Leveling Up Your Financial Literacy
224: Financial Markets & Business Resource Master List
A lot of people in life like to stick to the moniker “fake it until you make it” and that works to some extent — you need to be able to form confidence at a younger age through trials and failures and spit that out into real world poise, confidence, and initiative BUT there’s another part of it as well.
When I was in business school I won a stock pitch competition — it was the first time I was speaking publicly about stocks, valuations, and an investment idea and I was predictably anxious. The number one factor that helped me (and something we will expand on today) was being able to talk the talk. For weeks leading up to the pitch I was living inside a Bloomberg Terminal, reading every market update I could find, refreshing my knowledge on building out models, and listening to CNBC and other commentary every morning.
I was ingesting every single piece of media, content, and literature I could on the broader market and industry I was pitching for. This built awareness that I strengthened allowed me to have real confidence — because at a basic level there really wasn’t a topics or recent event that I couldn’t speak to in SOME capacity.
It paid off. It paid off for that competition. It paid off when I was interviewing for my first trading role, my first tech role, when I first chose to invest in crypto, and when I eventually moved to transform Arbitrage Andy from a meme page to a global Newsletter and E Commerce business.
Now at the age of 30 — I have continued to build out and compile my list of resources, influencers, books, and materials that I continue to leverage to this day to inform my opinions, education, and skills in finance, investing, and business building.
I owe a lot of my success to the content on this list.
Today’s Post is a Master Guide to becoming well read, proficient, and effective within financial markets, the financial industry, investment vehicles and in any self business ventures you’re working on.
I will cover everything from the best resources and materials for breaking into investment banking/sales/trading to becoming more versed in financial/capital markets all the way to the best tips, resources, and items you need to excel in your own business or company.
I don’t say it much — but today’s guide is one of the ones we put out in a year that should end up paying for itself 100x over.
The contents and tips in this guide today are worth well in excess of Arb Letter’s $5/month entry point and the resources compiled here are invaluable given they have the ability and capacity to get you that new job, that first job in finance, sales, or tech, a successful self owned business, or just a much more detailed education on finance and money itself.
Some continue to ask for free access to paid posts or handouts — not how things work. If you’re not willing to invest $5 to have the best condensed guide of financial content on the internet, I can’t help you. You get what you pay for. Being cheap ends up being expensive in the long run (IYKYK).
Each section today will come with an overview and then a comprehensive resource list for each topic including website, books, materials, and influencers to follow. We will cover:
Breaking Into Wall Street (traditional Finance Roles) + General Financial Education
Breaking Into Crypto (getting a crypto job) + General Crypto Understanding and Education
Starting Your Own Business ( Starting a business yourself) + Building One With A Full Time Job
I‘ve noticed that there isn’t really a central point online that puts all of these resources in one place for easy access and listing. On my journey in life so far — I have checked aspects of each of these areas — working a trading job early in my career, pivoting to tech/enterprise sales, investing successfully in crypto, and now running my own business.
This is meant to be one centralized guide with useful insights, tips, and materials to help anyone level up in one or all of these areas quickly, with the ability to reference one central guide.
I have condensed and synthesized the absolute best resources, materials, websites, influencers, and tips in one place for our 22,000 subscribers to access rather than list them individually and intermittently across free and premium posts.
If you make an effort to implement these resources and add the website/Twitter resources to your daily feed you will essentially have the same tech stack I use to inform my articles, education, posts, and worldview.
Best Resources For Breaking Into Wall Street/Traditional Finance Roles
Breaking into Wall Street is one of the hardest things you can do - especially nowadays with stringent pushes for diversity quotas, the usual nepotism, and fewer roles for more and more applicants - tech and the current market are weighing heavily on traditional finance roles.
