Book excerpt: The amount of time it takes to learn and become successful in the financial market trading business is different for everyone. From the very first day you get interested in investing and trading it can be a long road, it can also be verrrry expensive road should you start or continue to make some of the beginner mistakes detailed in this book. As a beginner this book can help you keep it simple and filter the huge amount of information out there down to only what you need to know right away and then can work towards adding more information and studies as you go. My philosophy is to start small and build on success have limited exposure while you hone your skills, then progress as you become more competent. There are a lot of pre-education and pre-trading decisions you will need to make before you spend any money on trading or capitalize an account to trade live with. This book delivers a basic comprehensive guide to the proper tools and resources needed to help give a beginner with no knowledge the best information to make some of those hardest decisions. This book does an excellent job in explaining the very first things a new investor and trader needs to know before they even do anything. It is meant to be a spring board for the very first educational information that someone brand new to trading needs for a baseline to get started from. If you need to learn the trading business from the ground up then this book is definitely a good starting point for you. I encourage you to read it as many times as it takes for it to become clear to you as to what you do and do not need to learn to be successful in this business from the start. There are no money back guarantees in the financial markets however you must know the right information from the start to have a chance of becoming consistently profitable and financially successful.