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Hey everyone,

Have been reading in awe the posts of ASF celebrities like Tech, Wayne, Nick, Wysiwig, TH, Bunyip, Snake - hell, the list could go on a while.

Seriously humbled just to be amongst it

I trade CFDs over ASX listed stocks, using a medium term trend following trading plan.
 
Hi All
I am Adi, have been watching the markets since last 3-4 years but was not trading or investing. Lost about 30K about 6 years back since then have lost confidence in trading.Trying to work on confidence and get on top of trading strategies.
Regards
adi
 
Welcome all new members, info is awesome here from the experts.

Remember its when you close out a trade thats important, not when you buy, when you close you have locked in your profit or cut your losses.

gg
 
Hi,

I joined here several years ago and lurked in the background occaisionally.

I've been investing and more recently trading australian shares & instruments for more years than I care to remember. Had a good run between 2003 & 2008, but recent performance has not been anything to write home about. This looked a happening site without the agro I have seen on some others.

I'm interested to get involved in stock picking thread and just check out the scene.

Mark
 
Hi all, im new to the forums and the stock market. Ive been reading up over the last 6 months or so trying to gather information about the market and trading. Im yet to make my first trade and want to learn more before i invest my money.
After a quick look around the forum it looks like theres heaps of good reading.
Jason.
 
Hi,

Had a brief fling with the Singapore stock market some years back and am new to the Aussie stock market. I am taking a value investing / high yield approach to shares / buying into a business and do not wish to be actively watching a stock on a daily basis.

Hope to learn lots from this forum. Heard its great.

Regards

Daniel Lee
 
Hey peoples- first post here.
Also new, seeking to learn from everyone here!
Currently in the gambling state of things, with small amounts of money here and there to keep me interested and hopefully focused!!
 
Hello all!

I'm probably a common kind of fish here, Math/Stat trained and looking for a career path that will keep me interested (tried actuarial/fin risk management and disliked it, didn't like research work for PhD etc etc) so I'm looking towards trading.

I'm about to post a new topic with all the details but thought it courteous to post a little intro first.

May all your trades be winners and such and so on and so forth!
 
Welcome to all the new members

Take some time to look around and get to know the search function, if you have a question it has probably already been asked, so have a quick search first.

All the best with your endeavours
 
Been reading the forums here for a little while, so thought I'd put my head up and say hello!

I jumped into the market for the first time in April 09, so I guess I have learnt the first lesson... timing is important!

Started with a mixed bag of 6 (mainly) defensives, and then added ROL @.315 a few months later (courtesy of David H at Eureka), which help turbocharge me to an overall 60% paper profit profit by 2010...so lesson 2, do your research and read as much as you can, as often as you can, and then make your own mind up.

Sold off 1/2 my ROL at 1.50, only to watch it go very quickly to 2.20+..lesson 3, timing your buy is not as important as timing your sell!

a...nd so now I am in the game and loving it. Still trying to work out if I am an investor or a trader... I love the idea of building a blue chip portfolio, but ROL, TRF, VIL... these small caps are quite addictive!

Cheers, and I look forward to learning more, gaining experience and over time giving something back, in the same way a lot of the experienced guys and gals here have helped me while I lurked over the last month or two...
 
Yes you did well and congratulations. After lesson 3 is ....

lesson 4.

hind·sight
n.
1. Perception of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.

Hope to see you around the forum.
 
Hi guys,
Just joined.
I live on a yacht in Brisbane with my wife on a 40ft trimaran and we cruise whenever we can.
Trading small cap mining stocks is the plan and operating from a boat is ideal with a lap top/wifi/satellite phone etc. between checking the crab pots

I have an account with Commsec and have been "watchlisting" for 6 months and reading everything I can on trading. Now I start?.
 
Trembling Hand said:
livin the dream,
I'm sorry about that,
Why small caps? Is that the extent of the plan?
I would say at a good guess. No.
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wow... i go on holidays and come back to see TH is back at his scalping best.

welcome back

.... just steer clear of those EW threads
 
Trembling Hand said:
livin the dream,
I'm sorry about that,
Why small caps? Is that the extent of the plan?
I would say at a good guess. No.
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Ok, what should i do, to improve my knowledge.

I'am open to any suggestions.?

Particulary I am interested in learning more about the "crowd behaviour" aspect of trading shares.
Any suggestions, books, articles etc which might help.
 
Hello! I am new in this community. I am interested in trading. Just completed a course - Smart Trading Plan & System Development course by Justine Pollard. I hope to learn a lot more from joining in this community.
 
beaul said:
Ok, what should i do, to improve my knowledge.

Particulary I am interested in learning more about the "crowd behaviour" aspect of trading shares.
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I would say you need to learn what makes your plan profitable and why.(partly by backtesting & sim/paper trading). Then you will know when to trade it and when its broken.

This is a step that probably most of the punters never get too. Yet is probably the most important step.

What is attractive about small cap mining stocks? how do they fit the "plan"?
 
beaul said:
Ok, what should i do, to improve my knowledge.

I'am open to any suggestions.?

Particulary I am interested in learning more about the "crowd behaviour" aspect of trading shares.
Any suggestions, books, articles etc which might help.
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you could read some books:

The Four Pillars of Investing - William Bernstein, 2002 - Portfolio strategy

The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham, 1949 - Stock selection and value investing

One up on Wall Street - Peter Lynch, 1989 - Growth style investing

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - Edwin Lefevre, 1925 - it's a fiction but most people believe it was (somewhat of) an autobiography - Speculating

Devil Take The Hindmost - Edward Chancellor, 2000 - History repeats itself

but on the otherhand they're just chatter too... market is a very different animal to what it was 50 years ago when Graham wrote Intelligent Investor.... but also very similar... same same, but different

my suggestion is - paper trade for a long time... scour the threads here and see what you can find out... you need experience... and you need to be careful... and you probably need a good year or so on the sidelines watching and learning.... and then STILL you'll be baffled... as i constantly am
 
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