Stock Trading Goes Full Sci-Fi

I bought my first stock when I was 17, almost 18. My father had to open the stock portfolio. because I wasn’t fully capable of doing business. This was April 1993, two months before my 18th birthday. At that time it was very complicated to buy and trade stocks as a “normal” private person. A heart transplant was easier, I think. But the advantage was that I asked my bank to procure these shares as “effective pieces”, which was a big effort, organizationally and financially. It still exists: “Henkel KGaA” and hangs on my wall next to the desk.