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Hi, I am new in this forum.

Previously I was working as commodities sales in a bank. Now working as investment manager in a hedge fund.

I hope to contribute some quality trading ideas in my this dynamic forum.
 
Hi everyone!

Im a young novice investor who's interested in technical analysis and day trading, my knowledge base is little but im always looking at new ways of learning.

My goal is to be successful in the long term and gain income from trading that i can live on (like everyone!).

Nice meeting you all.
 
Hi guys, I joined a while ago but I've been slacking. Need to learn about the share market more. Hope to get some good advice/info here!
 
hi folks

I'm not trading yet, just trying to comprehend many of the complexities of technical and fundamental analysis.

I also lack the starting capital, but i'll get there. I hope

I have been reading the forums for about a month and found many of the posts here useful, particularly those that suggest recommended reading material and websites like investopedia.com

cheers
 
Giday all,

Making a try at Trading & paid employment say 50/50

Hope your targets are hit and Stops are close.

cheers, Peter
 
Question: Can any body tell me if it is possible to find out which brokers are buying/selling a particular stock on a particular day? Is there a way of finding out if a particular broking house is pushing a particular stock?
Thanks. J.
 
Jewels said:
Question: Can any body tell me if it is possible to find out which brokers are buying/selling a particular stock on a particular day? Is there a way of finding out if a particular broking house is pushing a particular stock?
Thanks. J.
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Jewels, can I call you Family, don't think you will find on any paticular day but they do definately push stocks. Not going to go into detail other than to say I had a go at one yesterday. (good mate wanted to sell a stock last week & the broker advised against), it's down 15%.
 
Hi guys,

been in shares for 2weeks now.
Very very new; knew next to nothing.

Did some moderate research, already purchased shares from 3 companies, of which 2 was advised by a friend.
Total invested is very small; However I learn quicker when there is SOME money involved =)
I hope to x2-x5 within a year.

invested:
NSL $4.1, CAG $1.7, LNC (purchased at $4.55, can see some short term success coming along)

I'm also interested in OVERSEAS investment...
China, India, Russia? seems to be where the BIG money is at.
what are your thoughts?
 
I'm saving up for a deposit for a house. I'm starting from scratch so it will be some time before I get enough, so I thought for the first year I'll buy some blue chips and hold and in the meme time teach myself more about investing and eventually trading.
I am focusing mostly on reducing my spending: putting $250-$400 away a week out of $550 - $700 ($260 expenses [$150 rent, food, utility, whatnot] $40 goes into the ether) I work as a process worker and just got an $80 pay rise which will go into saving/investing as well.

so yeah here I am.

25/m/Newcastle nsw...

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oh, I have been at this for 5 months now. I have $6000 worth of shares (mostly ORG) and $1000 in a term deposit +bill money. I bought 1K of PEN as a spec and will watch and see what it does over the next couple of years, I don't want to risk too much money though. I'm thinking that I could use the first home buyers savings plan to hold half of what I save and invest the rest myself on companies that have a good track record. I'm thinking consumer goods for my next company: what do you think (for a 2-4 year time-frame)?
when it comes time to buy a home I'll probably sell off the shares but keep the ones that perform the best. hopefully I would be in a better position to determine what to do at that point.
 
The fool sayeth 'put not all thy eggs in one basket'...but the wise man sayeth 'put all your eggs in one basket, and watch the basket.'

Mark Twain

The brokers will tell you to diversify. Well they would, wouldn't they?

My only advice is to latch on to something we can't do without and is not renewable. My favourites are the fossill fuels. The demand for coal, gas and oil will increase far into the forseeable future.
 
phatpleasure,
hey...
to be honest I would not worry about investing in those countries...
The Aussie stock market is perhaps one of the best in the World to invest in (im a kiwi), and China, India, and Russia are all complicated...
they are too risky... Perhaps you can pursue this path, buth just one step at a time.. spend at least the next year on aussie stocks only...
I dont think id ever invest in Russia, its far too corupt...

.^sc
 
Hello. I'm a semi-novice trader (made some $ and lost it in commodities a few years back) Been lurking a while on this forum and learning much. Studying Tom Williams book atm. A real eye opener. Great forum. Glad to find it.
 
hey im new to this site, im 22 havent started trading real money as yet, want to get my facts right first, been looking at trading sofetware dvds, and have gone to a few seminars, but they sound way too good to be true, and they want like over 5k to join and to use there sofetware If anyone can give me some advice on where to start, is 20k too much to start off with?
 
Hi everyone,

38/M/Sydney

I've been watching the market for awhile, and I've gotten into it now in the last 6 months and have already quickly learned some lessons.

Let me know when you think its reached the bottom, I might have some money left.

I've often sold and bought a day or two too early, so I'm selling before the rise has finished and I'm often buying a day early when the next day there are better prices. So I'm getting a better feel for the timing of rises and falls now, well at least in my mind I am.

I often buy thinking its a long term deal, then I can't help but to sell if it gets higher than I think it would.

At least I don't have to worry about capital gains tax right now.

So if it goes down, do you sell and then buy something else that'll rise quicker, do you increase your stake, or do you hold on forever ? I've tried all methods.

I was starting to think that a good investor is someone with big balls who panics alot, judging by what I see on the trades. Now I'm starting to see that often its best to wait and let people panic for awhile, then step in later, but also acknowledge that sometimes its good to panic and sell quick as well.

So how much lower will it go ? Looking into my crystal ball, I see oil going into the 80's then going right back up to $100 for awhile. The US economy situation and housing, I'll wait for news on that. Just speculating, I can't see it going much lower than 4000, I guess we'll find out soon.

I came in thinking I'll be a long term trader only, however, I'm finding that I like the cut and thrust, brutality and ruthlessness of short term trades, but I'm trying to build fixed holdings on some of the big dividend payers as well when the timing is right.

I don't like Monday and Friday on the market, Monday, because you don't know what will happen on Monday US time, and Friday, because you don't know what may happen over the weekend. I'm sure if someone analysed it though, these are probably the best days for gains the following trading day.
 
No they would probably come to the conclusion not to give a toss about the US overnight moves.
 
Hello folks,
I have been lurking in this forum for several weeks now and have found the commentary very interesting and useful. I have been reading/researching CFDs for the last month and have just started paper trading this week. I have $5000 capital to get started, but want to prove the concept first. Finding that i am learning something new every day. Am planning to adopt a conservative approach so that i am never risking more than $200/300 per trade. I look forward to making a positive contribution here.
 
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