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Investing: Your First Portfolio

Like Duolingo, but for Investing: Your First Portfolio. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

12 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Penny the Penguin
Investing: Your First Portfolio
with Penny the Penguin
12
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Investing: Your First Portfolio

  • Saving is holding cash that doesn't grow on its own
  • Compound growth needs time to snowball
  • Investing involves buying assets like stocks or real estate that produce profit or work for you
  • Starting early with small amounts outweighs starting late with large amounts
  • Productive assets generate value over time
  • The 'Cost of Waiting' is the lost growth that cannot be made up by higher contributions later
  • Distinguishing between saving cash and investing in productive assets
  • The mathematical advantage of time over principal amount
  • Index funds spread your money across hundreds of different businesses
  • Manual investing requires a new emotional decision every month
  • Diversification means the success of the whole group matters more than the failure of one member
  • Automation ensures you pay your future self before you have a chance to spend the cash
  • How index funds mitigate individual company risk
  • Price is a temporary number set by the market
  • Value is the long-term earning power of the asset
  • The role of automation in overcoming behavioral hurdles
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Investing: Your First Portfolio the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Putting Your Money to Work

What is the most important ingredient for helping your money 'snowball' through compound growth?

Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.

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Where Investing: Your First Portfolio takes you

Stop working for your money and make your money work for you. Learn how to build a simple, automated portfolio that grows over time without the stress of picking stocks.

  1. 1

    Building Your Engine

    • Your First Move
    • Designing a Balanced Portfolio
  2. 2

    The Long Game

    • The Magic of Compounding
    • Managing the Rollercoaster

2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Bestie

Investing: Your First Portfolio is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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