Adrian Reid recounts his first exposure to the stock market as a child (about 8–9 years old) when his family played a board game called the "stock market game" on holiday. The game—played for hours with his brother and father, occasionally his mother—sparked his long-term interest in markets and later motivated him to teach his own children about investing. He later felt emotional when his mother rediscovered the game during a visit to Singapore and returned it to him.
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About 8–9 years old.
Singapore.
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When we were kids, we didn't really talk much about investments as a family. But one thing that I do remember very early on, when I was about 8 or 9, we were on a family holiday and we played this game. I actually found the game that we played was called the stock market game.
This was one of my earliest memories of the stock market. And I really loved that game. I loved it because it was so much fun. It was dynamic. There's a lot of moving parts. The market went up and the market went down and you had to choose when to buy the different types of stocks in order to buy and sell and make money.
When I was a kid of about 8 or 9, I remember playing that game. We did it for hours. Now, as my brother, myself, my dad, sometimes my mom played, but mostly was the boys in the family. And we play it. We talk a little bit about the stock market and ask questions, and dad could answer some of them, but not others. But really just playing that game developed a little bit of awareness and a love for the dynamics in the movement in the market. That was my first experience of the stock market. But it wasn't for years after that until I actually got seriously interested in learning about how to invest and how to trade and, and how to actually make money for real in the stock market. But, you know, one of the, one of the lessons that I took from that, because, you know, that game really gave me a love for the markets. And, you know, when I found it, it was a really emotional moment for me. My mom was looking through the, the attic at her house and she dug out all this old stuff and she found that game and she, she rang me and showed me, look, you know, look what I found. And for me, it was like one of those.
Moments of.
Nostalgia. Teared up a little bit and remembered the fun times playing the game. What it really taught me was that you're never too young to develop an interest or help your kids. The kids are never too young to develop an interest in investing in the stock market. So I found that game, or mum found that game rather, and gave it to me. She came on a trip to visit us when we were in Singapore and brought the game and showed us. And that really just gave me the impetus to want to teach my kids, teach them about trading, but also just open their eyes to investing and the stock market and all of that, because I was only young when I had a first exposure to it, and it really captured my imagination.
