MarketViews

The tools: R20 000 to invest and an online trading account with Sharenet and Imara S.P. Reid

The mission: To invest/buy shares in a company listed on the JSE and document my progress and each step of this process

The goal: To hopefully make some kind of return within a year and show fellow beginner investors that investing isn't the deep dark unknown terrain we believe it to be!

So there you have it, armed with some cash and the instructions to document my every move on the stock market (from signing up to how I actually go about choosing which shares to buy), I'm about to embark on an investment adventure that aims to expose how easy (or difficult?) investing actually is.

This online diary will record my every move and will take you through my thought processes and emotions that go hand-in-hand with investing. As a novice in this field, I'm both excited and nervous to discover what all this entails! I only hope that what I learn from this experience will benefit other beginner investors and encourage them to also take the plunge and start investing themselves.

So (deep breath), wish me luck and join me as I enter the exciting and hopefully not-so turbulent world of investing!!

Regards, Marika