How to Make Money While You Sleep (Beginner Guide to Investment)

By Artenie Alexandru

Interested in creating a passive income with investing but have no clue where to start?

Too much contradictive information leaves you confused about what to do next?

What if I told you that you could make money while you sleep if you follow the proven investment strategies?

It took me 3 years to go through dozens of investment guides and books to create an investment strategy that helps me make three figures in passive income monthly.

Now, I want to teach you how to build passive income with investment!

As an investor, I created an easy-to-follow 82-page guide that will help you understand investment principles and choose the most suitable investing tools for you.

The strategies I discuss in the book can be applied in the USA and worldwide!

You won’t find complex formulas, dry theories, and terms in this guide. You don’t want to waste your time going into this.

This guide will help you:

Understand how the stock market works

Learn how to analyze stocks before purchasing them

Learn when is the best time to buy stocks

Get the Investor Checklist I use to improve my portfolio and select trustworthy stocks

Learn about good and bad investment diversification strategies

Find a curated list of paid and free tools that will help you make better investment decisions

And

Create your first investment strategy!

Ready to become a better investor?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Artenie Alexandru
• Release date: May 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005746209

Artenie Alexandru

How did I start?It all started in 2019, when I discovered the Etoro trading platform and decided to get my chances in investing. The great advantage of the platform was the $100,000 virtual portfolio which allowed me to make some experiments before loading real money.I didn’t go well, but I learned some important lessons without losing anything. I recommend any new investor to do the same, try it as a game first.After about 6 months, I decided to put it the first $200 and use them for copy trading, by allocating them to a Popular Investor. It went quite good, but shortly, I felt call to add more funds and play by myself.The first months went not bad at all, and I applied for the Popular Investor program by myself. It went even better and my copiers were growing and growing. But it wasn’t to last long, as the Covid crisis came and I had a painful red month of March when many of the copiers left.It was followed by a small depression, but after that I started to build my portfolio again, using various strategies, and I finished the year 2020 with about +42% performance. Meanwhile, I of course added new funds from time to time, as the Popular Investor program also increased the demands of own equity.It was far from being a passive incomeAll this time, including the year 2021 up to date, I was researching and studying various strategies and approaches. I got my premium subscription on SeekingAlpha and Investing.com and read many useful articles there. I’ve also read a couple of books on accounting and investing, such as Big Short, 50 Economics Classics, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, The 3% Signal, Learn to Earn and others.I found that readings extremely useful. Many times there are contradictory opinions, but this is even better, because this allows you to see many sides of the thing, and draw your own conclusion.Technical Analysis was not lacking, of course. I spend many precious hours by experimenting and analyzing stocks and portfolios on Tradingview and Portfoliovisualizer.This is what I advise you also to do. Invest in yourself first by reading and studying. Knowledge is for sure your most valuable asset.And this what I would like to help you withI started my website and my Youtube channel to provide some educational material and share some insights by creating stock analysis based on fundamental and technical analysis.Meanwhile, you are invited to also follow my personal investment journey. My Etoro Popular Investor account is Artenie and the non-PI account is Alex_Invest1992.If you visit my profile, you will see that I am by far not the best PI, but also by far not the worst.So, what will you find on my website?Most of the useful posts are on the blog of course. The blog is divided in many sections, as it is also the investment world. You will find separated categories for Value Stocks, Growth Stocks, Dividend Stocks and Technical Analysis, but also a dedicated category for Educational Material. Feel free to also visit my Youtube channel.I am not searching and neither does this site provide get rich quick schemes or focuses on just on how to make money online. It will most probably not include any Crypto analysis or related articles as well.On the other hand it is neither focused on long term strategies only, so it doesn’t just provides hints on how to retire rich.It is simply, investing from passion. Best strategy is a combined strategy, so to say: “the golden middle”.Why am I investing?Of course there is the beautiful dream about 6 or 7 digits in your account, but this is not the scope. The intension is to create a source of passive income, which would allow me to work only for a limited amount of time on the job I love and dedicate most of my time to my family, performing other passions of mine, such as traveling, learning foreign languages, and many other ideas which might come once I reach the financial freedom.Who writes all this stuff?I write a lot of the content by myself, of course. But this is not sufficient for sustaining a real blog. This is why I am searching for other passionate people who want to express them by writing stock analyses for a particular category. That helps to diversify and enrich the content provided to you.If you would like to become a collaborator, feel free to write me. If not, I encourage you to simply subscribe and enjoy the existing and the upcoming content.

Book preview

Table of contents

Introduction

Disclaimer

What’s with ART Invest

What will you find in this book?

3-W of investment: Why Where When

Why to invest

Where to invest

Stock Market

Certificates of Deposit

Bonds

Real Estate

Cryptocurrencies

When to invest

The Age Problem - When should you start investing?

Comprehending Market Situations

Sales on Stocks

Based on Analysis and Reports

When Undervalued

Returns and Timings

Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA)

Final Words

Accessing the market

eToro

Fidelity Investments

TD Ameritrade

Charles Schwab

Asset classes

Equities

Who are Equities for?

Who should stay away from Equities?

Commodities

Who are commodities for?

Who should stay away from commodities?

Cryptocurrencies

Who are Cryptocurrencies for?

Who Should Stay Away from Cryptocurrencies?

Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF)

Who are ETFs for?

Who should stay away from ETFs?

Index Funds

Making Money

Buy and Hold

Capital Appreciation

Dividends

Gain Amplifiers

Using Leverage

Margin Loan

Futures & Options

Shorting a Stock

Selling Short vs Closing a position - Important tip for beginners

Picking the stock: Fundamental Analysis

Qualitative Analysis

Quantitative Analysis

Relative Valuation Methods

Absolute Valuation Methods

Dividend Discount Model

Discounted Free Cash Flow

Picking the time: Technical Analysis

So first of all, what is Technical Analysis?

Type of charts

One candle pattern

Groups of candles

Support and Resistance Levels

Going with the Trend

Volume Indicator

Moving Averages

Moving Average Crossovers

MACD, Moving Average Convergence Divergence

RSI - Relative Strength Index

Bollinger Bands

Investor’s Checklist

General Checklist

Value Investor’s Checklist

Growth Investor’s Checklist

Safe Investment checklist

Investing in Tesla

General Checklist

Value Investor’s Checklist

Growth Investor’s Checklist

Safe Investment checklist

Conclusion

Diversification – the free lunch in finance

What is Diversification and why should you diversify

Types of Diversification

Diversification across sectors

Examples of Diversification

Bad Diversification Example - Mastercard and VISA

Good Diversification Example - Mastercard and Enviva

Diversification across asset classes

Your first strategy

Passive Investing

Index Investing

Passive Dividend Investing

Strategic Asset Allocation and Modern Portfolio Theory

Final Word

Annex

Websites for wise investors

Tools for sophisticated investors

Introduction

Everyone dreams of living a financially secure life. Unfortunately, that goal is at odds with the world we live in. Even if you start working right after college, or even before it, by the time you reach your late 30s, there's a good chance your net worth will be negative. If not negative, chances are it won't be very high either.

Most people believe financial security means saving as much as possible. In reality, that's not entirely true. Financial security is a combination of saving and investing.

If you just save, there's a good chance you will have to work till your last day. But when you invest, your money grows by itself! And when you add regular investments to your savings, you can take control of your life and plan it.

In this book, I am going to walk you pragmatically through the basic aspects. After reading it, you will be familiar with the most used concepts, and you will have the first strategy.

Disclaimer

Nothing presented in this book shall be treated as investment advice.

All the content and stock analysis shall be considered for informational purposes only.

Make sure the perform your own research before you invest your money and understand that your capital is at risk.

What’s with ART Invest

Simply and shortly, that’s by branding name. www.art-invest.net is my website where you can find plenty of educational articles as well as stock analysis and insights. Although I do not mention it anymore throughout the book, you will see some of the pictures with the watermark showing my logo.

What will you find in this book?

Ever wanted to start investing but wondered where to start from? Or maybe you are already an investor but feel the need to educate yourself on the subject?

In this book, you will get enough information to understand the principles of investing which will help you to make your first steps in the journey. It is not going to be overwhelming with complicated theories and academic content. The aim is to help beginner investors to get a feeling of what they are doing.

You will learn about technical and fundamental analysis, understand how the stock market works and have the first strategy. Every chapter is accompanied by illustrative charts, that will help you assimilate the material.

The more advanced content will follow in the upcoming books.

At the end of the book, you will find an Annex with tools and websites, both free and paid, that will help you to become a better investor.

Enjoy reading!

3-W of investment Why Where When

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." — Warren Buffett

Why to invest

B y the definition, investing is the act of allocating resources, usually money, to generate an income or profit.

Although it might be obvious why you should invest, let’s examine this as a form of financial wisdom, because of several factors:

First of all, investing allows you to minimize the impact or overcome inflation. If you simply keep your money in your pocket or the bank account it loses its effective value with time. That means, as time passes, you can buy less and less with the same amount of dollars.

Here is a nice picture from investopedia.com illustrating the effect of inflation on a