Stock Investing for Dummies giveaway/review

Stock Investing for Dummies review

I just finished listening to Stock Investing for Dummies by Paul Mladjenovic. All in all, it isn’t a bad book for beginners who want to start learning about stock investing. The author covers the basics and touches on quite a few other topics as well. Interestingly, he forecasted and talked quite a bit about the impending recession that we are currently going through. The book was released back in 2005.

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While I think the book does a good job covering the basics of stock investing, it leaves the reader/listener with the general impression that stock-picking is very time consuming and difficult. I personally don’t believe that to be the case. I don’t have decades of successes behind me to prove my theory, but when I do I will let you know!

In general, the book was very much like a college textbook for stock-picking. It’s one of those books that is great as a resource, but doesn’t have the inspiring pizazz to get you to want to run out and start investing. Peter Lynch’s One up on Wall Street or The Little Book that Beats the Market leave you feeling super excited about investing. Neither is as detailed as Stock Investing for Dummies, but they sure get you excited about investing.

I should also mention that the author suggests that you probably won’t be able to start investing without at least $10,000. Back in 2005 I was buying stocks with just a few hundred dollars at ShareBuilder. I recently signed up for Zecco as well since they have free trades. These are just two of many places that investors can start with a lot less than $10,000.

So for this week’s giveaway, I will be giving away the audiobook version of Stock Investing for Dummies. If you want a shot to win it, just head over to the forums!