The one-paragraph version
One Investing Checklist is a bilingual investing-education site: a Chinese original and this hand-written English edition. No paid tier, no stock picks, no newsletter funnel, and deliberately no comment box. It teaches boring, evidence-based investing — index funds, asset allocation, behavior — and backs every claim with either reproducible computation or a named public source. The receipts live on the methodology page.
Start where your question is
“I’ve never invested and don’t know where to begin.” Take the course in order: Start here, then Foundations, Investing 101, and Building a Portfolio. Twelve short reads; each ends with something to actually do.
“I want to see the evidence before I believe anything.” Go straight to the portfolio charts: a century of annual real returns rendered as growth, drawdowns, rolling returns, a heat map, start-date sensitivity, and withdrawal math. Or browse the portfolio library, where eight classic recipes are measured with one yardstick.
“I want to play with numbers.” Every calculator runs entirely in your browser, and the optimizer will happily teach you why optimizing on history is a trap, by letting you do it.
“I’m curious what rule-based investing looks like in practice.” A read-only dashboard tracks the author’s own strategies, and Field Notes recaps the signals monthly — history, never forecasts.
Region notes
The English edition is written region-neutral: broad-market funds, dollar-cost averaging, and tax-advantaged accounts described by shape rather than by country (a 401(k)/IRA in the US, ISA in the UK, RRSP/TFSA in Canada, Super in Australia). The long-run data behind the charts is US-dollar, US-market history (the deepest public record available), and the site says so wherever it matters, because the lessons travel even where the exact numbers don’t.
What the Chinese edition has that this one doesn’t (yet)
Meanwhile the Chinese site, as the origin, still runs ahead: a four-level curriculum of a hundred-plus articles, nine printable checklists, twelve calculators, and China-specific practical guides. The English edition converges toward it version by version, with China-only material rewritten or omitted rather than mistranslated. If you read Chinese, the 中文版 is the fuller meal; if you don’t, everything here was written for you, not translated at you.
Following along
New articles and monthly Field Notes land in the RSS feed — the site’s only subscription channel, by design: no email list to leak, no algorithm in between. Put it in any feed reader and you are, in the truest sense of the phrase, fully subscribed.