comment on and rate certain stocks, and see other people’s ratings, etc., like Stocktwits (a social media app for traders only) but built in. You can also ask questions!
https://www.webull.com/
Charles Schwab has a lot of educational resources, such as online webinars and articles, podcasts (“Choiceology” and “Financial Decoder”), as well as live events! The live events are hosted at their in-person locations. They also have videos on how to use their platform, which is technically an educational resource.
https://www.schwab.com/
Vanguard’s educational resources include articles, videos, and podcasts. Their articles cover topics relevant to who usually uses their platform, so they cover things like what are retirement accounts or how to start investing long term, which are helpful to beginners. Other resources that may be helpful to beginners that Vanguard offers are a glossary as well as a “life-planning” tool with calculators where you can estimate your finances in the future.
https://investor.vanguard.com/
A classic guide on value investing, teaching readers to rely on thorough analysis rather than speculation, by following principles like risk management, long-term planning, and the importance of understanding market fluctuations.
https://a.co/d/5Mh4Q1p
A self-help book that explores the principles of success and wealth creation, based on Hill's study of successful individuals and their habits.
https://a.co/d/fZHepAM
Strategies for escaping the 9-to-5, teaching productivity optimization, and outsourcing to achieve a more flexible, fulfilling life through automating income.
https://a.co/d/fFmRn2I
A collection of stories set in ancient Babylon that explore frugality, financial planning, and wealth-building principles that are still applicable today.
https://a.co/d/7DFeclu
Overview of arbitrage strategies that minimize risks while maximize returns, explaining how people can profit from price discrepancies across different markets or platforms, from shoes to real-estate to stocks.
https://a.co/d/2fICPio
This book explores the complex relationship between money, behavior, and decision-making, offering insights into how psychological factors influence financial success.
https://a.co/d/eNjIw0o
A concise guide by a hedge-fund manager and professor that introduces the "Magic Formula" for investing, combining principles of value investing with a simple, actionable strategy.
https://a.co/d/5GiSApl
Covers both technical and fundamental strategies for forex trading, providing insights into market trends, risk management, and trading tactics.
https://a.co/d/2rFyi30
Perfect for beginners, an introduction to the concepts of efficient markets and passive investing, advocating for a long-term, diversified approach to building wealth.
https://a.co/d/i5q3F9n
Written by an experienced trader currently working at HSBC, this book offers an in-depth look at forex trading, combining practical strategies with insights into the psychology and mindset needed to succeed.
https://a.co/d/aOX1YI8
Written by a young financial educator, this book uses relatable examples to teach teens and young adults about budgeting, saving, investing, and smart financial decision-making.
https://a.co/d/hKf0jSy
A finance guide by a young adult aimed at young adults, that covers essential topics like budgeting, saving, investing, and debt in a relatable, engaging way.
https://a.co/d/49pVT1r
Written by a Gen-Z stock trader, this book is a humorous guide to investing and retail trading. Includes guide on technical analysis, fundamental analysis, vocabulary, brokers, and general trading strategies.
https://a.co/d/hxgqf0F
Written by a 19-year old entrepreneur, this book helps you start your own business – from brainstorming to branding and marketing.
https://a.co/d/gpjNQ7A
Simple, beginner-friendly videos about stocks and market news.
Thorough beginner options course, diving deep into what options are, options greeks, along with other technical analysis focused videos.
Walk-through how-to videos that cover marketing arbitrage (dropshipping) and real estate arbitrage, providing real-life examples and reflections.
Self-help advice and passive income ideas/strategies for beginner entrepreneurs.
Live technical analysis of successful, real-life trades.
Educational videos on economics by the co-host of Crash Course Economics.
