In this article you can read about Mindful Investing Insights. I will begin with a short introduction about who I am to then explain what you will find here at Mindful Investing Insights and why I started this investing platform in the first place.
My name is Imaël and it is my goal to educate people, ordinary people, who may feel investing in individual stocks isn't for them. You may have heard people say that the average investor can't beat the market, and it may well make you hesitant to start investing yourself. I have been where you are today, but never felt I could settle with this idea that investing wouldn't be for me. I studied other great investors, read many books on investing and found mentors and coaches to improve my knowledge, shift my mindset and build an investing framework that suits my financial goals and personality. Up to the point where I am today where I feel ready to pass on this knowledge onto you by showing you how I do what I do and why I do it the way I do.
most of my family and friends distrust the stock market or positively loathe it, as they all lived through the Great Financial Crisis. At worst, they see the market as a place for greedy people with a total disregard for the planet and the health of the people in their pursuit for accumulating ever more money. At best, they see it as a gambling place. "Don't get into the market, it's too risky, you'll lose your money."
I followed a career path that wasn't predestined for investing per se. I studied political science at university and became a civics teacher at high school after that. In the family I come from, money-making was never our strong suit nor something we liked to talk about - let alone be educated about.
one day, I must have been in high school still, my dad came home giving me a 100 guilders bank note. One of his patients had given it to him on the condition he'd give it to me and that I would use it to invest in the stock market. At the time, I had no idea on how to go about it but it marked the starting point of my investing journey.
contrary to what you might believe, investing is fun, exciting, and intellectually stimulating. And financially rewarding too, when done well. I'm here to show you how to.
you may have some prior investing experience but you may have regretted selling your shares for what seemed like a fine 50 or 100% gain or panic-sold when your stock took a 40% dive, only to see it 5-10x in the years after you sold your shares.
you are still interested in investing or else you wouldn't be here. But you want to find a way to harness yourself against making bad investment decisions again in future.
you know you can just buy an index tracker, making market returns while you're asleep. But you don't want to settle for that and believe there is a reliable way to beat the market over the long term.
you are aware of the tradeoff between long term outsized winners that will require you to sit out the high stock price volatility that inevitably comes with it on your path towards your financial goal.
you are willing to put in the work to adopt the right mindset that is required to change your behavior, are willing to get to understand the basics of reading financial statements and annual reports, and, most importantly, keep up with company news while you are invested. While it's not complicated and you certainly won't need a finance degree or a knack for numbers (though it certainly helps), it will require time and effort on your side and most importantly of all: emotional self-control.
With that said, and assuming you're still up for it, here are some articles to get you started: