I had just arrived home after another day full of classes, my father who always receivedgreeted me with a warm hug, that day he stayed in his room, after. After a few hours, at dinner time after my sister and I sat down at the table for dinner time. Then, my father announced what happened, he. He had lost a huge amount of his savings in a stock market operation.
This was a remarkable day for me, who at the time, was 12 years old, in. In my innocence, I thought I could help him, it was then, that I decided to start my study to understand what was the stock market was and how I could recover my father's money .
I started to search on the internet, then reading books by Portuguese authors with basic concepts about the stock exchange, over. Over the years, the interest grew more and more,. I have explored some works by international authors related to personal finance and nowadays. Nowadays, I am building my own portfolio of long-term stocks following the methodologies and reading the classics from legends in the investment world such as Benjamin Graham, Warren BuffetBuffett, Peter Lynch, John C. Bogle, George Soros among others.. (my favorite classic was'' the inteligent investor '')was "The Intelligent Investor").
From an early age, I only lived with my father and my sister, however. However, starting from my last year of high school and continuing during my first year ofat a university, my father was going through a very complicated phase of cancer, my. My school career was very affected by that, however. However, this experience, although difficult, made me grow faster and look at life differently,. I became more responsible, more positive, with a huge determinationmore determined to overcome barriers, and extremely focused on my goals.