At what age did you start dabbling in the share market?

[Biscuit]

Bought first shares thirty-odd years ago when still at high school (18 or less I guess). Had some money from a holiday job so went to Lawrence Milton and Howarth and introduced myself. First shares were in NZOG.

[robbo24]

Damn at the age of 13? When kids were still into pokemon, you were into sharesu?
Far out! Good on you!

When WHS had an IPO a few years prior I was amazed at how it all worked and reading in the newspaper how people made money on it.

I had my own car washing business. Every Saturday I would go and fling mud and my regular customer's cars and show up Sunday to clean it off.

[Te Whetu]

Every Saturday I would go and fling mud and my regular customer's cars and show up Sunday to clean it off.

Work Hard, Play Hard...
Or in this case, Play Hard, Work Hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWHNr0BrNgo

[ari]

Bought some shares in UEB in 1967 from holiday building job savings at the age of 18 and have never been able to break the habit since!

[RGR367]

Just landed in NZ and used my first month salary buying into BNZ at its IPO. And that was not so good an introduction to learn about the Market

[Toulouse - Luzern]

It is interesting from the poll how young most of us were when started with shares.

I was 18.

First year out of school.
In a syndicate.
Decided you needed to invest by yourself so you could enter and exit when you wanted, without meetings.

[Soolaimon]

Bought some shares in UEB in 1967 from holiday building job savings at the age of 18 and have never been able to break the habit since!

I did the same but I was 25 and I added Farmers Trading, Odlins, Dominion Breweries. Then bought when I could afford and held, collecting bonuses, splits etc. I think it was easier then as well. Lucky to unload Robt Jones at the right time to help fund a house.
Advise to younger starters..... Buy and hold for the very long term.

[stoploss]

I bought my first shares sub 10 , my brothers and I hassled dad about getting some shares .... Had to deliver a lot of newspapers to pay for them .From memory Dalhoff & King (sp?) also got some Golden Bay cement shares a few years after that .
Dad wasn't too good on picking them and sadly wasn't around to see his biggest winner come to fruition ( McCollum > Computershare ) Anyway by the time I hit college in the 80's we were all over the oil floats etc .... listening into the radio at lunchtime
to the national program for an update !! Even had a couple of teachers take a keen interest in what we were in .... Suppose the best thing was an early understanding of the market , some losses in 87-90 taught me a lot . Trading/Investing there is always something to learn , some great books out there you can learn a lot from .

[Sideshow Bob]

Debuted at 13. Was either Wilson Neil or BNZ IPO - can't remember the first. Neither were winners but remember selling BNZ at a post 87 crash peak.

University sucked up any spare money, and then the student loan. Got back into it with Sky City Receipts, thinking that a casino in Auckland must be a dead cert. Probably tripled my meagre funds.

[Stumpynuts]

I started buying trading cards and Pogs back in primary school when I was 7-8 years old.

I still have X-men Fleer ultra 95 & 96 full set of each, Oddbodz cards collected from snack chip multi-packs, Ren & Stimpy trading cards, A first edition Transformers comic released 2002/03.

Believe it or not, first generation models of technology will become extremely valuable in 20-30 years time I believe.
First generation video game consoles like Atari, Sega Master System, NES, Gameboy, as well as Apple Mac, iPod, iPhone, Donkey Kong Arcade, Pacman arcade, Street Fighter II, etc.
Even mint condition unopened boxed software such as Window 95. Take for example an E.T atari game cartridge which was deemed one of the worst games released at the time that they were dumped en mass, now 30 odd years later recently dug up in U.S commanding upwards of USD $30k - $40k

They will also have historical value worthy of placement in musuems.