Wallstreet Heroes is a Cape Town market literacy project. We run Saturday workshops in Woodstock, after-school clubs and a plain-language blog for students and first-time earners. No stock tips, no signal groups, no promises of quick money. Just the basics: reading a share price, why diversification matters, how inflation eats savings, and how to budget on a first salary.
New to all of this? Start with reading a share price without the jargon before you commit to anything.
Three pieces from the Wallstreet Heroes blog that pair well with a first Saturday session. They cover the parts of a listing page people skip, what inflation does to a starter salary, and how to tell a long-term plan from a loud pitch. No signals, no shortcuts, just the groundwork.
Written by the same facilitators who run the Woodstock workshops and the after-school clubs.
Blog
Last traded price, bid and ask, day range, volume. Why a low number per share says nothing about whether a company is cheap, and how to match a quote to the business behind it using a public annual report.
Open the breakdownBlog
A monthly budget followed through twelve months of moderate price growth. Where the shortfall lands first, and why saving that only matches inflation is not really saving. Ends with a one-page comparison worksheet.
Read the walkthroughBlog
Urgency, screenshots instead of documents, no mention of what can go wrong. A short checklist for spotting speculation dressed up as advice, and what long-term holding actually asks of you.
See the checklistPrefer to start with people in the room? The weekend sessions in Woodstock and the online cohort both run through the same modules, and each one closes with a practical exercise on a real company report.
Wallstreet Heroes started as one borrowed classroom in Woodstock and a stack of printed annual reports. The dates below mark the points where the programme changed shape, usually because the people in the room asked for something we had not planned.
Eleven attendees, one whiteboard and a single question on the table: what does the number next to a company name actually mean? We spent the full two hours on share price quotes and ran out of time before budgeting.
Weekly Thursday sessions for Grade 10 and 11 learners. The format shifted to short modules, each closing with a printed extract from a public company report and a written answer, not a quiz.
After too many questions about signal groups, we built a session on spotting urgency, screenshots and missing downsides. It now runs before any discussion of holding periods, and facilitators are instructed not to name specific shares.
A six-week evening group for people in their first job, covering inflation against a real monthly budget and why a paycheque buys less by December. Analysts and accountants joined as facilitators alongside the teachers.
The free workbook collects the exercises used in class: reading a listing page, comparing a budget across twelve months, and writing down what could go wrong before committing anything. It is designed to be finished before the first rand moves.
Next step
The Woodstock workshop runs every second Saturday morning, roughly two hours, and you leave with a marked-up annual report in your bag and a short list of questions to ask about any company you are curious about. No account needed, no prior reading required. If the room is full, the online cohort covers the same module.
Not ready to sit in a room yet? Start with Reading a Share Price Without the Jargon and bring your questions along.