New investors benefit from financial education, allowing them to have improved trading returns.
The rising cost of living, worsened by rapid inflation and salary stagnation, affects many American families. Financial independence and security are becoming more challenging for many people to achieve, leading to uncertainties and doubts.
As part of its mission to provide hard-working Americans an avenue to a better life through financial literacy, Verified Investing makes the world of retail investing more accessible through its institutional strategy and proprietary framework.
By providing thorough financial education, Verified Investing helps retail traders develop a data-backed strategy for investing and minimize reliance on speculatory tactics. Through measured and incremental gains, its goal is to allow millions of Americans to reach financial freedom through sound investing practices and access to high-level institutional tools that previously were out of reach of retail investment participants.
According to the company’s founder, Gareth Soloway, the key to successful investing is to rely on the numbers rather than emotion or ‘gut feeling.’ He believes that investors should adopt the mindset of a casino operator rather than a gambler.
Over the past several years, investing has become more popular among the general public, partly because of the greater availability of information via the Internet, social media influencers, and investment-focused communities. Another factor contributing to this growth was the abundance of commission-free mobile trading apps on the market, which present a lower barrier to entry for people who want to try their hand at investing. The COVID lockdowns also bolstered this, giving people more time to try out and learn how to invest.
By the first half of 2022, retail investors made around $1.3 billion of stock market investments every day, proving how popular retail investing has become.
Unfortunately, many investors suffered setbacks due to a lack of mathematically robust strategies. While some retail traders can grasp the importance of statistics, many are just ‘bandwagon’ investors, hopping on trends rather than discerning what the data is trying to tell them.
Verified Investing seeks to counter this through data-driven financial education via carefully selected trading courses and educational workshops focusing on investment fundamentals. It also aims to provide reliable financial news for its readers, allowing them to keep up-to-date with critical financial developments.
Before establishing Verified Investing, Gareth was a seasoned financial planner and advisor. Collaborating with a business partner, he developed the PPT Methodology, which enables better returns from short-term investments. Since 2007, he has had an 80% success rate for his trade alerts, which he achieved through diligently honing his swing and day trading skills.
Gareth credits his success to his keen ability to perceive subtle market shifts as they happen, helping predict major events. Notably, he was able to warn investors about the financial crisis of 2007 and Bitcoin briefly peaking at $69,000 before dropping over the following months. This gave him recognition within financial circles, and he became a thought leader whose opinions were sought by various business news outlets such as Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance.
In 2021, Verified Investing debuted as a subscription financial news service, relaying updates about stock, ETF, commodities, and cryptocurrency investing. The following year, Gareth added an educational component through Verified Investing Education, which offers both free and paid courses. These give learners access to previously institutional-only investing strategies and a proprietary methodology developed over 25 years of trading.
According to Gareth, investment is a crucial component of building wealth, and effective strategies should be within reach of the average American. Through Verified Investing, he encourages everyone to explore investing, driven by his philosophy of ‘starting small is better than never trying.’
“Investing is like farming – you need to sow for you to harvest,” Gareth says. “This may be daunting for many people, which is why I encourage them to start small. Whether they invest $100 or $100,000, the most important thing is to have a responsible and effective strategy backed by statistically sound data.”
Moving forward, Verified Investing plans to expand its offering through new workshops and courses that meet the needs and financial goals of investors from all walks of life.
