Starting an investment blog, need to self-educate
I am going to start an investment blog where I will discuss stocks. I am in the process of studying for the Series 65 exam and at some point I will have my 'company' licensed as an LLC. Obviously the purpose of this is mostly to impress potential employers. I am unsure if I will be able to write convincing 500 word posts on individual stocks, given my current knowledge level.
I was hoping you guys would be able to point me in the direction of where I could learn some fundamentals of how to research stocks and how to interpret fundamental data.
Thanks.
You're time would be better spent looking for/doing an internship.
And I'm sure he'd agree that YOUR time would be better spent on grammar. Seriously though, I do agree with you here but this may be in his spare time in addition to securing an internship? If so, what advice would you have?
read the intelligent investor
You are approaching this in a completely wrong way. Why should I care about your writing if you have 0 track-record and experience analyzing the markets?
It takes years of actual investing, discussing investing with others and reading about investing (Graham, Klarman, Lynch, etc.) to speak intelligently about investing. Your time would be better spent reading books suggested on this site (SEARCH function). If you try to start a blog within the next few months you will end up either paraphrasing investment ideas that you find elsewhere (i.e. copying seekingalpha.com) or sound like a complete moron to prospective employers and your peers.
Use the search function as this topic was covered recently. Choose a sector or industry that interests you, identify the key players, go to Edgar (sec.gov) and read recent filings (10-ks and 10-qs). This will get you familiar w the primary drivers and metrics within a particular industry. Between this site, Google and Investopedia you should be able to build a solid foundation.
so you actually think licensing an LLC then writing about things you know nothing about will impress employers?
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