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Beginners - Introduce yourselves!

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Hi Everyone,

Final year accounting student at uni. Interested in learning about the stock market both for personal investment as well as professional knowledge. Have a very basic idea of how the stock market works from a theoretical standpoint but only just starting to learn the practical side of it.

Regards
 
hi traders, looking forward to making my first steps into trading and enjoying the benefits of a forum like this one.
 
Hey guys!

Really excited about finding this site. Hoping to start finally making the trading dream a reality. I think this site, with such a wealth of comprehensive information will really make the process a lot easier. Thanks in advance for everyones help.
 
Hi Everyone,

Just joined a couple of weeks ago been trying to read as much as I can. Already made my first mistakes but learnt from them! Am trying to follow the FA/Value path but realise that to be successful I need to understand TA as well - i.e. when to buy and when not to. Had I been a bit more savvy I may saved myself a few grand already (or that should read would not have lost a few grand already!) :)

Ta.
 
Hi all

Does anyone know of a free virtual trading platform that i can use to trade the Australian market, i have come across a couple for the U.S. market but cant find an aussie version.
 
australia are tight arses. im affraid you wont find any thing free in relation to free stock charts that offer a demo platform such as the ones you get for us equities and forex.
 
Howdy all! Signed up last week. Lots of interesting reading in these forums. I'm a 10 year ASX 200 share investor, I usually buy based on fundamentals and value but recently (last 2 years) I have been reading as much as I can on technical analysis with the goal of being a profitable active trader rather than a buy and hold investor. I am using BullCharts and am at the early stages of learning how to write and test my own systems. I look forward to learning and contributing!

Tanaka.
 
Joe Blow said:
I have decided we need a thread where those new to ASF or to the stock market can introduce themselves to the rest of the community. This way, we can avoid having 1,000 threads where people introduce themselves.

I have decided that this thread will be it! :)

So please, if you haven't already, feel free to introduce yourself!
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Afternoon all,
newbie to all this so I guess my lights will be burning late nights in all the reading, this is going to be a challenge.
I'll start at learning how to drive myself around ASF first and go from there.
Doing this from home and looking forward to it.
Cheers Jacqui
 
hey everyone!!!! :eek:
just a commerce uni student , here to learn more from you experts about trading!!
I've done cfd trading a bit, gotten nearly a few heart attacks from that! big profit and big losses about 50kish * but have made it back now* so PHEW.!

really looking forward to learning from you all!
 
Hi Guys and Girls,

Have recently started trawling through the huge amount of info on this site and am amazed to find actual investors and traders here as opposed to arm chair experts on other sites. I am currently looking for a career change into the finance world (currently project manager:eek:) whilst studying business and financial planning. Hope to learn a lot from everone and possibly one day contribute something.

Cheers
 
Hi all

I am currently trying to make sense of announcements from companies and a movement in their share price. It seems quite often that an announcment of price sensitive news (eg. merger) by a company is made on one day but the movement in price has occurred in 'after hours trading' the night before.

So my question is how can anyone take advantage of news or announcements.

Example:

The takeover of lihir by newcrest was announced on 01/04/2010 but the increase in price of Lihir happened in overnight trade on the previous night (ie. Lihir closed on 31/03/2010 @ $3.03 and opened up on 01/04/2010 @ $3.98 before the announcement had been made).

This seems to be the case quite often from my research. So where are people getting their information from and how can i compete.

I have been studying the markets and learning how to trade for some time now but this is something i have had difficulty finding an answer for -I would appreciate it if anyone could explain this to me.

Thanks Cobweb
 
Cobweb said:
The takeover of lihir by newcrest was announced on 01/04/2010 but the increase in price of Lihir happened in overnight trade on the previous night (ie. Lihir closed on 31/03/2010 @ $3.03 and opened up on 01/04/2010 @ $3.98 before the announcement had been made).
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The announcements came out before the market opened on 01/04 at

01/04/2010 > 9:31AM > NCM: Newcrest Confirms a Proposed Combination with Lihir

01/04/2010 > 8:28AM > LGL appoints new CEO

01/04/2010 > 8:27AM > LGL rejects acquisition proposal from Newcrest Mining Ltd
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so all bets were placed before market opened.

This seems to be the case quite often from my research. So where are people getting their information from and how can i compete.
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Can't help you there spider. I can suggest you research how to "research" to get the facts right and could you post questions related to companies in their thread please. This thread is called ... Beginners - Introduce yourselves!
 
Long time reader, thought I should sign up and get involved. Currently in my final year of uni studying B. of Applied Finance and B. of Business (Property). Will hopefully do Masters of Applied Finance next year.

Currently investing in stocks and some managed funds. Looking forwad to learning and contributing on this site!
 
Hi I've been driving around for weeks and all sounds good.
I have for almost a year wanting to trade on the market so the next stop was to join and here I am.
I'd like to start small and have a few stocks to get a feel of the trends.
So research and all ears i am thanks all, will zoom around again then start my chats.
Cheers
 
Registered last week. I am a truly beginner of stock trading. Hope to learn from this forums, and eventually profitable. ;)
 
New to the forum...

Used to work for CommSec for over 2 years, in IT department though, now investing overseas as I got an overseas job last year.:):):)
 

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