The Intelligent Investor

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1. assemblymanNov 2025
   If one has time, a few books I would highly recommend:

   The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham

   Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd

   Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip Fisher

   The Little Book That Still Beats the Market by Greenblatt

   Warren Buffett's annual letters

   Actually, anything by Ben Graham or Joel Greenblatt is worth reading if one is interested in the investing world. I don't know if I'll ever invest enough time doing fundamental analysis and actively (value) investing but I am making my way through these just to understand value investing properly.

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2. assemblymanNov 2025
   Ah no, I meant these ones by Graham:

   https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-3rd-Ed/dp/006335...

   https://www.amazon.com/Security-Analysis-Seventh-Principles-...

   I'll paste a couple more readable ones too :)

   https://www.amazon.com/Concentrated-Investing-Strategies-Gre...

   https://www.amazon.com/Value-Investing-Graham-Buffett-Financ...

   Like I said to someone else above, I myself put almost all my savings in index funds and slowly read/study these just for curiosity. Eventually, I hope to actually spend some time looking at real data but even if I don't find any interesting stocks or lose my modest starter funds for this activity, I would be okay with it.

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3. rule2025Nov 2025
   A seasoned investor’s honest reflection: from losing tens of thousands to eventually making over 100,000 — and the one thing I finally did right.

   A few years ago, I couldn’t imagine my brokerage account showing six-figure assets. This isn’t a story of sudden wealth. No insider tips or “limit-up secrets.” It’s a story of losses, confusion, learning, and slow redemption.

   If you’ve ever doubted yourself after painful losses, maybe my experience will feel familiar.

   1. Entering the “casino”

   In 2016 I bought my first stock simply because it “had been rising.” A tiny gain quickly turned into losses. Panic → adding positions → cutting losses. I thought I just “lacked skills,” so I learned every indicator: MACD, RSI, candlesticks… The more I learned, the more confused I became. My trading still looked like gambling.

   2. Discovering value investing

   Right before quitting the market entirely, I stumbled upon “value investing.” That moment changed everything.

   I read the classics:

   The Intelligent Investor — stocks = businesses

   Security Analysis — intrinsic value matters

   Buffett’s letters — buy understandable companies with moats

   One Up On Wall Street — growth also matters

   The Most Important Thing — risk and second-level thinking

   These books rewired my thinking: I wasn’t investing; I was betting on noise.

   3. Building a real system

   I studied macroeconomics, business models, and financial statements. I shifted from watching daily candles to examining revenue, margins, cash flow, competitive advantages. Short-term prices are unpredictable; long-term fundamentals aren’t.

   4. The real test: U.S. market volatility

   When I applied value principles to U.S. stocks starting in 2019, my portfolio grew — until the real psychological test arrived.

   The pandemic crash, rate hikes, inflation spikes, tech sell-offs, rotation from growth to value… volatility in U.S. markets came in waves. Friends told me to “sell before it’s too late.” I was anxious too — but I had done deep research. I knew the businesses I held: their fundamentals hadn’t changed.

   So when fear peaked, I added to my positions instead of running. Markets eventually stabilized, and the recovery validated the analysis. My account went from deep red → break-even → steady profit → eventually passing +100k.

   This wasn’t luck. It was discipline meeting patience.

   5. A decade of learning distilled into a tool

   Value investing works — but it requires time: reading filings, analyzing statements, building valuation models. Most people simply can’t spend dozens of hours per company.

   After writing thousands of pages of notes, I wondered:

   Can I turn my entire investment workflow into a tool?

   A tool that:

   screens for quality companies

   auto-analyzes financial statements

   evaluates fundamentals & valuation

   removes 90% of repetitive work

   I’m a zero-code beginner, but with AI’s help, I spent half a year building it.

   The result: https://aistock.tools

   It’s not a trading cheat code. It doesn’t predict next week. It simply generates one-click stock analysis reports based on the value-investing methods I’ve refined for nearly a decade.

   Enter a ticker → get fundamentals, profitability, growth, valuation, risks — all structured and readable.

   I built it for myself first. Now I’m sharing it in case it helps others shortcut years of trial and error.

   If this tool becomes even a small accelerator on your investing journey, then the work was worth it.

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4. saguntumSep 2025
   For the OP, if you are looking for a classic on "value investing," Benjamin Graham's "The Intelligent Investor" will lay it out. I invest broad index rather than value, but it's a good read.
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5. AnimatsMay 2025
   "The Intelligent Investor", by Benjamin Graham. He was Buffett's mentor, and contributed to that book. It's straight value investing. Never buy a startup.

   There are biographies of Buffett. I read one of them years ago. It goes into great detail about the early deals that got him started. I never did quite understand the deal that moved him into the big leagues, the takeover of GEICO insurance.

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6. constantinumJun 2024
   - The Dream Machine, M. Mitchell Waldrop

   - Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

   - The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham

   - A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander

   - Tragedies, William Shakespeare

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