Beginners - Introduce yourselves!

[alanding]

hi, guys.
iam alanding. I am 32 years old. Just put my feet in aussie stock last month. This is so gorgeous forum. This is always the first home page I open when I arrive in my company to work. And start to learn. I found a guy whose is young_trader is quite good at stock analyze.
Anyway, I hope anyone can l enjoy and make money. Also share information

 

[black_bird2]

Morning all, 33 in Darwin and recently sold an investment property so I thought I would dabble in the stocks. I stumbled over this fantastic site and have visited at least once a day since. Doing my research before the sale funds hit my account and will see what I can do from there. Great site and I am enjoying finding my feet.

 

[Jockstar73]

Hi,
Live in Melbourne, have been trading for about 6 years now. Nothing major, but each year give myself a goal of how much I want to make in the upcomming year (always pretty conservitive so it is achievable). So I have gone from having to trade in sub 1 cent stocks, to 1-5cent stocks and can now dabble in the 50cent and up ranges and still make some cash. When I first started, as soon as my stock rose enough to cover my initial outlay, I would sell enough so what ever I had left was play money.... this was good for a while, but not totally conducive to making heafty profits. BTW i also made my fair share of losses along the way as well......

Cheers.... Jock

 

[kokosh]

Hello all. Have bought a couple of speculative shares over the last few years from tips off mates, who got tips off mates and so on.Thought I should try and gain some understanding of the market, so joined up. I have a lot to learn.

 

[Purple XS2]

Trading 8 months.
Borrowed to invest; have sufficient real estate equity to survive disaster.
Old enough to remember 1987 crash, 1998 S.E. Asian paper tigers, 2001 I.T. tech-wreck. One or all of the above will probably recur tomorrow, or the day after or the day after next.
(1929 was before my time)

Work in I.T., live in beautiful downtown Hobart.

Collected about 30 stocks which I plan to winnow down to a dozen. Some I.T., some bio-pharmaceutical, some engineering, some financial services.

Keeping out of resources except for a couple of small holdings which I may offload. Not because I think ill of resources' future, I just have ethical issues about digging up the elements to sell as if there's no tomorrow.

I appreciate the variety of perspectives from ASF. I particularly enjoy the statistical/analytical chart gazers. Very entertaining. Nice colours.

My tips for those (I include myself here) silly enough to swallow them
UXC - reliably going places
AVX - take a chance - you know you want to.
OEC - petrol engines aren't going to disappear in a hurry, somebody has to make them run better.

ciao,
PXS2

 

[jandrews_84]

Hey everyone.
Finally got a real job after finishing uni, have repaid some debts and have a spare cent to invest, and my brother recommended this site. Fantastic site, im getting a bit addicted reading through the threads, so I thought i should make a post and say hi, and thanks!

John

 

[kirrils]

I'm 36, very much a newbie, have been trading for...hmmm... a whole 3 weeks. Live in the Midwest WA, have shares in MMX, GWR, AGO, CUL. Not big stakes, just playing at the mom til I get a feel for what exactly effects the market.

 

[brettc4]

My name is Brett, 31 from Adelaide. I have owned stock for a couple of years but due to an imminent redundancy I thought I would take some time between jobs to do what I should have done before I started trading, thats right create a Trading Plan.

I have been looking all over for what should be included in a trading plan and have started it's construction but I am sure to have numerous questions along the way.

Glad to be here.

Brett

 

[vascocentral]

Hi,

I'm from Melbourne and a newbie, in fact I haven't bought any shares as yet. I'll spend some time reading through this forum and find out what the Stock Market is all about. Will be quite a journey!!

VascoCentral

 

[hatrader]

Greetings all!

Please bear with me as this is my first post.

Firstly, I stumbled upon this site while doing some stock research and judging by the quality of threads, apparent knowledge and friendly discourse, I joined up promptly!

A quick bio to introduce myself…….

Age 46, living in Perth WA and have a hobby of collecting vintage compact Mac’s!
After running a busy restaurant for over 15 years, I took the long service 6 months ago, cut back to a 3 day week with a direct purpose for the rest of the (working?) time devoted to the newly discovered world of the share market and day trading.


ACCOUNT No.1 – Medium to Long term
With an initial start of 25k, I have been fortuitous to have currently 60k within a 10 month period thanks mainly to the “early” stages of PDN, DYL, LYC and NIA.
So….a good start thanks to quiet fundamental research and…. a bit of gut intuition.

It’s not all roses though, the world of short term day trading account has shown my weaknesses…

ACCOUNT No.2 – Short term (CFD’s via IG Markets)
Initial outlay to test the waters was 5k. After quickly adding an extra 1k thanks to a long - PDN CFD, invincibility was at hand! That was until I didn’t bother to look at the chart and doing another long with PDN, I had bought at its almost peak of $10.95 and of course, the rest is history. Lesson learn’t!!! I managed to salvage and retain 1k in the account to which I now use sparingly on the Mini 200 to develop skills.

That’s it in a nutshell….look forward to meeting you all

Cheers

 

[jonojpsg]

Hi all,
Have been on ASF for a couple of months - it's great value! Started trading with a tip from a workmate, Gullewa Gold, back in 1995. Put $5k in chasing my tail on the way down,and sold last year for $200. That was my worst experience. If instead I had taken on say a nice bluechip bank like CBA I would have been rolling in it - ce la vie.

Am 34 and would love to retire before 50 as I teach maths/science and it really sux some days. Have made some good progress over the past year, convinced my wife to let me borrow $20k to trade with and have turned it into $40k,which i can't complain about. On the other hand, I read a thread titled "Turn 9500 into 550000" which pointed out that a purchase of Fortescue Metals three years ago at 64c and sell at $35 would have made a pretty 6000% gain! Hopefully my latest speculations, AEX, WMT, SDL can deliver something like this.

Look forward to catching your tips.

 

[kirrils]

For beginners some of you guys have done really well. I guess my biggest learning curve is not only learning what is potentially going to effect the prices of my invested shares, but knowing when is the right time to sell? If anyone has some advice from past experience I would love to hear what you have to say.

 

[stormbringer]

Hey guys, 38 and in adelaide. I tried cfd's a couple of yrs ago and bombed out, basically hadn't educated myself enough, so I switched tactics and investing in some micro's for the short to medium term. Currently holding JMS and GDY. I plan on getting back into cfd's in the near future.

 

[matt_calhoon]

G'day, mid 30s, wife let me have $3k to gamble with...thanks to YT and others on this forum its up to $7k. Really enjoying learning and am thankful I found this forum.

 

[trinity]

G'day, mid 30s, wife let me have $3k to gamble with...thanks to YT and others on this forum its up to $7k. Really enjoying learning and am thankful I found this forum.

Hi Matt,

Just wondering how much time it took for you to take 3K into the market and have it up to 7K at present?

Thanks

 

[EZZA]

Hey Fella's,

26 yrs old, been actively investing last couple of years mostly blue chips and mid cap companies.
Just been playing the trading game, last 6 months dabbling in the small caps.

currently holding gbg, wds, nxs, and bos as my small caps.

i view nxs, gbg, and wds as medium to long term stocks, not not really looking to trade these, will be using a simple tech analysis to figure out entry or exit points if they start to look shaky. bos purely a trading stock for me, however volumes fairly low.

looking to acquire ady.

doing alright so far, but have to admit most of my money made just holding stocks not really through trading though.

anyone have input on these stocks, any advise would be appreciated.

Cheers
EZZA.

 

[acooper]

Hi, New here and would like to learn as much as possible so my portfolio grows instead of going downhill
Adrianna

 

[BIG BWACULL]

Hi, New here and would like to learn as much as possible so my portfolio grows instead of going downhill
Adrianna

Dont we all, GOOD LUCK

 

[Russh]

hey guys

I'm 23 from Perth
Work in financial planning
Im here to learn more about technical analysis

 

[Captain]

I am looking at this site for the first time after Joules MM1 recomended it to me elsewhere. I am an old newbie trader and am trying to get the technical stuff to support fundamentals, concentrating on resources mainly with a few blue chips for yield.
Weeks like this past one reminds me of the need to be careful with trying to catch falling swords when prices drop, I think I have finally learnt to keep my itchy finger off the button and waiting (well so far anyway!!).