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Nov 21, 2024
9:55:10am

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Nobody ever went broke taking a gain!

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creameryon9th

Bio page: creameryon9th
Joined: Jul 28, 2015
Last login: Nov 21, 2024
Total posts: 8,454 (695 FO)

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Messages

Author

Time

What's your worst stock market mistake worth sharing

DataMouth

9:36am

Similar to yours. I’ve sold too early far too often.

TarCoug

9:38am

Not pushing everything on the table as soon as the Covid rebound started.

CasualFan

9:39am

Not buying Monster stock in the early 2000s when a family member told me to buy it. It's the best performing stock over

slappy

9:39am

Buying individual stocks and not using money managers .

BYU71

9:41am

Global Crossing

airbug

9:43am

Ha! When they declared bankruptcy and went to the pink sheets, I bought like 2,000 shares at like $.05 each

Skeptical Optimist

9:46am

End of 2022, NVDA was trading at $300. Rather than spending ~$10k on 30 shares, I decided to go

Skeptical Optimist

9:44am

Rivian

snowbird

9:47am

Not really Stock Market, but my brother is a finance professor and in 2018

momowagon

9:48am

I was at a VC conference in Silicon Valley in 2018 and having a very similar

UNLVcougar

9:51am

I had a former coworker try to convince me to set up a Bitcoin mine once.

OrsoNero

9:58am

in the very early days of Bitcoin, I set up my computer to mine because I

g$

9:59am

I was considering buying 100 bitcoin when it was at $1000. Passed due to risk 🙁

Hoopster

10:02am

You were going to buy $100k of bitcoin? Wow, that's definitely a committed

UNLVcougar

2:06pm

Yes, I was. I had $100k making only 4%. I seriously considered Bitcoin at $1000

Hoopster

3:29pm

My brother told me about bitcoin when they cost pennies each. I could have put $100 in and that would have been worth

vegasnative

10:15am

My BIL convinced my whole family to buy like 10k worth of stock.

SLC-Durham

9:53am

Sold what would now be 2000 shares of NVDA in March 2023.

squidmark

9:54am

Nobody ever went broke taking a gain!

9:55am

I had about 8K in Amazon stock when the market cap was ~2.5B.

OrsoNero

9:57am

Not buying GE when it was selling for about $8 or $10, not buying the Maui

Rocketman

9:57am

Not buying more Tesla than I did.

10:01am

This is one of the best from Conan

10:01am

Rivian hands down.

yapacoug

10:04am

Received a chunk of stock when Accenture went public, sold for $40K for house

compcoug

10:12am

Last year I sold 1200 NRG shares at 52.00 and its currently trading 96.23...

Nuke

10:23am

Bought SKYW after covid $20/share. Sold it around $40. 😩

banksters

11:10am

I thought FB IPO’d at somewhere between $90-$115. I know it dropped some after

Superman21

11:26am

I saw an opportunity to invest in a struggling company. I noticed a

Superman21

11:30am

Losing a few bitcoin

cougarBee

11:32am

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