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What Year Did You Start Investing/Trading In The Stockmarket?

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Oh god I think I am up there with all the old blokes 1966 working in Mount Isa as the 15 level nipper, later flat-backing on Micaf 12 up to 9, I put money into MIM, Theise Brothers and a couple of other contractors around the Isa
Got burnt in 72? at the end of the nickle boom (commodities boom) it all collapsed, I was in Darwin by then just in time for Tracy didn't trust the markets again til early 87 and you guessed it got cleaned out again,

April 2007 I decided to once again try my luck and this time I had electronic trading and stop losses and CFD's to go short with so on this one I am winning and getting back the money I gave away on the last two tries

It comes around and it goes around

Happyjack
 
1993 via an AMP managed account thingy.

Than got interested in direct share investing / trading after i got my Amp Shares in 1997 Sold them for $19 (thought this was going to be easy money, Little did i know).
It has been fun ride ever since.
 
RichKid said:
Nice to have your company again on ASF! Where have you been!!?? I miss all those ideas you used to discuss here.
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Still blogging. Been very quiet on the equities front doing the covered calls thing which has been a great learning experience.

Currently completing a DFS.
 
happyjack said:
Oh god I think I am up there with all the old blokes 1966 working in Mount Isa as the 15 level nipper, later flat-backing on Micaf 12 up to 9, I put money into MIM, Theise Brothers and a couple of other contractors around the Isa
Got burnt in 72? at the end of the nickle boom (commodities boom) it all collapsed, I was in Darwin by then just in time for Tracy didn't trust the markets again til early 87 and you guessed it got cleaned out again,

April 2007 I decided to once again try my luck and this time I had electronic trading and stop losses and CFD's to go short with so on this one I am winning and getting back the money I gave away on the last two tries

It comes around and it goes around

Happyjack
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Probably walked over your tracks in 66. A Kiwi (called Trevor the trout) and
i had a few days off from shearing at Longreach and hit the Isa Pubs, and did a one hour guided tour. Remember the hot ingots, which we would see passing through Longreach to the coast. Some of your sweat.
 
Buddy said:
Ahh, emm, 1968. Showing my age now.
Was at University, in a share investing group. We also sold 2nd hand Holden cars into Indonesia. ;) About the time of Poseidon (no not the current rebirth by Twiggy one). Knew some guys at Uni who made a truck load out of that one (Poseiden), although I missed out. Went from 80c to $280 in a few months - now that's what I call a ramp, before the bubble broke. In the early 70's there were companies like Haoma, Southern Pacific, Central Pacific, Burma Oil (now Woodside) - made a few bucks out of them. Still waiting for the big one :rolleyes: hope it's BRM.
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T2 Float was my first foray in into the market and really got into it from 2002, so have had a good run. Have learnt the usual lessons with some losses through going in blind. Am also on BRM buddy and hope it a big one also. NXS has been my big one up until now, which I have been holding since 2004.:)
 
My first investment was in Tasminex , in the first nickel boom around 30 years ago . I was working for a Sydney broker and my mates dad , who was a dentist, gave us the tip !

I watched Tasminex go from $1.20 to $90.00 and back down again . I learnt a valuable lesson then , as I held onto them all the way down - well the dentist said they would go up again !!!

That was how crazy the market was in those days .

Jigalong
 
I invested in my first house in 1978.
Bought my first shares in 1980.
ECM East Coast Minerals 1,000 @ $0.19 plus $25 brokerage

Lil' Johnny Howard was Minister for Housing around that time! :)
 
Bought CBA in 1997 and sold same year for about a $200 gain. Didn't buy shares again until 2006 with Quay Magnesium whom I thought would do well because magnesium is used in automotive parts. Anyway, since then have bought and sold hundreds of different company shares, experienced the CFD phenomenon, traded forex and at one stage had more folding stuff than I ever had in my life. Stupidly (inexperience :banghead:) let the market take it + more back (strangely, I didn't think it would :eek:).

Needless to say, the lessons were painful and pleasurable and the more I learn the more I realise I have only scratched the surface of this large, interesting and diverse subject.

The journey continues .......
 
1993 with an employee share allotement of bhp shares (approx 1000 @ $6)and successive parcels and also became serious once the online trading became more efficient and availiable around 2000 or so
 
It was 2001 for me

I had played this asx sharemarket game for a few months and just when September 11 happened was around the start of the game I bought my 50k max(game dollars) in QBE at $3 something and won the game.

So I promptly when out and bought $2000 of QBE @ $5.98
sold them in dec 04 for a house deposit @ almost $15
 
First shares were from the T1 float, started accumulating in 2004 but only really had a system or enough money for it to make a difference in 2009.
 
2010.

Indices down from my entry this year, portfolio currently up 20% from buy in, looking at hitting 30% by end of next week barring no surprises.

Blue chip holdings push my percentage down of the huge gains from small cap holdings.
 

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