Beginners - Introduce yourselves!

[brhemail]

HI. I am thinking of starting to trade and thought this would be a good place to start to learn a few thing before I jumped in and blew my hard earned cash. Thinking of doing eminis/futures trading. Can anyone tell me if there is any good mentored programs out there on the net? Prefferably Australian based. Is it worth paying for a live trading room with pro trader calls?
Any other comments would be greatly appreciated.
ps. I have about A$5000 to play with.

 

[Trembling Hand]

HI. I am thinking of starting to trade.....

Thinking of doing eminis/futures trading. Can anyone tell me if there is any good mentored programs out there on the net? ..........

ps. I have about A$5000 to play with.

If there was the first thing they would tell you is 5 g's is about 10 times not enough to trade.

 

[erevan]

Brand new to this.
I am interested in investing, saving, whatever.
I have around 10k available to invest at the moment, though I am really not sure where to even start..
Advice please !!!

 

[prawn_86]

Brand new to this.
I am interested in investing, saving, whatever.
I have around 10k available to invest at the moment, though I am really not sure where to even start..
Advice please !!!

Welcome to ASF, research is the first step to anything and ASF is a great resource.

I suggest you read the site rules and guidelines and then get to know how to use the 'advanced search' function, its an invaluable tool.

Also check out the Beginners Lounge, as if you have a question it has probably already been asked and then answered.

Remember take your time and preserve your capital...

 

[benhua]

Hi all,

I'm Benoit from France and i'm interested in the ASX at this stage.
To begin, i plan to spend just a little bit for market education purpose.
And then, we'll se how it goes (or not)

Bonne chance a tous

 

[fairdinkum]

hello everybody!

I'm Pat from Berlin.

Have been to Australia in 2006/07 and loved the place! made some bucks in drilling. bought some aussie shares - hope they do better in the long-term than they do at the moment. (not the only one I guess.)

have been lurking around here for quite a while. I think its a pretty good website. heaps of information to be found!

at the moment I'm studying geology - hope I'll be back to Australia rather soon.

regards, Pat

 

[Vman5]

Hi!

I am 18, got about $2k to invest, and was very eager to invest after this crash, but posts have informed me that it may go down further, but their is no sign of an uptrend, which has been valuable information, things don't pop up when BHP falls 50%.

Anyway I have been following the stockmarket for about 4 years and my knowledge is building and finally have enough capital to invest.

Finally ASF is excellent!

Cheers

 

[virago]

Hi Wysiwyg,

welcome to the forum, 'what you see is what you get' here in ASF.

 

[virago]

Brand new to this.
I am interested in investing, saving, whatever.
I have around 10k available to invest at the moment, though I am really not sure where to even start..
Advice please !!!

Welcome to the forum, first thing to start is with educating yourself, paper trade will also help.

 

[nulla nulla]

I recommend you buy some books on share trading & charting. Also check the daily newspapers. Some of the regular writers have a fairly good grip on what is happening in the market, both generally and in specific sectors. Reading, watching and paper trading first will help you prepare for putting your money in.

 

[robinsoa]

Hi,
My name Andrew, 37 from Adelaide.

I just did my first trades over the last couple of weeks.
I had $20K so I split it between some mainly blue chip stocks (BHP, STO, ARG, CSL, TLS, WOW and TOL).
I have just started doing research on everything - maybe I should have done that before trading - oh well I figured one way to learn was to jump straight in.
I also have 20K of issuer sposored STG shares from my old job I just got the boot from, and a few NHF ones from the demutualisation

This site looks great and will help my learning big-time

 

[Geoff]

Hi all, having a bit of a lurk to see if trading is for me. Considering having a dabble in the market to try and learn some things but unless I'm confident about making a good return, I'm probably better off sticking everything in the mortgage to reduce the interest I'm paying. Still, I might have a play with $5k or so and see what happens.

 

[aohx075]

Hi everyone~,

My name's Andrew and I'm a 25 year old. I've got about 10k to use for trading. I'm actually interested in the day-trading rather than long term investment into stocks.

Right now I'm trying to figure out what market is right for me and what instruments I'd want to trade in i.e. if I want to trade options, CFDs or on the Forex market. I'd appreciate it if anyone could point me to any information or people's experiences on different day-trading.

As I'm working full-time, my plan is to be able to trade either on the weekends or after work. If I can see some considerable success from trading, then I might start thinking about switching to trading full-time.

Thanks!

 

[Bafana]

New here and looking forward to learning a lot from your accumlated wisdom before engaging in the market(s). Thought it was bout time to start doing something other than unit trusts, term investments and small town real estate that even though it looks good on paper it doesn't bring me money stream and still got to chase a paycheck.

Suggestions on start up books greatly appreciated.

 

[Redwings]

Hey guys!

Decided to find out more about the world of stock! Have been lurking around the forums and reading up lately. Exciting times we're in to say the least....

Happy trading!

 

[sly]

Hey guys. 32 yo from the south coast of NSW. just getting started on the investing road.

 

[choice1]

Hey guys, figured I should introduce myself. I'm 20 and studying accounting/finance at uni. I actually originally found this place/started getting interested in it from a platinum pursuits lecture. Decided I'd check online to see what he's teaching and what people thought (before spending 7k) ...saved me an expensive lesson.

 

[shanewild85]

Hey guys,

I'm 23 and am completely new to this - haven't done so much as find a broker yet. Any recommendations?

 

[prawn_86]

Welcome to all the new members, great to see ASF is still growing

Your first port of call should be the site rules and guidelines, which can be found at the bottom of every pages.

Secondly, learn how to use the search and advanced search functions. If you have a question its probably been asked before.

Welcome to ASF

Prawn

 

[gismo]

Hi, I'm an Aussie expat in Japan and have some stocks already in OZ and the US. Now I want to learn how to re-coup my losses! Probably sounds familiar!

Anyways looking forward to reading and posting here.