A month of plain-English investing lessons in one free read
Each issue collects a month of short InsightMeter lessons into one book you can keep: how to check a viral market claim yourself, step by step, before you act on it.
Issue 2 · October 2026
Check the numbers behind the headlines before you trust them
10 short lessons on what a number is really answering: why an “insider sold” alert can be shares withheld for tax, how to tell a fresh private fundraise from a yearly update, how to compare company quarters fairly, whether “record profit” turned into cash, how to read yield-curve charts, and how to spot a cherry-picked track record.
Issue 1 · September 2026
Tell a viral trading alert from what the document actually says
12 short lessons on checking a social-media alert against the source: a five-step way to find the right filing, why “just filed” is not “just happened”, what insider buys and sells really show, why a big fund’s quarterly holdings list is a snapshot rather than a buy signal, what crossing 5% ownership means, and why a buyback announcement may not shrink the share count.
Source: lessons adapted from InsightMeter’s English articles; examples are based on public SEC filings (Form 4, Form 144, 13F, Schedule 13D/13G, Form D, 8-K, 10-K).
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