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Day 1/10: Introduction
Congratulations on your decision to learn how to invest. You’ve taken the first step to empowering your financial future.
About This Course
Investing in the stock market is a proven strategy for building wealth and reaching your financial goals. This nine-part email course introduces the investing process, teaches you how to select stocks and identifies key considerations to building an effective portfolio. 

Over the next nine days, we will walk you through these topics: 
Foundational concepts: your goals, risk tolerance, risk vs. reward, asset allocation, investing life cycle and diversification 
Mindset and practicalities: the emotional side of investing and the basics of getting started
Stock-buying strategies: investing vs. trading, plus active and passive investing, dividends and capital gains, growth and value investing and small-cap and large-cap investing 
Valuation concepts and ratios: ratios you should understand to make money in the stock market
Five strategies to chart your own investing course: tactics to resist following the masses with your strategy
This guide assumes you are financially ready to begin investing. That means you have: 
Selected an online brokerage or investment account
Saved enough in a cash savings account to cover three months of your living expenses
Paid down your high-interest credit card debt
Balanced your household budget and allocated monthly funds for investing
If any of the above action items are still outstanding for you, this guide can help you prepare.

Tomorrow, we’ll get started with foundational investing concepts!
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