How to Invest in Stocks by a Pro Who Managed > 1 Billion (Udemy.com)
By Award Winning MBA Prof with 1.5 Million Students, who worked at Goldman and The Top Hedge Funds in the World
Created by: Chris Haroun
Last updated May 2025
What you will learn
- Learn how to invest in stocks from scratch (no prior finance, accounting, business or investing knowledge is required)
- Learn Fundamental Stock Investment Research Tips
- Learn Valuation Based Stock Investment Research Tips
- Learn Technical Analysis Stock Investment Research Tips
How it compares
Against the other 278 rated Udemy courses in Trading & Investing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 46% of them
- Reviews1,295#67 of 279 by number of reviews
- Length1.2 hoursshorter than 92% of them
- Last updatedMay 2025earlier than 59% of them
Course Description
This course is taught by Chris Haroun who has made a fortune over several decades investing in stocks while he worked at Goldman and at the top hedge funds in the world (including his own). He has managed more than $1 billion of stocks and he teaches the 25 best investment tips he has learned in his career in this course.
Topics Covered:
Section 1 of 3: Fundamental Investment Research Tips
Tip #1: Only Invest in What You Understand & Be Long-Term Focused
Tip #2: The Jockey Is More Important Than the Horse
Tip #3: Understand If a Stock Is a Growth or a Value Investment
Tip #4: Analyze Organic Growth
Tip #5: Understand Investment Catalysts
Tip #6: Buy Broken Stocks but Not Broken Companies
Tip #7: Never Invest in a Company in a Small Market
Tip #8: Be Unemotional About Stocks
Tip #9: How to Research the Risks
Tip #10: Listen to All Quarterly Earnings Calls
Tip #11: Only Invest in Liquid Stocks
Tip #12: Understand the Barriers to Entry for a Stock
Tip #13: Invest in Companies That Never Have Inventory Problems
Tip #14: Always Do Your Own Research on Stocks and Never Let Anyone Including Me Tell You What to Buy
Quiz on Fundamental Investment Stock Research
Section 2 of 3: Valuation Investment Research Tips
Tip #15: Never Value a Company Based on This Year’s Price to Earnings Multiple
Tip #16: How to Value Companies with No Earnings
Tip #17: Build Your Financial Model & Value Companies Based On 3 Valuation Methodologies
Tip #18: Understand the One Driver That Makes Revenue Go Up or Go Down
Tip #19: Don’t Invest in Companies Where You Only See 10% or 15% Upside
Tip #20: The Easy Way to Download Financial Statements
Quiz on Valuation Based Investment Stock Research
Section 3 of 3: Technical Analysis Investment Research Tips
Tip #21: Understanding the Relative Strength Index (RSI)
Tip #22: Understanding Moving Averages
Tip #23: Understanding Support and Resistance Levels
Tip #24: Understanding the Short Interest Ratio
Quiz on Technical Analysis Investment Stock Research
The Final Tip (The Crescendo of My "F.V.T." Methodology)
Tip #25: Your Investment Research Writeup Process (Download My Template)
Thanks and I will see you in class!
Chris Haroun
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
1,295 Reviews
Chris Haroun
Award Winning Professor Featured in Forbes, NBC, Business Insider, CNN & Entrepreneur
Please join me for my weekly Office Hours Q&A on my YouTube channel every Thursday from 8am until 10am Pacific time. Here is my bio thanks:
Chris Haroun is the founder & CEO of the 300+ hour online Haroun MBA Degree Program®, an award winning business school professor, MBA graduate from Columbia University & former Goldman Sachs employee. He has raised/managed over $1bn in his career.
He also has work experience at hedge fund giant Citadel, consulting firm Accenture & several firms that he has started, including an investment firm that had a venture capital investment in Facebook several years before the Facebook IPO.
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Reviews
By Jeff Hamilton on 12/29/2025
This short course contained a lot of great advice and tips to get started in learning how to invest. The advice given at the end of the course was to make ones own decisions about which investments to make rather than being told what stock to buy. This convinced me that the speaker delivering the course has the right motivation, to educate and help people learn the skills needed to make their own investment decisions.
By Daniel Tengo on 12/2/2025
I rate this a 4.5 because the course has relevant information especially for new investors/traders. The remaining 0.5 goes to the extra technical analysis examples i was expecting. but as established in the course, the research, Fundamental and valuation investment are equally as important.
By Anonymized User on 11/19/2024
It made absolute sense for someone who started looking into Stocks recently. The course gives good tips on how one should analyze a stock or rather a company before investing. Thanks, Professor, for sharing the knowledge.
By Kim Augustine on 3/9/2024
Thank you. This gives a lot of wisdom and understanding on how to wisely start investing in the stock market. And the template makes it so that you can start now. This class was engaging, entertaining, and motivating for a newbie like me.
By Anonymized User on 12/8/2023
I love it! It's short and to the point. The investment research template is gold! Chris is a great teacher. It's obvious that he's really passionate about teaching and he always tries his best to explain concepts in a simplified manner to aid his students' understanding. For a complete finance noob like me whose native language isn't English, I was still able to follow his teachings and understand most of what he taught easily. This isn't the first course I've attended from Chris. He responds quickly to questions, which is something I really appreciate as many instructors don't bother to update or answer questions in the Q&A section, especially after a couple of years have passed since the course's creation date. “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” - take Chris' courses if you want to learn how to "fish"
By Patrice Bertrand on 10/13/2023
Common sense but nothing new here and nothing special if you're already a seasoned investor. It seems obvious that the author is not a fan of technical analysis at all, you can skip this part, it is useless, it's almost like the author is making fun of it. That being said, I like how the course is structured, and the best part is section 2, a few gems in here. Section 3 has some good refreshers into it, section 4 is useless. Worth the price ($20 for me), not more.
By Phuong Ha on 3/14/2023
Chris Haroun has a way of teaching and instructing that doesn't make me feel I need a Harvard degree in order to even take the course. He shares information in a way that makes it easy to absorb and retain. I have really enjoyed his courses on several topics and will be looking into his MBA online course.
By Michael Newbond on 8/4/2022
For a free course, it is very informative. I definitely got some very good tips along the way and am looking forward to using the template that is provided! Thank you Chris for explaining things in simple terms and examples that can be easily understood. Warm Regards, Michael
By Ademola Okunaiya on 7/29/2022
Simple, concise tips and guidelines to up your investing game. Does not teach you how to analyse stocks or the market. You will need to learn that elsewhere but for someone who already knows how to analyse stocks, having these tips in your toolbox will definitely help.
By Prashant Sharma on 7/29/2022
You are not only the best person, mentor and a leader but a very pure soul as well. Do take very good care of yourself, I am recovering from Covid so I can understand how difficult it is for you to record these sessions, my wishes for your safe recovery. And my commitment to you. I will start your MBA program this time. Its a promise to you chief
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Overall Score : 90 / 100












