Grandma Sylvia's Guide to the Stock Market
Win the Great Game and Sleep Well at Night
by Sylvia Auton
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Pub Date 19 May 2023 | Archive Date 20 Aug 2023
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Description
Do you feel emotional and fearful at the prospect of investing? Grandma Sylvia, a woman with no formal financial background, offers an easy-to-read, friendly, and non-technical set of stories about how to invest simply. Hers is the voice of an ordinary woman, rarely heard in the investment arena. She learned from the best in the field and provides examples of the emotional confidence that women (or men) can gain as they begin their investment journeys, eventually losing fear and gaining knowledge to become successful investors who sleep well at night.
Beyond investing, the book includes fun information about the current stock market, its history, and some of the confusing language heard on “the street.” It also includes highlights from research studies on the importance of women as investors, such as a Fidelity study that found over 92% of women want to learn more about financial planning, and that over 60% of women worry about not having enough money to last them through retirement. Despite these statistics, many women lack the confidence and knowledge needed to take control of their own financial destiny. This book follows Grandma Sylvia’s journey as she transforms from a fearful investor into a confident one who now wants to help others find joy in investing.
Advance Praise
This book, and the companion videos, offer a warm, friendly and accessible introduction to investing. Sylvia Auton's approach to this material is valuable to anyone interested in the basics of investing, and especially those with little experience in this area.
Dr. Daniel Houser, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
I do believe in the importance of this book. Sylvia Auton’s personal experiences in investing and her journey in overcoming the fear of investing as a woman in a male-dominated field would be inspiring to so many women. Her story-telling style makes the book enjoyable and easy to read. The book— written by a woman and for women— would go a long way in empowering women.
Dr Jia Liu, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Sheffield Hallam University.
You have accomplished a beautiful story which deserves to be printed.
Taylor Larimore, author Bogleheads several books
YouTube Video
I loved reading every word of your you-tube link. You are a very likeable and gifted story-teller. Taylor Larimore (author and leader in the Bogleheads Forum)
Loved it! Terrific for your intended audience. Really. Al Smuzynski, GMU OLLI Forum Moderator
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9798986361215 |
| PRICE | US$9.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 297 |
Links
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 240007
This would be a good basics book for someone who wants to learn about the stock market. It's good at gaining an understanding and help giving someone a jump start.
Reviewer 679352
Very informative, and easy to read. I would recommend it to everyone looking to start investing.
Thank you for the advance copy!
Terri W, Reviewer
Lots of good advice here, both for first time investors and those who have been investing haphazardly. She shares study materials that helped her, explains how and why she diversifies her portfolio. The final chapters touched on market history and giants of the market that I glossed over.
The subtitle is Win the Great Game and Sleep Well at Night, and Sylvia Auton frequently mentions that she does indeed sleep well at night. Follow her advice.
beatrice v, Reviewer
Auton has written a very realistic guide. Not only does she recount her experiences and opinions on her journey of learning about investing in the stock market, she also includes those of others that she became aware of. As she expresses in the authors note she is writing from her own personal experience. Auton was a mature woman of 65 years, when she decided to dip her feet into stock market investing. Her journey is a remarkable and encouraging one. She had not even contemplated such an adventure before. So why does Auton take up investing? Well, I urge you to read the book and discover this for yourself. It’s interesting that she takes the trouble to calculate how much better off she would have been had she started investing in stocks when she was younger. Doubtless she urges us to seriously consider investing for the future.
Auton makes no claims at being a financial advisor. She is adamant in insisting that she is an ordinary woman like any of us, who mastered this art. This immediately aroused my interest. Could it be that easy to invest? I had assumed that investors lost sleep or at the very least were stressed out. Besides one heard how one could lose money with investing. Isn’t that what the small print said on investing ads. She stresses that she did not take it lightly. Auton researched her market well and she urges us to do likewise. Reading the book blurb aroused my curiosity – How could I possibly invest and sleep well at night. Having read the book, I am assured that this is possible by following Autons methodology. I’m using this word lightly here as Auton herself does not have a secret formula as such. What she advices is perhaps what a judicious person would do. I’m however not going to reveal her advice as it would be a spoiler. Moreover, I could not reveal it in a few lines.
Though simply written without financial jargon she has covered every aspect in detail. She describes her initial journey, the whys and wherefores of having to embark on this adventure and gives the reader a game plan that one could customise for oneself. This is not a complicated procedure rather a simple yet effective plan to decide where one begins and the path one would want to travel on this adventure.
Auton also explores so many other aspects that one might encounter on this journey with her personal experiences, opinions and also other folk’s opinions. What particularly struck me was the extent she has gone to simplify even the most complicated stuff. There is only one drawback for me as I see it. She is largely writing about the US market. I however am in the UK. This does make a difference. I believe I would have to research my own market more diligently. However, her experiences and advice can certainly be applied here with perhaps a bit more due diligence.
An easy read this book is a keeper long after it is finished and would be greatly encouraging to one and all. I believe it is simply marvellous to be able to read about investing without being bogged down with financial jargon. In telling her story Auton actually proves that investing in the stock market is a doable for us ordinary folk who like her at the start haven’t a clue where or how to begin and are overwhelmed by the mere thought of investing. This book could go a long way in solving those issues.
