Free Investment Library: Best Videos, Books and Podcasts

A free collection of outside learning resources in four formats: investing videos, finance podcasts, investing books and research websites. It gives you a trusted next step once you know the basics.

Browsing it is free, and the videos, podcasts and websites are free too. Books cost money, but you pay the bookshop, not StockEducation. Nothing listed is an affiliate promotion.

Each one is judged on four things: how much it teaches, how clear it is for self directed investors, how relevant it is to real research and decisions, and how trustworthy the source is. The library is deliberately selective rather than complete.

Start with the videos, which explain how the stock market works in minutes, then the beginner books. Add the research websites once you can analyze a company, and save the podcasts for later, since most assume you know the basics.

Many investors start with The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch and The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle. All three are in the library's book list.

Picks in the library include Planet Money from NPR, Odd Lots from Bloomberg, Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz and We Study Billionaires. Try a few episodes of one that matches your level before you commit.

Start with How The Stock Market Works In Under 8 Minutes, the Explained episode on the stock market and How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio. For deeper ideas, the library has talks by Warren Buffett and Howard Marks.

Pick the format that suits how you learn, focus on one topic at a time, then put it to work with the calculators, the $1M simulator and your own company research. Reading without doing feels productive but changes little.

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Yes. Email support@stockeducation.com with the resource and a line on how it helped you learn. Suggestions are checked against the same four tests as everything else.