I’m reading a new book about beginner investor strategy, and how to start investing: The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read: The Simple, Stress-Free Way to Reach Your Investment Goals
. So far I like the tone and tiblre of the book - basically it’s saying that trying to time the markets or beat the markets by picking stocks is a fool’s game and a waste of money. It goes on to point out something that I knew before I even started learning about investing - people you pay to manage your stock portfolio do not have your best interests at heart. Now, before I get angry emails (or tweets - I’m on twitter too as the LateInvestor - are you? Add me if you’re into investing - I won’t auto-follow/auto-dm auto-reply or spam you with links to e-books - I am a real person, not a marketroid) from money manager’s, please know that it’s nothing personal. Just a fact of life that if you get paid to make trades for people and try and beat the market, then you will make lots of trades in hopes of beating the market. I suppose if it pans out, you could make some cash - but the law of averages would say the odds of that happening are pretty low, I suspect. I just assumed everyone would be as naturally conservative and suspicious as I am - I want to get hands on with my investment portfolio, right from the beginning, not just offshore it to some guy with 1 thousand other small time investors he lumps together and moves around like monopoly pieces.
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Investing Online for Dummies - This is where I chose to start
Day 1 I’m starting out with NO prior knowledge of investing, and almost no financial knowledge at all. As I said, I started my research at the library:
The book I’m going to start with is ‘Investing Online For Dummies’ 
. I’ve never been a big fan of the ‘for Dummies’ line for learning computer programming, but I figured that since my ‘cup is empty’, something so popular geared toward a rank amateur such as myself would at least give me the basics to build on.
I can say I’ve already learned a couple little things about beginning investing, and 1 big thing for the beginner investor from it. It’s not a terrible read, it’s a little dry, which is to be expected, but more importantly is the big thing about beginner investing that I learned right off the bat. There are 2 kinds of investors - which type of investor you are will determine how much money you make. That’s about the simplest I can put it. Red the rest of this post to find out which type of investor I am, and which kind you are. This is dead simple and this basic beginner investor step could seriously determine your investing for the rest of your life.
Hi, my name is Jeff. I am a 36 year old software developer living in Las Vegas NV. I am married, with 2 children. I know nothing about investing money. 
