I'm curious,who?

HATE SPEECH!!!!!

We are all equal Kenyans regardless of how one became Kenyan...

I must stay in my country and cast my vote for Peter Kenneth and continue my "anti jubilee" campaign as it has been branded!

Good to know u r not amongst the guys selling of HFCK and painting the market RED.

BTW, this was not meant to be a political comment. I was just trying to look for the relationship between the reported jam at the JKIA and the sell off at the NSE.

Well, I can almost tell that Wazua has developed a great investment syllabus,from which any person thirsting for free investment knowledge can read and benefit.

@SittingPretty, I just saw this thread. Here's my two-pennies worth...

Nice to hear that you're still interested in investing after only 8 months (I think you said your first investment was in Feb 2013?)! Please take all the advice you can get (Kenyan "Investment Banks", Wazua, friends, family) and also invest time in online research. Then figure out what works best for you, but always look at the underlying nature of the companies you invest in, the industries, the economy, etc. It's your hard earned cheese, so don't let anything other than an informed decision guide you in how you invest it.

Conventional wisdom suggests that a long term investment in a well researched portfolio will always beat out a speculative short-term investment. Short term would mean holding an investment for anything less than a year, except, of course, if exceptional circumstances dictate otherwise. Getting in and out of the market the way you're suggesting puts you in the league of the speculative investor.

Please note that - in my humble opinion - there are no real indigenous investment banking houses in Kenya at the moment (assuming you would want to support a Kenyan business rather than an imported one). There are a few indigenous stockbrokers who have been given (or have bought) Investment Banking licenses, but this doesn't make them true investment banking houses.

An investment banking house makes its real money by trading on its own book, not by making commissions on its customer's account or giving transaction advice. All the indigenous investment banking houses continue to behave like stockbrokers and transaction advisors despite the hugely expensive licenses that they hold. CMA is largely to blame for this because they should specify what an investment bank does - but that's a whole other story for another time and day.

This begs the question - why not separate their stockbroking and advisory services and get separate licenses? It would be cheaper for them and they could really shine as stockbrokers, making bigger margins than as "Investment Banks"... but then again, they would not have the prestige of the moniker, eh?

Anyway, please think of building a portfolio based on the fundamentals of the target counter companies. And don't forget to diversify into debt instruments and other investment vehicles (e.g., the Kenyan favourite - property).