Financial Fluency Episode #19: Investing 101 with Sandy Chaikin

After the success of my Investing for Beginners podcast (you can find it here), I decided to call in the big guns.

Sandy Chaikin is Co-founder for Chaikin Analytics, a ground-breaking stock research and analysis platform.

With no prior experience, Sandy started investing in 2012 with Chaikin Analytics and built a killer portfolio that continues to outperform the S&P 500 and many money managers.

Sandy is living proof that you don’t have to be a financial expert to pick winning stocks.

Sandy’s experience in the crash of 2008/2009 left her disillusioned with her fund manager and discouraged with Wall Street.

Lacking the skills and tools she needed, Sandy was the inspiration for the training that Chaikin has now given to many other people. You can find out their method by listening in to the podcast.

We discussed the unbalanced role of women in the financial sphere, Sandy told me that figures show that around 70% of women widowed or divorced will move their money from an existing advisor because they just don’t feel “part of the conversation”. And you know how I feel about women empowering themselves through taking control of their money!

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Quotes

The only way you’re going to build confidence to invest, is to do it yourself. – Sandy

The important thing is just to get started – Sandy

The stock market is actually kind of fun…people want you to think it’s complex, but it’s not – Sandy

It’s really very similar to shopping. If you like that you’ll enjoy investing – Sandy

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Sandy Chaikin is Co-founder for Chaikin Analytics, a ground-breaking stock research and analysis platform.

With no prior experience, Sandy started investing in 2012 with Chaikin Analytics and built a killer portfolio that continues to outperform the S&P 500 and most money managers. She bought the two best-performing stocks of 2014, SWKS and LUV – both stocks rose over 125% that year.

Sandy continues to find winners like AMWD and ATVI, both of which rose over 94% in 2015. Sandy is living proof that you don’t have to be a financial expert to pick winning stocks. She presents webinars and speaks at industry events on fearless investing by following the Chaikin Five-Step Method.

Sandy is a contributor to Nasdaq.com where she also hosts webinars on investing, using examples from her own portfolio. You can find out more here.

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