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Jerry Mononela - How to invest in the stock market | South Africa

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  I’m Jerry Mononela from South Africa. I have 15 years of experience in the stock market. I’m sharing with you the best tips for “How to invest in the stock market”. I’m revealing my best six tips which help you to understand the stock market investment strategy. Investing in stocks is an excellent way for wealthy growth. Investment secures the present and future long term finance. Investment means making your money work for you. A stock or you can say equity is a security that speaks to the ownership of a particular portion of a Corporations. This entitles the proprietor of the stock to the extent of the company's benefits and benefits equivalent to how much stock they own. Every unit of stock is called “Shares”. Stocks are purchased and sold dominatingly on stock trades, however there can be private deals also, and are the establishment of numerous individual speculators' portfolios. These exchanges need to adjust to government guidelines which are intended to shield specula

How The South African Stock Market Crash Can Affect You

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The South African stock market was already in shambles before the spread of the Coronavirus, but due to the president declaring a nationwide lockdown to curb COVID-19 cases in the country, the stock market in our country suffered an expected but still terrible blow.  H e South African All-Share index JSE/FTSE was having difficulty rising in the market since 1997 and slowed down tremendously in 2008 because of the global financial crisis, but it fell a whopping 11% in Johannesburg, the steepest fall recorded in the last decade. Naspers, South Africa’s largest stock also fell 11% and had the most impact on our market. Richemont also fell 12%, confirming everyone’s fear about the country’s struggling economy going into an ultimate meltdown.  It is interesting however to note that the South African stock market is not the only one that’s struggling in the pandemic. The United States Of America (USA) has officially gone into recession and experts suggest that top economies in the world in

What Is An Angel Investor & How To Get One For Your Startup

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  Suppose you have an idea that you think could change the world, and bring you and your partners a lot of money at the same time. So you start a company based around that idea and develop your product further. But after some time you realize that as much as the company is yours and you are willing to work on it till the world’s end, you alone don’t have the resources to give a proper physical form to your idea. So instead of feeling dejected and giving up, you bring in a person who has the resources to bail you out of your fix. This person is called an Angel Investor. The first round of raising capital that helps you build up your company from scratch and bring it into the real world is called the Angel round of investment. And as the name suggests, an Angel Investor is someone who invests in you in this Angel round. The reason why the term ‘Angel’ is used instead of something like ‘the first investor’ is that most venture capitalists are reluctant in investing in companies during

How To Invest In the South African Stock Market During The Pandemic By Jerry Mononela

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Investing your hard-earned money is a risk that is scary in normal life, but much more so in a global onset of a killer disease. The Coronavirus has impacted businesses and companies both huge and tiny alike. A lot of people have lost their jobs and large corporations are undergoing downsizing. So where do you stand in such a volatile market, a person looking to invest their savings, hoping to get a decent return? Naturally, the first thought that would come to your mind in the yesteryears of Corona would be to invest your money in various firms that have comparatively low risk and higher return rates, right? Well, what if I told you that the same thought process is still valid in a pandemic? Some of the most common mistakes that people make while investing are: Not knowing enough about the industry they want to be involved in. Not assorting their investments properly. Not assorting their investments at all.  So the first thing you have got to learn is the market you want to invest i

JERRY MONONELA - Introduction to Stock Markets

Share Trading Basics   Introduction: Owning shares is one of the greatest tools to wealth creation you can find. Shares, apart from owning fixed property, should form the cornerstone of any investment portfolio. You do however need a firm understanding of the stock market basics before dipping your toes (and your money) into the sea of opportunity which is the stock market. It is like having a business but not having to show up at work. The interest of the average Joe has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. This can be attributed to the flow (mostly freely accessible ) of information on economic affairs and stock specific news. What was once a toy of the wealthy has now turned into the vehicle of choice for wealth creation. Technological advances has put the opportunity of trading the stock markets at your fingertips wherever you might be.   What are shares? A share is simply what it’s name suggests - you share in the ownership of a company. It re