Stock Market and Me - A Walk Down Memory Lane
So learning about the stock market started at a young age for me. Officially, I started having money in the stock market some time in junior high school. It first started by going to a bank getting introduced to the investment side of the bank branch. And from there I started investing in mutual funds that tracked the index, bond funds and monthly income funds. At that time, the idea of investing in stocks sounded scary (and in hindsight, rightly so as trading costs were high, and with the capital I had, it wasn't enough to have diversification). Then in 2007, cashed out of the stock market to purchase property. While it seemed logical at the time, the timing of the purchase was right before the housing market crashed - making the property I bought suffer a huge loss on paper. This would cast a big shadow and would delay my (re)-entry back into real estate. From that point on, for quite a few years, I had stayed mainly in the stock market as my go to investment choice.