Duration of the online course: 3 hours and 29 minutes
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If you want to invest with more confidence and less noise, this free online course helps you build a clear, disciplined way of thinking about markets. Instead of chasing tips or trying to predict the next headline, you will learn how long-term investors evaluate a company, what gives an asset real value, and why price and value are not the same thing. The goal is practical: strengthen your decision-making so you can spot solid opportunities and avoid paying too much for uncertain returns.
You will start by understanding value investing and the mindset behind buying a piece of a business rather than a ticker symbol. From there, you will connect key financial ideas that many beginners skip: what net income actually represents, how to interpret a balance sheet, and how the concept of margin of safety can protect you when reality does not match forecasts. By learning to frame investments through fundamentals, you will be better equipped to judge whether a company looks durable, understandable, and reasonably priced.
The course also demystifies essential stock terminology and the role you play as an investor when you follow a rules-based approach. You will practice reading common measures such as earnings per share and clarify how investors think about ownership, profits, and business quality. You will then broaden the perspective with bonds, learning what they are, how coupons work, and how yield is evaluated, including the practical limitations of simplified calculations. These concepts help you compare alternatives, understand risk, and avoid being surprised by interest-rate moves.
Finally, you will place investing inside the larger financial system. You will examine how stock markets behave during bubbles and crashes, how long-run value tends to assert itself, and why central bank actions matter. With a structured set of explanations and short exercises, you will leave with a stronger foundation for analyzing assets, staying patient, and making choices that match long-term goals.
Video class: 1. What is Value Investing?
11m
Exercise: What is an asset?
Video class: 2. Value a Small Business like Warren Buffett
14m
Exercise: What is the meaning of the term NET INCOME?
Video class: 3. What is a Balance Sheet and Margin of Safety
14m
Exercise: TRUE or FALSE: - The earnings are the worth of the individual shares of a company - You can use the Balance Sheet to determine the margin of safety of a company - Net income is not important - It is absolutely futile to know the Balance Sheet, the Cash flow Statement and the Income Statement of a company
Video class: 4. What is a Share
18m
Exercise: What is your job as an investor that follows Warren Buffet’s technique?
Video class: 4 (PE). Finding Basic Stock Terms
11m
Exercise: What is the EPS for Johnson and Johnson according to the provided transcript?
Video class: 5. Warren Buffett Stock Basics
19m
Exercise: What are Warren Buffet’s only 4 rules for investing?
Video class: 6. What is a Bond
18m
Exercise: What is a Bond and is it important at all for investing like Warren B.?
Video class: 7. What are the components of a bond
10m
Exercise: Choose the alternative that correctly describes the concept of a Coupon
Video class: 8. Value a Bond and Calculate Yield to Maturity (YTM)
16m
Exercise: What is a key limitation of the current yield calculation for bonds?
Video class: 9. What is the Stock Market
15m
Exercise: What is Benjamin Graham’s relationship to Warren Buffet?
Video class: 10. Stock Market Crash and Market Bubbles
13m
Exercise: Which of the following is the approach to the Stock Market that is better able to determine the price of the market in the long run?
Video class: 11. What is the FED
13m
Exercise: Select the alternative that is incorrect about the FED and its role on the financial market
Video class: How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio
31m
Exercise: What drives economic growth in the short term according to the economic machine model?
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Course comments: Investing like Warren Buffett
Students found the free course helpful, easy to understand, and packed with useful value-investing insights. Lessons are short and digestible, inspiring learners and prompting recommendations to others, though feedback was mixed in a few comments.
muktari mohammed shitu
investing a small business like Warren buffet
muktari mohammed shitu
investing a small business like Warren buffet
muktari mohammed shitu
what is value investing
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Sherrie Galdeira
Preston makes it very easy to understand this course. He limits course lessons into digestible short versions which helps me to comprehend lessons.
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I would recommend this course to everyone who would love to know more about investing
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