How to Not Lose Money in the Stock Market: Understanding Mainstream Investing with Joseph Hogue

Welcome back to Don’t Retire… Graduate! Today’s guest is Joseph Hogue, CFA®, the host of Let’s Talk Money! With Joseph Hogue, joining us to break down the art and science of investing and share his rules for making money in the stock market. 

Investing has become entertainment media and everyone wants to be slinging stocks, but Joseph shares his ideas about why very few people should really own individual stocks and why funds are better for the vast majority. Plus, hear his three rules to follow to not lose money when investing. 

In this episode we’ll talk about:

• What investing really is and how it can give everyone a taste of entrepreneurship 

• The reason people are scared or intimidated by investing 

• Human behavior and how we tend to make the wrong choices with our money

• Looking at stock market crashes as flash sales

• How to tell the difference between good financial advice and not-so good advice 

• Who should or should not own individual stocks and how to balance your portfolio for growth 

• The 3 rules to not lose money on stocks 

• When you should or should not sell your shares 

• Concentrated stock positions and overweighting your portfolio in one investment, including your own company 

• Income risk and financial risk in choosing your investments 

Visit dontretiregraduate.com for a full transcript of this episode.

About Joseph Hogue

Born and raised in Iowa, Joseph Hogue graduated from Iowa State University after serving in the Marine Corps. He worked in corporate finance and real estate before starting a career in investment analysis. He has appeared on Bloomberg and CNBC and led a team of equity analysts for a venture capital research firm. He holds a master’s degree in business and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. 

Joseph left the corporate world in 2014 to build his online businesses, first through creating websites and later through his YouTube channel, Let's Talk Money. He's since grown the community to over 550,000 and reaches more than 1.8 million people a month through the blogs, YouTube and a weekly market newsletter. 

https://www.youtube.com/c/LetsTalkMoneywithJosephHogueCFA

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