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If you are, make sure you use a separate account from your investment as your tax will become a nightmare like mine.

Orca - it only becomes a tax issue if you sell within 3 years, what I do is use the funds to get into the market and then pay down my bond and o/d from my pension, LA, and interest on my FD

Well jaDEB my only suggestion to you is buy more of these shares when your next R 100,000 becomes available in just over a weeks time - averaging seems to be the only way out of your hole (no pun intended)  

Wowee - I see Patrick got to the top of the heap

I see the Top 40 closed at 36322.20 which is still a way off their all time high of 36515.31 achieved on 11/02/2013 and that the All Share closed at 41014.98 which is just below what I have as an all time high of 41047.72 per 14/03/2013 so our markets are pumping.

I think some people took profits today and they will come back into the market just before LDT to buy up more shares and then reap the dividend

I too have had bitter experiences with RA's, particularly when you come to extending its maturity date, the costs are horrendous. My Old Mutual RA gave me a 5.5% internal rate of return over some 22 years which was ludicrous. I cashed out and moved my funds into a Coronation Top 20 Fund - even with my minimum drawings of 2.5% quarterly ( +/- R 2000 per quarter) the fund has grown by over R 35,000 in 16 months.
I think it is important that you look at your debt and what interest rate you are paying - I for example have a better interest rate on my overdraft than on my bond so when I want to buy shares I fund it across my overdraft in preference to my bond account. Also keeping money on a money market account gives you such a poor return,maybe what you need to look at is how often you dip into your MM account and if you can take a large percentage out of the account and invest in say a 6 month FD. Current interest a rates are about 5% but if you have a parent over 60 get them to invest for you as you could get  1/2 % extra or take it to Capitec for a better interest rate. Personally I would never use an investment advisor unless you can find one over 55 who has experienced some financial difficulties in live and I don't mean debt, but experience in turbulent markets etc

yip..... and in the past 6 months, only R130k of their shares have been traded - 6MONTHS!

I have an order on to sell some of my Cashbuild shares and the price asking is R 135 (currently R 122.80) but during the auction someone purchased 2 of my offered shares - why I don't know but whoever it was made my sale hugely expensive as I got R 270 but incurred R 92.70 as a minimum brokerage charge. So yes there are some very stupid operators out in the market, who don't look at the all in costs before doing a deal 

I would think that if the Reserve Bank does cut interest rates at the next Monetary Policy meeting that a substantial portion of funds which could have gone to bonds and fixed investments with banks will go to fund managers and other investors directly into the stock market. So I think we will continue to see the overall indices ticking up and then pulling back for a breather and then carrying on. Buffet is reported seeing the Dow getting to 16,000 to 17,000 by year end - that still significant growth to come