Brian Feroldi, Financial Educator, 'The undeniable long-term trend is that buy and hold investing works', Episode 60

Investing Matters

Peter Lynch said, “If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language..”

Here is a wonderful opportunity to gain insight into the fantastic and hugely successful journey of Brian Feroldi, who has been preparing and educating individuals towards better financial futures. This is typified by Brian’s career mission statement which is “to demystify the stock market.”

As a financial educator Brian has written over 3,000 articles on stocks, investing, and personal finance for the Motley Fool, author, speaker, and hugely successful YouTuber. He has an MBA in finance and has been investing since 2004. Brian is the author of the best-selling book, Why Does the Stock Market Go Up? His thorough expert understanding of the markets compounds his rightful aversion for selling quality investment holdings. He is also a student of the Peter Lynch investor philosophy which states, “The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”

As Mark Twain stated, “the secret of getting ahead is getting started”. Therefore, please listen now to this fascinating and inspiring Investing Matters interview with Brian Feroldi, in which he explains why the stock market goes up and our discussion also includes:

-Brian’s first exposure to stocks and the Dow Jones Industrial Average

-Brian’s initial view the Stock Market

-The right and wrong way to invest

-Importance of reading, passion for learning

-The importance of learning from mistakes

-Brian’s investing mistakes

-The biggest investing mistake

-Aversion to selling stocks

-Identifying multi-bagger stocks

- The network affect

-Motley Fool

-How he honed his writing and investing skills

-Why do stock markets continually go up?

- An overview of Brian’s best-selling book "Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?"

-The Wall St Journal, Charles Dow, Edward Jones

-Overtrading

-Compounding affect

-Psychology

-Importance of studying market history

-Why todays investors are spoilt

-Buy and Holding investing

-Dollar cost averaging

-Know thyself / Study your investing behaviour

-Financial freedom

-Some of the main rules for successful investing

-Competitive advantage, Moat, Counter positioning

-Stocks include; Microsoft, MercadoLibre, Netflix, Clear Secure Inc

-The importance of a long-term investing mindset

-You will gain an understanding as to why Brian at the time of this podcast has 534.5k followers on Twitter/X

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