What Year Did You Start Investing/Trading In The Stockmarket?
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David123 said:Hi, Just wanted to know what year you guys/gals first invested/traded in stockmarket? I first invested in 2003.. not a bad year to start investing
Cheers
Hehe you lucky bastard!
You started at the beginning of the Biggest Bull Market in Aussie history, end of the Bear Market (Sars2002), nice.
I started in Mid 2005, too late imo, missed alot of great boats
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I actually had shares prior to internet banking and the listing of asx. Back in those days it was difficult and expensive to trade. You bought blue chips and held.
My biggest entrance was telstra one share float. I bought heaps and sold at, from memory, 8.80$. Then amp gave me some freebies which i also sold at 23$. Optus was the best, you could trade this one into the ground with no money. By and sell and there was no three day settlement, made a **** load from all of those.
My biggest entrance was telstra one share float. I bought heaps and sold at, from memory, 8.80$. Then amp gave me some freebies which i also sold at 23$. Optus was the best, you could trade this one into the ground with no money. By and sell and there was no three day settlement, made a **** load from all of those.
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August 21, 2000 bought OXR at 10c
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1994
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1987 Learnt a lot since.
Learnt a lot since. 
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Bronte said:1987
1986 just before the big crash and stayed well away from the stockmarket until a couple of years ago.Glad I had the experience of a crash though, even though I was only a boy and didn't have a clue what I was doing.
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1994.
Got 1000 shares in the Qantas float.
Got 1000 shares in the Qantas float.
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1991, Comm Bank Float.
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I bought my first parcel of shares back in 1981 and a lot of water has flowed under the 'stockmarket' bridge since then.
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and a lot of water has flowed under the 'stockmarket' bridge since then. cheers
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We inherited some shares in 1989. It was very expensive to buy and sell back then and Brokers thought they were God! Probably still do although online trading should have killed off any delusions by now
I became serious about trading just around 2 years ago when I saw our SMSF disappearing into the red following a reliable broker's advice - sit and hold!
So I have been able to adapt to new booms, most recently the resource stocks and of course, GOLD
I became serious about trading just around 2 years ago when I saw our SMSF disappearing into the red following a reliable broker's advice - sit and hold!
So I have been able to adapt to new booms, most recently the resource stocks and of course, GOLD
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Think it was 1989 bought and sold Pacific Dunlop through Pont Securities. Both are no longer.
I inherited my first shares in 1984 (I was 1 day old). I was given 200 WMC shares @ around $2ea.
As for my first bundle of shares when I was 11 I used my dollarmites money to buy a $3000 bundle of shares through CBA with AMC, BHP, FGL, NAB and WOW.
Once I turned 18 I began to make more trades, and in the 3 years since I've learnt a hell of a lot, and even now I still know very little!
I'm just glad that even though I missed the property boom, I have been able to take full advantage of this current stock boom
As for my first bundle of shares when I was 11 I used my dollarmites money to buy a $3000 bundle of shares through CBA with AMC, BHP, FGL, NAB and WOW.
Once I turned 18 I began to make more trades, and in the 3 years since I've learnt a hell of a lot, and even now I still know very little!
I'm just glad that even though I missed the property boom, I have been able to take full advantage of this current stock boom
1991 or 1992, I was at University, bought Troy Resources, ERG, Polartechnics and Cloncurry Mining, and Fairfax I think. Did well. I was hooked. My first day of work in 1994 for a broker was a very bad time for the markets, it was April 1994 and a lot of turmoil. I still remember that but it was a storm in a teacup.
David123 said:Hi, Just wanted to know what year you guys/gals first invested/traded in stockmarket? I first invested in 2003.. not a bad year to start investing
Cheers
My dad bought me shares a few years ago but its only this year as part of my news years resolution that I've started investing myself.
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