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The Psychology of Money—Why Your Brain Is Wired to Make Bad Investment Decisions
You could read every book on investing, understand every metric, and build a theoretically perfect portfolio—and still blow it up by making emotional decisions at the wrong moment. This isn't a knock on intelligence. It's a feature of human psychology that affects everyone, including professional fund managers with decades of experience and access to resources most of us will never have. The field of behavioral finance—the intersection of psychology and economics—has spent th
Kyle Shahian
8 min read


Crypto, Meme Stocks, and How to Think About Speculative Investments
At some point in almost every young investor's life, something exciting happens in markets. A cryptocurrency surges 400% in three months. A forgotten stock rockets because a Reddit thread decided to buy it. An AI company IPOs and doubles on day one. Your group chat is blowing up. People you know are making money—or at least saying they are. And you're sitting there wondering if you're missing something. This is one of the most important moments in an investor's development. N
Kyle Shahian
6 min read


How to Read a Stock: The Basics of Evaluating a Company
Index funds are the right starting point for most people, and for many investors they'll remain the core of a portfolio for life. But at some point you'll probably get curious about individual stocks—a company you use every day, an industry you follow closely, a business whose model you understand well. Curiosity is good. Acting on curiosity without any framework is where things go wrong. This article gives you the foundation to actually evaluate a company before buying its s
Kyle Shahian
7 min read


How to Build a Portfolio From Scratch
Most investing content tells you what to buy. Very little of it tells you how to actually build a coherent portfolio—how to structure your accounts, allocate across different types of investments, and create something that functions as a unified system rather than a collection of random decisions made at different times. This article is the blueprint. Whether you're starting with $500 or $5,000, the framework is the same. The amounts scale; the structure doesn't change. Step
Kyle Shahian
7 min read
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