Free PDF download – beginners guide to investing in the stock market

In going through the Suggest a Topic comments I came across Chintak Dholakia‘s comment and it reminded me of a similar comment when the market began rising a few months ago.

Here is his comment:

Chintak Dholakia January 14, 2013 at 6:19 pm [edit]

Hey,

I have one request. Can you please guide as in how to start buying shares? What is the process? I am completely new to this field and i did’nt find any information about it. How to invest,what is the process, what are per-requisites i would require to buy shares. Take some example and explain, as in i have balance of say Rs.50000 to invest in shares, how should i go? how much should i invest in safe deposits, how much in share?

Kindly guide.

Thanks
Chintak Dholakia
Newbie,unguided Share market enthusiast!

REPLY

I’m sure a lot of people feel this way every time the market goes up, and I had written a series of blogposts about this earlier titled how should beginners approach investing in the stock market that addressed part of the question about stock market investing and buying shares. I was initially going to point Chintan to that series but then I thought it is a better idea to create a small eBook out of those posts, and keep adding content to it along the way.

I feel that this is a better way to deal with topics that are always of interest and gives a lot of opportunity to expand on the topic at a later date. I’m pasting the table of contents here for you to see if this will be of value to you, and if you do find use for it then I hope you forward it to friends and family who might be interested in it as well.

  • Three Stages of an Investor
  • The Implicit Assumption
  • What is the nature of a share?
  • How to execute based on this knowledge?
  • Instruments that help execute this
  • Parting words

As always, any feedback you may have is greatly appreciated, and you can download the book here:

How should beginners approach investing in the stock market?

63 thoughts on “Free PDF download – beginners guide to investing in the stock market”

  1. Please issue me shair market guide regarding buy and selling situation,shair status, starting procedure,etc.

  2. Dear Sir,
    Pls advice how I can be success in share market by investing small amount of money.

    Thansk,
    susanta

  3. Hi Manshu,

    i have the same comment for Mutual fund.
    I can understand share market investment verywell.

    but i found Mutual fund investment is complex to undestand.

    can u plz share some articles to understand how mutual fund works and how to invest.

    Rgds.

  4. Hi Manshu,

    I am a newbie in the stocks and shares world and scouting around for information to get a good hang of the basics. I stumbled on your blog and found it to be informative.

    Just out of curiosity, are there any recommended short term courses which one can pursue to understand technical analysis ? I don’t have a finance background and don’t want to learn by burning my hard earned money in the market. 🙂 .

    Regards,
    Smita

    1. Hi Smita,

      I’m not very fond of technical analysis, and have never tried my hand at it so I won’t be able to give you any recommendations about it. Have a good weekend!

      Manshu

      1. Hai Manshu
        I am interesting about share/stock market.I want full details for how to start and how to make invest etc., please give reply to me.
        Thank you.

  5. Oh my god manshu.. thanks a lot for this.. really thanks 🙂 I have requested such things in comments and generally it is being ignored. thanks for taking interest and helping me with this.

    1. It is a bit hard to do and I guess that’s why I haven’t responded to you earlier. If you have any questions then leave a comment here and I’ll respond.

  6. Hi Manshu,

    Since this is intended for newbies, maybe you could include ‘how a share price is calculated’ post to it as well – just a suggestion for your next version.

    Thanks.

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