Intermediate: Stable vs Unstable Stocks

How to categorise a stock before you buy it: what makes something stable, what makes something volatile, the numbers that tell you which is which, and why a portion of your money should always sit in the boring half.

• What Makes a Stock Stable or Unstable Blue chips, dividend aristocrats, small caps and speculative names, and the traits that separate them.
• Beta: Reading the Volatility Number What beta measures, what it definitely does not measure, and where to find it.
• Fundamental Analysis: P/E, EPS, Growth and Debt The four numbers that tell you what a business actually earns and what you are paying for it.
• Technical Analysis: Candlesticks, Moving Averages and RSI Reading a chart honestly: what these tools show, and what they cannot tell you.
• ETFs, Index Funds and Sector Diversification Buying hundreds of companies in one order, and why one industry should never be your whole portfolio.
• Why You Always Keep a Stable Core Two students, the same starting money, one very different 2022. The maths of drawdown recovery.
• Case Study: GameStop vs Boring, and Your Research Toolkit GME in 2021 next to J&J and VOO over a decade, plus how to look all of this up yourself.
• Recap: Sorting Stocks by Risk The Intermediate track in one page, and why the next track puts real charts in front of you.