While I didn't get
into individual stock investing until last year, I actually started out investing in mutual funds back when I was around 14 years old, kind of by accident.
I only briefly contributed to this when I first joined the military before stopping it (stupid as I missed out on a great bull market in 2012/13) to save up money to
begin individual stock investing.
Overtime, I found a metric to aggregate most of the quantitative and qualitative part of actively
managed individual stock investing that allow me to answer the above questions.
Individual stock investing is a craft that will require time to learn.
The most time consuming option is
individual stock investing.
Sure, index funds might be a better option than
individual stock investing, but who has ever gotten excited about index funds?
While I think it's great for a novice investor to read as much as they can, including following what other smart people do, I'm a firm believer that you should study the reasons, criteria and mistakes they make rather than
the individual stocks they invest in.
When it comes to
individual stock investing, my go to resource are my friends Victor and Rusmin over at Fifth Person have come up with their course Investment Quadrant 2.0.