Value Investing Explained
for Young Investors
A free guide for aspiring young investors
Learn what value investing is, how it could be applied to real-world stocks, and what to do if you want to make it your career.
This curriculum will equip you with the tools which will:
- Put you on the path to becoming a great investor
- The career advice you need in order to land a job out of college
- The philosophical framework I use to guide me in life
- Case studies and books that have shaped my thinking on investing.
Investing Principles
Letter to a Young Investor
Advice I’d give myself upon graduation about what investing approach to take, how to start investing and stand out among your peers.
Tevye Was a Rich Man
Explains how to calculate the value of an asset, determine a good buy price for an asset, and how not to get swept up in the market.
The 6 Commandments of Value Investing
A complete overview of value investing theory and how to apply it.
Career Advice
How Not To Lose a Job That’s Yours
This letter contains insights and lessons that could go beyond the intended recipient and could help anyone who is looking for a job.
Embrace Good Problems: Advice to Young People Today
If you are looking for a job or uncertain about life, read this to understand you are not alone. This provides a guide to what you can do.
Stoicism
Sitting on the Tarmac in The Land of Stoicism
We should look at moments as little Stoic tests, or opportunities to practice Stoic training.
Each Day Is a Separate Life
Stoic advice to how you can start every day anew and tackle life’s challenges.
Temporary Insanity
Anger does more harm than good. The Stoics can offer you guidance in confronting the difficult people in life.
Life Advice
Go Ahead, Covet Your Neighbor’s Wife.
As an investor, you get something out of all the deadly sins – except for envy. Being envious of someone else is pretty stupid.
Personal Finance Advice That Changed My Life
This personal finance advice changed my life, and it can change yours.
Case Studies
McKesson: Why the Best is Yet to Come
Despite the threats of Amazon and the opioid crisis lawsuit, we’ve been banking on McKesson for over a year now. Our analysis, arranged in chronological order as the stock rose and fell.
Our Analysis of UBER
Our analysis of an emerging new market and the company that we think will dominate, not a “traditional” value investor’s pick.
Tesla, Elon Musk and the EV revolution
An analysis of what’s in store for the man, the company, and the industry by a value investor and newly-minted Tesla owner.
