This book is designed to reduce mistakes. Your mistakes with money. Small oversights, epic failures, and everything in between. You can do thousands of things right, but if you make just a few of the mistakes we discuss, you are destroying a large part of your portfolio.

If you could learn how to avoid the unintentional mistakes that investors make all the time, you would make your life much richer and less stressful. The contradictory truth is that avoiding mistakes is much more important than succeeding.

How Not To Invest shows some simple tools and models that will help you avoid the most common mistakes people make with their money. Learn them and you’ll be ahead of 98% of your peers. Make fewer mistakes, end up with more money.

We all make mistakes. The goal of this book is to help you make fewer of them and to make the mistakes you do make less costly.