From the “raw and frequently hilarious” ( The New York Times ) investment guru and New York Times bestselling author of The Wolf of Wall Street who inspired the Oscar-winning film of the same name, a witty and clear-eyed guide for anyone who wants to play the stock market to their advantage and learn the secrets of a top Wall Street investor. From Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Investing offers “concrete insights and advice” ( Booklist ) on when to buy, sell, hold, and cash out; how to make smarter (and safer) investments; and how to build significant wealth over both the short- and long-term. Unlike traditional investment books, each page of Jordan’s lessons, colorful stories, and principles entertains you with the charismatic swagger portrayed so famously on the screen by Leonardo DiCaprio. Belfort teaches you everything you need to know about savvy investing—even if whatever stock you’ve touched has turned to yesterday’s trash. As you read this guide, you will not only learn life’s most profitable lessons, but you’ll also laugh out loud at Belfort’s brazen honesty and salty wit. After being enraged by watching big banks steal money from individual investors and determined to right the wrongs of his own infamous past, Belfort now shows regular investors how we can use Wall Street to our advantage. Whether you’re new to investing or want to take your portfolio to the next level, you will learn everything Belfort knows about the stock market from The Wolf of Investing . "The author of The Wolf of Wall Street offers a blustery argument for evading the fast-buck parasites of the finance world in favor of long-term investment…. Belfort’s narrative delivers a good amount of valuable information [and] is well worth reading…. A useful handbook for those planning their financial futures.” ― Kirkus “Eager investors will receive concrete insights and advice for learning how to maximize returns, identify the best stocks…and develop a portfolio… Belfort focuses his deep understanding of Wall Street on developing individual investors to become independent and successful….[T]here is sure to be high demand for this book.” ― Booklist Jordan Belfort has acted as a consultant to more than fifty public companies and has been written about in virtually every major newspaper and magazine in the world, including The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Los Angeles Times , The Times (London), Forbes , and Rolling Stone . He is the author of the two internationally bestselling memoirs, The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street , which have been published in over forty countries and translated into eighteen languages. Chapter 1: The Story of Fernando and Gordita 1 THE STORY OF FERNANDO AND GORDITA INCREDIBLE! I thought. My brother-in-law, Fernando, has got the Midas touch… In reverse! Every investment he touches—every stock, every option, every coin, every token, every bloody NFT—every last one of them turns completely to shit! It was a little after 9 p.m., and I was sitting in the dining room of Fernando’s posh Buenos Aires apartment, going through his brokerage statements, when that sad realization came bubbling up into my brain. Simply put, his portfolio was a disaster . Through a series of bad trades and ill-timed investments, Fernando had lost 97 percent of his equity over the last two months, leaving his current account balance at a paltry $3,000. The rest of his money, just over $97,000, had simply vanished into the air, like a fart in the wind. Even worse, the losses had occurred during a time of relative peace and stability in the stock and cryptocurrency markets, which were the two main places where the investments had been made. The implications of this were undeniable and obvious: My brother-in-law had no one to blame but himself. After all, it would have been one thing if the markets Fernando had invested in had crashed or had at least gone down substantially right after he’d invested in them. That would have accounted for at least some of his losses. In fact, there’s an old adage popular on Wall Street about this very scenario: “A rising tide lifts all boats.” In other words, when the stock market is rising, the price of any stock within the market will tend to rise along with it, and when the stock market is falling , the price of any stock within the market will tend to fall along with it. Of course, the same holds true with every other market as well—the bond market, the commodities market, the cryptocurrency market, the real estate market, the art market, the insurance market, just to name a few. The bottom line is, when any particular market is heavily on the rise, you can basically throw a dart at it and expect to make money. No innate genius, keen sixth sense, or specialized training is required. The market does 99 percent of the work for you. It’s a simple premise, right? The only problem is that as s