I’ve been investing for a long time. Biggest key: open an account, add money, and buy something. You will rapidly learn what works, what doesn’t, what drives pr

I’ve been investing for a long time. Biggest key: open an account, add money, and buy something. You will rapidly learn what works, what doesn’t, what drives price etc. Reading financial statements is a good exercise and certainly important if you are investing at the institutional level, but you’ll find that price has a lot more to do with supply and demand of investors who want the stock than anything else. This supply and demand principle in economics is oft lost in investing principle books that try to teach theory of valuation, etc. Assuming you are into tech, since you’re here, you will find that tech stocks will barely reflect what an investing value book would teach. Possibly even teach valuations that are off by orders of magnitude due to the money being thrown at tech growth stocks. Price doesn’t equal valuation until you are trying to sell.