The Akashic Field Chronicle

This post is a continuation of my previous post about stock trading.

As I’ve mentioned on Part I, I started experimenting on stock trading just a few weeks ago. I had absolutely no prior knowledge about stocks, or any kind of formal investment for that matter. Everything I know, I learned from the web and from this one-time free seminar conducted by CitisecOnline. My primary motivation isn’t really to make a lot of money (that would be great though), but to learn how the system works. Considering the minuscule amount of money I’ve invested, I don’t think there really is much to gain besides experience.

The plan is very simple:

“Learn as much as you can without losing too much, and by the time you do have enough money to get serious, you’ve already learned enough not to lose a lot”.

- A Friend of Mine, on trading stocks (paraphrased)

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It’s simply amazing how easy it is today to start trading stocks in the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) and how very little money it takes to start investing. Just a month ago I had absolutely zero knowledge about the stock market. Except maybe for the fact that a lot of people make money on it and even more people end up losing their shirts. Through a series of serendipitous events (or maybe just a series of coincidences, depending on how you look at it), I found myself learning more and more about stock trading. Now, I’m sitting on top of a few stocks in my portfolio and writing a little about how I started.

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