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Beginners - Introduce yourselves!

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Hey All,

Been lurking the forums for a while now and decided I should introduce myself before getting involved with the community here. A bit about myself, I am 27 from Melbourne. Have taken time off from studying to be a Paramedic after my partner became pregnant and we had a baby boy. We were deep in debt before he was born and managed to pay off all our debt by the time he was born 6months ago. Since then I made a conscious decision never to be in that situation again and so I decided to start saving and reading about investing. I'm yet to pull the trigger and buy anything yet (after several 'almost' buys) but feel I still have a bit to learn.

Have found this forum to be a great help so far and hope to be able to contribute at some point.

Thanks!
 
Hi all,
Just introducing myself to the community. Brand new to trading and still learning. Bought my first few shares yesturday under the guidance of some good mates who also have the same "low risk" shares. Very excited about taking the pludge in share investments, wished I looked into it earlier when I was back in my 20's!
Cheers

V
 
Forex Dan

Hey guys,

Thought i'd introduce myself to the forums...

Im Dan, based in Brissy. Been trading FX for about 2 years (fulltime) after working a few years at Telstra. It's a blast to trade and doing very well.

I'd like to help anyone who needs help in trading FX, i do a mentor/coach side for free. All that jazz can be seen on my website.

Im not on the site much, not many FX traders out there, but be good to have a yak with a few of you.

Happy pippin!
 
PeterHercules - new to this site- need help!

I've been following Roger Montgomery and read his book Value.Able. He describes his way to calculate the Intrinsic Value of a company, but I can't get it to work. So I Googled and found an entry on this site. The contributor had a spreadsheet to do this calculation, so I downloaded it - but couldn't get THAT to work! It just seemed to be an empty spreadsheet.
I registered and posted a note asking the contributor for help, then bookmarked where I was.
I've come back to check for a response, and got the home page. I can't find a search field to find my post and any response, nor does there seem to be any help here. So I'm totally lost!
Can anyone help, please? If you post a response to this and don't get something that indicates I've read it - that will be because I don't know how to find it! Perhaps email me on ph@pobox.com if I don't respond.
Many thanks!
PeterHercules
 
Just saying Hi and a few questions

Hi all, noob here, done the reading and paper trading and ready to get started, il keep all the tech bits to myself as no doubt everyone will have his or hers opinion on how much where what and why to invest in XYZ, what im quite keen to know is what trading platform everyone uses or would recommend?

CMC? Belldirect? E*trade? or any other i've missed out?

just looking to see which one i should consider when opening an account?

PS will only be trading in stocks at the moment, and perhaps ETF's.

Have a good day!
 
Hi, I'm Christine from Perth, Western Australia. We have a SMSF which is mostly share-based and mostly Aussie shares, with some US stocks.

We use VectorWest as our main software as it's proven itself to be the most valuable of all the resource we rely on. In fact we were asked to host a user group here and that kicked off several months ago.

I hope to network with other Perth investors here.
 

I have looked at this online, just google it, and it appears to be a method of infantile investigation and method.

Not worth the money.

gg
 

Is it you or we?
 
Well thank you for the warm and friendly welcome, and for the gratuitous insult.

I may be new but I am not about to take that kind of behaviour from anyone. Mind your darn manners.


Garpal Gumnut said:
I have looked at this online, just google it, and it appears to be a method of infantile investigation and method.

Not worth the money.

gg
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Hi all

I'm Matt, reside in Tassy. Just joined the forum, look forward to what it has to offer!
 
Hi all new to the forum still having a look around..I got into shares back in 1999 my first puchace being Coca-Cola Amatil 640 @ around $3.40 still have those little buggers today .
Yea you could say i like to go long term
 
Hi all, names Ray, new to the forum and here to hopefully learn a bit about trading and then give back what I've learnt if I am successful in the future. Looking at making some passive income while working full time. Thanks for reading
 
Helllllooooooo everyone!

My name's nick, i'm a 26 year old adelaidian and after a few years of doddering around the ASX I decided to go head first in to technical analysis and read whatever could get my hands on. I've read about 20 books over the last 12 months and still consider myself a newb!

I work as an engineer and also run a part time IT consultancy. I guess that's what's made trading so appealing as it's fit right in with my lifestyle.

I'm obsessed with amibroker and backtesting all of my ideas but realize that I'm going to have to settle down to 1 or 2 main strategies if I'm going to make a success of trading. My main interest is taking advantage of the current volatility in the market with short term (1-2 day) trades looking to make 4-5% following trends.

I use bell direct for a broker but my dream is to automate my trades using amibroker and interactive brokers.

If anyone has any reading material, amibroker trading strategies or resources to pass on to me then send it on! My brain is a sponge!

Likewise, if you have any ideas for any applications or server side code you want written. Give me a shout and I'll be happy to help.

Cheers,

Nick
 
Hi, I'm hoping to learn about trading as well as reading charts. I'm 42 so looking to be ready for retirement (sooner the better!). Looking forward to sharing tips and general chit chat. Concentrating on trading daily/weekly after a bit of a probation!
Thanks Mark from Brisbane
 
Hi there. I'm currently a 19 year old student studying a Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in Accounting and Finance) at the University of New South Wales. I'm here simply to learn about trading, particularly foreign exchange and share market trading since I am willing to dedicate my time in stock investment. Plus, I hope to broaden my employment prospects through the knowledge I can gain in this forum, and to enjoy my major rather than studying it for the sake of grades and better employment prospects. If anybody has any words of wisdom to share for a student like myself, please feel free to give me a message.

Cheers!
 
G'day All,

After lurking for quite a while thought i would register

A bit about me - I am co-founder and a Director of an International Shipping business based in Sydney. I have no illusions about becoming a trader, and making a pile of money from the market......My business is my priority. My investment style is conservative and I am in for the long run. I hold a few LICs and will continue to buy LIC's and ETFs when opportunity presents. This forum is a great read and I look forward to being part of it
 
Hi all,
I'm a 19 yr old student doing a double degree at Monash University in Melb (Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Science). Over the past two weeks I've been picking through the threads and am learning at a rapid rate. I hope to continue to learn by utilising this forum and the knowledge of those that contribute to it. At the moment I have minimal capital and as such only day trade. I look forward to continually scanning this forum and contributing over the years as my knowledge progresses.
 
Hey Guys,

Im Ryan, im here to learn, I've been trading on and off for awhile now, but having just recently quit my job to trade, im needing as much help i can get. Im a technical trader and am currently trying out different systems and there success rates. My beliefs of the share market are based on Van tharp's believes and how he see's the market. I'm Not having to much luck with my trading tools though. My brokers, platforms and my data seem to be weighing me down. As well as that, im having trouble getting good results with testing my systems , im unable to trade it 24hrs hours a day. I'm basically trying to get advise on automated trading software that can help do it for me. As well as try find a trusted, upfront cfd, future and fx broker. Im new to forums, so please forgive me if i ask questions in the wrong areas. cheers
 
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