Chapter One

It's Not Brain Surgery

When you buy a car, you kick the tires. When you buy a house, you look in every nook and cranny. You need do to the same thing with your investments. And there's no reason why you can't.

Learning how the market works isn't brain surgery. I'm living proof of that. I'm hardly a mathematics whiz. In fact, a couple years ago, I ran into my high school math teacher and she said, “I can't believe you cover finance.” I never took any classes in Wall Street 101, either. I learned it from the ground up. Okay, I studied economics in college, where I learned about the relationship between supply and demand and the difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics. Big deal. You don't learn how markets move in school. You learn that by following the markets and watching trends. In my case I learned it on the job.

So how did I end up with this job?

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