Introduction to
Stock Market Investing
Where do I start? Before you invest a single penny, this is a jargon free hour which shows you what you actually need to know.
With Martin Macleod. Chartered financial planner and stockbroker, twenty years inside the industry.
Save your seat
Tuesday 18th August, 12.30pm BST
Free, live, 60 minutes. Join live for the 10 Steps to Financial Fitness checklist.
I didn't think I was smart enough to invest and I also thought I was too old to start, but Martin showed me how wrong I was.
My wife and I made a decision to get our financial house in order as we were making good money. We wanted to make it go further but we didn't know where to start.
I wish I'd met Martin 10 years ago.
The agenda
In 60 minutes, you’ll discover:
Where you actually start
Step zero. What needs to be in place before you put a single pound near the stock market, and in what order.
What the stock market actually is
What you're really buying, why it goes up and down, and why the thing that frightens people is the thing nobody ever explained.
The Rule of 72
A piece of maths that's hundreds of years old, takes about ten seconds, and you'll use it for the rest of your life, and teach it to your kids.
What to avoid
Twenty years inside means I've watched people make the same handful of expensive mistakes over and over. You'll know what they are before you make them.
Join live to get the 10 Steps to Financial Fitness checklist.
Join liveThe real problem
You don’t start, because nobody tells you where to start.
Everybody tells you that you should be investing. Nobody tells you what to do first. You tell yourself you’ll sort it out later, and later doesn’t come.
Come along and learn about the greatest wealth creation machine in history that nobody taught you about. Not school, not your parents, and definitely not the banks.
The whole financial industry is built to sell you products and keep you in the dark. Simplicity doesn’t sell products. Confusion does.
So in this hour I’m going to teach you instead. What the stock market actually is, where to start, and the order to do things in. No jargon, no tips, no products, and nothing you need a maths degree to follow.
Who’s teaching this
Twenty years inside the industry. Then I walked.
I spent twenty years inside financial services (Barclays, AXA, Schroders) as a chartered financial planner and stockbroker.
I left because I’d had enough of an industry that sells rather than teaches. I’d always believed ordinary people could do this themselves if somebody would just explain it properly, and eventually I got fed up waiting for somebody else to do it.
- 350+
- people taught to invest
- 26,000
- readers on LinkedIn
Is this for you?
This hour is for you if…
- You've never bought a share and you're not entirely sure how you would
- You've got a nagging feeling you should be doing something about your finances
- You've read a bit, watched a bit, and come away more confused than when you started
- You think you might have left it too late, or that this is for other people: cleverer people, richer people
This isn’t for you if you’re already investing and picking your own stocks.
Live only
Join live for the 10 Steps to Financial Fitness checklist.
Everybody knows their ten thousand steps and roughly what their BMI is. Almost nobody knows their money numbers.
This is the checklist I use with clients: ten steps, in order, from where you are now to investing properly. Join live and it’s yours.
Common questions
Do I need money to start?
No. You need the foundations before you need funds. That's most of what this hour is about.
Is it too late for me?
The best time was twenty years ago. The second best is a structured start now. You'll see why in the maths.
I can't make it live, can I still register?
Yes. Registered attendees get a 48-hour replay window afterwards. The Q&A and the 10 Steps checklist are live only.
Is this actually free?
Yes. Costs you an hour.