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How to Make Money in Stocks—Getting Started is an important book for all
investors.
If you’re new to the stock market and unsure—perhaps nervous—about
how to begin investing, Matt’s book may be the missing link you’ve been
looking for. You’ll find a step-by-step game plan with checklists and routines
to make sure you start out right. More experienced investors can reference
these same strategies and tools to streamline their routines and further
improve their returns.
From the time I founded Investor’s Business Daily in 1984, we’ve
focused on education, knowing that anyone with a desire to learn can
become a successful investor. Since then, countless people from all walks of
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life have used IBD and the CAN SLIM Investment System to achieve sig-
nificant results.
I first met Matthew Galgani a decade ago when he came to us to help
market IBD to more investors. He also had a strong desire to master the
CAN SLIM System to build his own financial future. Matt began attending
dozens of IBD workshops around the country, then went on to help estab-
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lish and expand the IBD Meetup program in its early stages.
Since then, he has been involved in several pivotal educational products,
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including co-hosting IBD’s weekly radio show, editing the IBD extra
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Newsletter, and creating IBD TV videos. Matt also helped me develop the
IBD Meetup Investor Education Series, a 13-part course created specifically
for Meetup members. Each month, those interactive lessons are used by
local groups all over the nation and are one of the best ways we’ve found to
help investors establish a clear plan for making money in the market.
Getting Started is a natural complement to my earlier work, How to Make
Money in Stocks. Matt’s book helps you take those crucial first steps while
creating proper investing habits that help you build wealth over time. No
one becomes a successful investor overnight. Like all skills, investing takes
time and effort to learn. But anyone with patience and perseverance can do
it. The key is to follow a sound plan and never give up.

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