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Investing Mastery: Stocks, ETFs, Crypto, BTC, REITs & Gold

Name: Investing Mastery: Stocks, ETFs, Crypto, BTC, REITs & Gold
Rating: 4.8 (272 reviews)

Stock Market Trading, ETFs, Cryptocurrencies, Technical Analysis, Stock Trading, Bonds, Real Estate, P2P, AI-Algos, Art

Created byArnold Oberleiter

Last updated 11/2025

English

What you'll learn

Understanding the risks and necessities of investing: Why not investing can be riskier than investing.
Basics for entering the stock market: Preparations, common mistakes, and realistic expectations. In-depth insight into the world of stocks, stock market, ETFs,
Understanding the role of central banks FED & ECB and their monetary policy and interest rates for the economy and the capital market.
Utilizing cycles, sectors, and seasonalities in the investment process, supported by AI algorithms. Introduction to technical analysis: From creating a TradingV
Portfolio theories and practical guidance for building your own portfolio, including insights into professional strategies.
Understanding investment calculation and metrics: From market capitalization to P/E ratio to advanced valuation methods.
Financial metrics such as EV/EBITDA multiple, P/E ratio (Price-to-Earnings ratio), P/B ratio (Price-to-Book ratio), P/S ratio (Price-to-Sales ratio), PEG ratio,
Understanding and applying the DCF (Discounted Cash Flow) model: Learn how to calculate the intrinsic value of a stock, including access to my DCF models.
Exploring Growth Investing: Methods for identifying growth markets and companies. Value Investing inspired by Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham: How to find un
Income Investing for passive income through dividends and evaluating dividend stocks. Exploring alternative investments: From real estate to P2P lending to unus
Step-by-step guide to creating a diversified portfolio, including cryptocurrencies, stocks, and ETFs.
Hedging strategies to protect your portfolio from a market downturn.
Basics of taxes on investments in stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies and how to avoid tax traps.
Recommended tools, websites, and AI applications for education and investment analysis.
Understand metrics like Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), LTV/CAC Ratio and more
Learn about the Fibonacci sequence and how to use Fibonacci retracements and extensions in trading

Course content

16 sections • 145 lectures • 27h 49m total length

Welcome & the risk note0:56
Course overview: What you will learn!10:36
My goal, a few Tipps and what you can expect from the course3:40
Discover why not investing is a long-term risk, how to protect wealth as central banks print money and the dollar declines, and master stocks, ETFs, crypto, and related investing techniques.
Understanding LTV/CAC: This is how a company can scale20:15
Investing is risky, but not investing is even riskier.6:17
Warning: Do not buy just because I have bought4:44
Important Links!1:02
Instructor Introduction: Arnold Oberleiter (Arnie)1:20
Meet Arnie, a multilingual entrepreneur sharing decades of experience in crypto, the stock market, and macroeconomics, plus ai automation for small businesses, in this investing mastery course.

What is this section about?1:02
What do you need to get started with Investing at the Stock Market?10:32
Finding the right broker for savings plans, stocks, and ETFs6:22
Choose the right u.s. brokerage for long-term stock and etf investing, comparing interactive brokers, fidelity, schwab, and robinhood while knowing what you own and why.
Finding the right crypto broker and creating an account9:58
Avoid these mistakes when it comes to your money in the stock market21:35
Compound Interest: Understand what you can expect from the stock market16:06
Recap and what is actually learning?3:18

What is this section all about1:37
What are stocks and IPOs, and why does a company go public?19:03
Why do stocks rise (profits, liquidity, sentiment) & what do investors expect?25:46
Learn how profits and future profits drive stock price rises, and how dividends, strategic stakes, sentiment, forecasts, acquisitions, and monetary policy shape investor outcomes.
Economic cycles, central bank liquidity, credit cycle, and stock market cycles33:36
What are ETFs, ETCs, funds, and indices?20:58
Explore how etfs track indices like the S&P 500, how physical vs synthetic etfs differ, and how funds and etcs fit into diversification and rebalancing strategies.
What are cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) "Sensible or gambling"?16:13
A little Recap!5:03
Understand how a company goes public through an IPO, raises capital with equity, and how central banks influence markets while investors seek growth and exposure to etfs, gold, and Bitcoin.

What this Section is about?1:11
Create an account on TradingView to analyze Stock and Crypto charts10:47
Chart patterns Basics: Line chart, bar chart, and candlestick chart15:56
The Dow Jones Theory and the uptrend16:34
The downtrend in individual stocks is dangerous12:56
The sideways trend and the stage analysis: The Full picture to Trends10:14
Learn to identify sideways trend and use stage analysis to time buys in accumulation and uptrend phases, avoid distribution and downtrends, and recognize breakouts and retes ts.
Different timeframes: Daily vs weekly9:50
Understanding support and resistance: Resistance becomes support and vice versa16:56
Learn how support and resistance define bitcoin price action, including breakouts turning resistance into support, old resistance becoming support, and how price levels reflect trader psychology.
Trendlines & channels in charts help for better investment decisions15:41
Chart patterns: Double top, head & shoulders, wedges, Wyckoff distribution &more18:40
Moving averages: 20, 50, 100, 200-day moving average19:09
Relative Strength Index (RSI): Bullish and bearish divergence14:15
Track the Fed net liquidity with this indicator13:04
Track the fed net liquidity as a leading indicator driving markets; liquidity shifts align with RSI signals on weekly charts and long-term trends.
Total Currency in circulation and M2 money supply can be helpful4:45
Volume helps identify if a trend is strong or if there's panic in the market9:28
Bullish candles: Find entries, continuations, reversals: Bullish Engulfing &more16:29
Discover bullish candlestick formations, including hammer, morning star, bullish engulfing, three white soldiers, above the stomach, and rising window patterns for entry points and potential trend continuations.
Bearish candles: Bearish Engulfing, Hammer, Doji Star, Below the Stomach & more9:52
Fibonacci sequence, Fibonacci retracement, and Fibonacci extension25:28
Chart analysis on Finviz: A website with a lot of practical information14:43
Setting up your TradingView account with a simple chart template6:00
Recap and please remember this!!4:02

What this Section is about?1:23
Explore portfolio theories, define a portfolio and asset allocation, review approaches like the 60/40 mix and insights from Dalio and Gerhard Coma, and cover personal finance and Monte Carlo simulation.
What is a Portfolio and Asset allocation? A strategy for investing!8:37
Define a portfolio and explain asset allocation as the strategy for splitting your money into assets such as stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, gold, and REITs.
Portfolios of the professionals: Ray Dalio All Seasons Portfolio & more18:23
Gerd Kommer with the World Portfolio: Everything you need to know11:27
Explain Gerd Kommer's world portfolio, a globally diversified passive strategy with a risk-free government bonds core and a stock, real estate, and commodities allocation, implemented with etfs.
Personal finance: How much can you invest and how to build a portfolio17:56
Master personal finances, set 9–15k cash for safety, then build a diversified 100k portfolio with MSCI all country world, growth stocks, bitcoin, and physical gold.
Investment horizon and risk are directly correlated13:30
How much money can you withdraw? Backtesting & Monte Carlo simulation22:46
Recap Time!3:16
Explore portfolio fundamentals, asset allocation, and strategy, including Ray Dalio and 60/40, balance risk with risk-free assets, personal finances, and learn through portfolio return simulations for long-term investing.

Stock price VS value of a company: Market capitalization & shares outstanding10:31
Explain how market cap and stock price are related but not the same, show how market cap divided by shares outstanding yields price, and illustrate stock splits and their impact.
The PE ratio (P/E): A metric you should know (but it's not perfect)18:07
The PE ratio in historical average and compared to competitors: A Example21:07
The Price-to-Book Ratio - (P/B Ratio)10:43
The Price-to-Sales Ratio (P/S)9:16
PEG Ratio: The first metric that considers multiple factors to value a stock.17:07
A better way to evaluate growth stocks: EBITDA and EBITDA multiples (EV/EBITDA)16:51
The downside of the EBITDA and EV/EBITDA multiple to value Stocks7:22
Explore the downsides of EBITDA and EV/EBITDA multiples for stock valuation. Learn how capex, taxes, depreciation and debt affect their usefulness, with gym and high-tech examples illustrating operating leverage.
Should you buy Tesla Stock based on future EV/EBITDA Multiples: A Example18:53
DCF model: Calculating the intrinsic value of a stock like Warren Buffet (Apple)36:49
Can you use the PE or Price to Free Cash Flow for Coca-Cola?3:26
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)12:21
The theory of efficient markets: True or false?12:36
Analyze the efficient market theory, noting it's not always efficient, and learn to buy assets with a clear path to three times value in coming years and hold through volatility.
Shares outstanding: More details on stock compensation and share buybacks4:10
15 Can Bitcoin also be valued using mathematics?10:37
Recap of investment math and valuing stocks based on numbers and Growth7:08
Learn investment math to value stocks by analyzing market cap, stock price, and shares outstanding, using pe ratio, price-to-book, price-to-sales, peg ratio, and discounted free cash flow.

What is this section about: Investing in growth Stocks and Strategies3:07
Overview: Growth, Value, and Income Investing [Three Different Strategies]18:58
Step 1 in Growth Investing: Find the right market16:00
Finding Growth Stocks/Companies: 3 Different Approaches25:30
Finding Growth ETFs on websites and screeners16:03
Arnie's Framework: A checklist that can make sense when investing39:39
Arnie's investing framework in action: Is LMND a stock to buy?32:36
Recap: What you learned in this section.6:41

Passive income through stocks and ETFs: What's it all about?2:13
The concept of income investing: Dividends!! but watch out for taxes!19:38
Finding dividend stocks and ETFs as a income Investor21:45
Find dividend stocks and dividend ETFs using free screeners like MarketBeat, with filters for 2%–8% yields, up to 70% payout, and at least five years of dividend growth.
Evaluating dividend stocks: PE ratio works, discounted free cash flow doesn't8:18
Recap of the Income Investing: Investing in Dividend Stocks & ETFs5:14
Explore income investing to generate passive income from dividends, weigh taxes and compounding, and decide between dividend stocks and exchange-traded funds with reinvestment.

Requirements

No prior knowledge required, everything will be shown to you step by step.

Description

Not investing is riskier than investing!! sounds strange, doesn't it?

Yet it is true because we live in a world where central banks expand the money supply, thereby creating inflation and eroding the purchasing power of our money.

Not investing is the 100% guaranteed way to lose money in the long term, and we don't want that!

Do you want to master the basics of investing, from the stock market to stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies?

Do you want to understand how central banks shape our economy and how you can use this knowledge to benefit from it?

Then this course is for you!

Welcome to the course "Mastering Investing: Stocks, ETFs, Crypto, REITs & Gold" - Finally learn to invest your money in the stock market!

In this course, you will embark on a comprehensive journey through the landscape of financial markets and learn how not investing can often be riskier than purposefully building a portfolio.

We cover everything - from the basics of entering the stock market to advanced investment strategies inspired by the greats like Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham.

Imagine being able to:

Understand the risks of not investing and why actively managing your wealth is essential.

Master the basics for successfully entering the world of stocks, ETFs, ETCs, and cryptocurrencies.

Develop a deep understanding of economic cycles, central bank policies, and their influence on your investment decisions.

Incorporate the support of AI algorithms, cycles, sectors, and seasonalities into your investment process.

Master technical analysis: From creating your TradingView account to understanding complex chart patterns and indicators.

Build your own diversified portfolio, guided by portfolio theories and insights into the strategies of investment professionals.

Learn the art of investment calculation and company valuation using financial metrics and DCF models.

This course offers you:

A wide range of knowledge, from the basics of investing to specialized strategies for growth and value investing.

Practical guidance for building a diversified portfolio, including stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and more.

A deep understanding of financial metric evaluation and how to discover undervalued stocks.

Insight into alternative investments and how to generate passive income through income investing.

Strategies for hedging your portfolio and basics for avoiding tax traps.

Access to recommended tools, websites, and AI applications for ongoing education and analysis of your investments.

Ideal for beginners, experienced investors, and anyone looking to expand their financial knowledge to make smarter, data-driven investment decisions.

These are the things you will learn in the course:

Understanding LTV/CAC for Company Scaling

Risks and Importance of Investing
Starting at the Stock Market: Requirements, Mistakes, Expectations
Selecting the Right Broker for Stocks, ETFs, and Savings Plans
Choosing a Crypto Broker and Creating an Account
Common Mistakes in Stock Market Investments
Understanding Compound Interest in the Stock Market
Basics of Stocks, IPOs, and Reasons for Going Public
Factors Influencing Stock Prices: Profits, Liquidity, Sentiment
Economic and Stock Market Cycles: Central Bank Liquidity and Credit Cycles
Understanding ETFs, ETCs, Funds, and Indices
Evaluating Cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin's Viability
Cyclical Investing Based on Economic and Credit Cycles
Impact of Seasonalities on Stock and ETF Returns
AI Algorithms for Investment Cycle and Sector Analysis
Tools and Basics of Technical Analysis: Websites, Charts, and Trends
Creating a TradingView Account for Chart Analysis
Understanding Chart Patterns: Line, Bar, Candlestick Charts
Dow Jones Theory: Understanding Uptrends
Risks of Downtrends in Individual Stocks
Comprehensive View of Trends: Sideways Trends and Stage Analysis
Daily vs Weekly Timeframes in Chart Analysis
Support and Resistance: Concept and Application
Trendlines and Channels in Chart Analysis
Key Chart Patterns: Double Top, Head & Shoulders, Wedges, Wyckoff Distribution
Moving Averages: 20, 50, 100, 200-Day Analysis
Relative Strength Index (RSI): Identifying Bullish and Bearish Divergence
Tracking Federal Reserve Net Liquidity
Understanding Currency Circulation and M2 Money Supply
Using Volume to Assess Market Trends and Panic Indicators
Identifying Bullish Candlestick Patterns
Recognizing Bearish Candlestick Patterns
Applying Fibonacci Sequence in Chart Analysis
Using Finviz for Practical Chart Analysis
Setting Up TradingView with a Chart Template
Portfolio Construction: Basics and Asset Allocation
Professional Portfolio Strategies: Ray Dalio, Gerd Kommer
Personal Finance: Investment Capacity and Portfolio Building
Investment Horizon and Risk Correlation
Determining Withdrawal Rates: Backtesting and Monte Carlo Simulation
Stock Valuation Metrics: Market Cap, Shares Outstanding
Understanding PE Ratio and its Limitations
Historical PE Ratio Analysis and Competitor Comparison
Price-to-Book (P/B) and Price-to-Sales (P/S) Ratios
Evaluating Growth Stocks with PEG Ratio
EBITDA and EV/EBITDA Multiples for Stock Valuation
Challenges of EBITDA and EV/EBITDA in Stock Evaluation
DCF Model for Intrinsic Stock Valuation
Applying PE and Free Cash Flow Ratios to Specific Stocks
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) Analysis
Efficient Market Theory Examination
Details on Stock Compensation and Share Buybacks
Valuing Bitcoin Using Mathematical Models
Growth Investing: Strategies and Market Identification
Finding Growth Stocks and ETFs: Various Approaches
Arnie's Framework for Growth Stock Evaluation
Value Investing Techniques: Screening and Portfolio Replication
Finding Value Stocks and ETFs
Determining Fair Value of Stocks and ETFs
Income Investing: Generating Cash Flow from Dividends
Evaluating Dividend Stocks and ETFs
Understanding Bonds and Their Functioning
Investing in Bonds: Finding and Buying
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Loans Investing
Real Estate Investment and Leverage
Alternative Investments: Art, Coins, Metals, Watches, Cars
Creating a Sample Portfolio with Stocks, ETFs, and Bitcoin
Practical Guide to Paper Trading and Real Trading on Kraken
Setting Up and Using Hardware Wallets for Cryptocurrencies
Time in Market and Dollar Cost Averaging Strategies
Tracking Portfolio Performance and Financial Management
Portfolio Rebalancing Considerations
Hedging Strategies: Diversification, Shorting, Options
Basic Tax Information for Stocks, ETFs, Commodities, and Crypto
Using Tools and AI for Investment Analysis and Productivity
Stock Screeners and Information Sources: Investopedia, Finviz
Company Financial Statements and Earnings Information
ETF and Cryptocurrency Information and Screeners
AI Assistance in Investment Analysis: ChatGPT, Chrome Extensions
Overview of AI Tools: StockGPT, Perplexity, Merlin AI, Traderfox AI, Finchat AI
and a lot more!

Seize the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of the dynamics of the capital market and strengthen your skills in the world of investing.

Sign up today for "Mastering Investing: Stocks, ETFs, Crypto, REITs & more" and begin your journey to financial wisdom and independence.

Who this course is for:

Anyone interested in achieving financial independence and learning how to make their money work for them through smart investment decisions.
Beginners without prior experience who want to learn how to strategically and effectively invest their money.
Working professionals who want to invest a portion of their income and generate additional income.
Self-employed individuals and entrepreneurs who want to diversify their savings and invest in various asset classes.
Individuals in the financial planning phase, such as future retirees, who want to build wealth to secure their standard of living.

Investing Mastery: Stocks, ETFs, Crypto, BTC, REITs & Gold

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Course content

Introduction8 lectures • 49min

Starting at the stock market What do you need, mistakes, and what to expect7 lectures • 1hr 9min

Basics: Stocks, Stock Market, ETFs, Cryptocurrency, Economics & Central Banks7 lectures • 2hr 2min

Utilizing cycles, sectors, and seasonalities + a AI algorithm that can assist5 lectures • 1hr 11min

Basics of technical analysis: Suitable tools, websites, charts, trends & more21 lectures • 4hr 26min

Portfolio theories and how to build a simple portfolio yourself8 lectures • 1hr 37min

Investment mathematics & metrics P/E, DCF, P/S, PB ratio, EBITDA multiple & more16 lectures • 3hr 37min

Growth Investing: Investing in growth stocks and an overview of 3 strategies8 lectures • 2hr 39min

Value Investing like Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham6 lectures • 54min

Income Investing: Generating cash flow from dividends [Passive income]5 lectures • 57min

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