FREE MARKET VENTURES INVESTOR EDUCATION

This session covers the basics of how to determine the value of a company based on the teachings of Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Mohnish Pabrai.  With focus on understanding a business, its management, and its financial performance, this session will show you how to calculate a reasonable stock price you should be willing to pay.  Introduction to Business Valuation is the foundation on which the other investing and options sessions in the FML catalogue rest.

Learn how to read basic financial documents and use the information as a basis for value calculations.  Determine the price to pay for a company based on Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s “margin of safety” criteria. 

Mohnish Pabrai says to “clone shamelessly.”  This session shows you how to see what the best investors in the world - “gurus” - are buying and selling, and at what price.

Knowing how to evaluate a company’s financial health is crucial for making smart investment choices. This hands-on session will guide you through the process of analyzing key financial documents to determine whether a company is a good investment opportunity. By the end of this session, you’ll feel confident in your ability to evaluate the financial health of any company and make informed investment decisions.

This session takes a deeper dive into the myth of Efficient Market Hypothesis, why volatility is a poor indicator of long term risk, and how your broker has been taught the wrong way to make investment decisions.

Are stock buybacks a good thing, or a bad thing?  This session helps you understand when the company is making the right decision regarding buybacks.

This session explores the history of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), how it is used in the education of stock advisors,  and why it gives us an edge in investing.

This is an advanced session which digs deep into company research, how to find a company to buy, where to find information about it, its competitors, the industry it is in, and how to interpret the information.  A decision to buy a stock can take many hours of research, and this session guides you through that process.

Companies occasionally, though rarely, sell for the value of their tangible assets.  This session teaches you how to determine whether a company is more valuable dead, and therefore hiding significant value.

Intended for recent high school and college graduates, this session covers basic banking, insurance, budgeting, financing, and investing- basically, everything they don’t teach in school but everyone needs to know.

Learn the basics of call and put options, and why they exist.

Frustrated because your company’s stock seems to always be too expensive?  This course teaches a method to take advantage of put options to allow you to pay the price you want to pay for the stock, even when the stock price doesn’t drop to your price.

You will learn how to use put and call options to generate cash from your investments.