Skip to content
Finance Hut
  • Home
  • Who We Are
  • The Team
    • The Team
    • Management
    • Consultants
  • Business Services
  • Legal Services
  • Opportunities
  • Connect with us
  • Toggle website search
Menu Close
  • Home
  • Who We Are
  • The Team
    • The Team
    • Management
    • Consultants
  • Business Services
  • Legal Services
  • Opportunities
  • Connect with us
  • Toggle website search

Tshwarelo  | Investor Stories

  • Finance Hut Team
  • June 5, 2018
  • No Comments
My name is Tshwarelo
I started investing in various kinds of investments at age 20, including JSE listed instruments, crypto currencies, and forex. I have made a lot of money and conversely I have lost a lot of it. Today, I am still an investor if we had to be technical about it, but I still do feel like I am still aspiring to be an investor. Reason being is that still have so much to learn as majority of my returns were mostly pure luck.
I started investing because I realized I will never gain true wealth if I only relied on having a job, no matter how well it pays. I wish I had started sooner cause investing really does require a lot of patience. But then again, I am very proud of myself for eventually starting.
I was introduced to easy equities by a brilliant first year girl while I was in my 3rd year. At first I was quite paranoid as I too had that stigma that shares are risky. I then challenged myself because it doesn’t make sense for me to be reluctant to spend hundreds and thousands of rands on alcohol, yet I can’t risk a few rands in shares. So I stared small, with as little as R10 and experimented. I think that was the turning point in my life. I started making commitments to invest at least R50 per month. As I kept pumping in more money, I started researching and growing as an individual. I kept looking for other investment opportunities as well. I eventually discovered cryptocurrency, the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum, which just isn’t doing so well anymore, but still a very relevant topic of discussion amongst all investors worldwide. (I’m not saying go invest in Bitcoin, this is just my story). I have withdrawn from that market since its biggest crash earlier this year and unlikely to back. I moved most of my funds to equities and debt instruments.
I’m still investing and growing, as investing has become a life long journey for me.

Share this with your network (click on the button):

You may also love this:

Simnikiwe | Investor Stories

My investment/saving journey started at the age of 9. I schooled 30KMs from where I lived, so...
Read More

@StandwaNongauza | Investor Stories

I've been investing for two years now, since completing my certificate in Financial Markets and Instruments. My...
Read More

A story inside a story…

I’m often asked which book is best in order to learn to invest and I always refer...
Read More

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Contact us for a quotation:

Get in touch

Legal Notices | Copyright © | 2023

This site uses cookies to collect activity data and personalize content. By continuing to navigate this site, you agree to allow us to collect information using cookies.

THANK YOU, I AGREE
PRIVACY POLICY
PRIVACY POLICY