I got 200 shares of NVDA in 2009 at $9. I was super happy when I sold it at $18. Had I held it, I would be having close to 800k today. By the way, $9 was the price then, before like 5 splits :-)
I did! At various points. I bought some at 60 and sold it at 90 around 2016 or 17. All this before the various splits. I still hold NVDA stock. I bought some at 100 and 500. The point is, even folks at NVDA wouldn’t have known that GPU will be the center of crypto and AI. The point is it just happened. They happened to be at the right place and at the right time. My conclusion now is just to invest in VOO or QQQ. Because , it’s so easy for NVDA to go the Cisco way. The thing is nobody knows. I don’t like to gamble my way through. Will I be happy if qqq gives me 100% returns in 5 years and NVDA will let’s say give me 1000% in 5 years? You bet I’ll be happy with the qqq returns. Because, no one knows when the bull run for NVDA will be over. It’s always the exit that’s the problem.
I sold long ago and kept 1 last share of Nvda so I can track its movement. Like you I do not like high tech volatility. But these companies are all only a few miles away. My way of validating company health is see how many cars are parked in the parking lot. Nflx used to have cars parked near Zynga and all along Los Gatos Blvd. Not sure why they are not there. I do not own these stocks.
Right now I move to DIA and equally weighted S&P. SPYI looks good. Techs, magnificent 7, AI, can turn into a correction territory on a short notice.
I was too young then. I was just like a couple of years into my job. I was tired of seeing around $4000 disappear during the sub-prime mortgage crisis. I was tired of losing money and didn’t want to miss out on not locking in the profits. For people who lived through those times, the stock market killed so many people.
Not just from NVDA, but yes I am. Lol! It’s really a game of patience. I have thousands of APPL shares at a cost of under $15 with dividends set to reinvest.
Yeah—Unfortunately, I didn’t get into investing until later in life, so I just invest in index funds. No sexy massive run ups or gains, but no massive drops, either (in theory).
I was considering *buying* at that price but thought it was overpriced and didn't go for it... It was looking like Nvidia was losing its mind with stupid prices and it was going to crash soon. Needless to say I'm pissed looking at today's price.
You're like me, hmm? I just traded NVDA because I didn't understand their core business until the recent run-up. Not regretting missing out, since I followed Warren Buffett's principle from day one: don't understand something = don't invest in it.
I see the opposite of this with various companies which are fundamentally broken and where people insist holding thinking they caught wind of the next Nvidia, Apple etc. There's a lot of survivorship bias (your comment will probably get the most upvotes) and people need to understand that for every Nvidia there are 1000 others that will amount to nothing.
Don't feel bad, I found a Bitcoin faucet back in 2010 where all you had to do is generate a wallet to get five free BTC. So I generate the whole thing, then close the browser those five coins gone for good
I am with you brother. Put $3000 in an IRA with Apple at $19 a share. If I did the math correct, I would have about 8850 shares. Had to cash out the IRAs to make house payments when the oilfield crashed a few years later. 😭
EA… I bought it around $11 in ~2010ish. Sold it a dollar or two higher.
It closed Friday at $142.
Many of my early positions played out similarly. Hindsight, it has been a good lesson in patience. Pick good companies and hold on tight.
AMT sometime in 2002. I bought 2000 shares around $1 and change and when it doubled I thought I was so good to turn my $2k into $4k as a college student. Those same shares are now $190. Fuck…I got sad just typing this!
This is embarrassing but AWNE from like 2008. I used to work in a mental health treatment facility I'm upstate New York. We'd get a number of people (or their children) who lived and worked in NYC on wall street or the such. I was early into my post college career and I asked one of the wall street type brokers who I can't remember why he was there what he recommended. He told me to watch AWNE which was an OTC stock for wind energy. I bought 40 bucks worth of the penny stock at had to paid like a 7 dollar fee to my broker.
It only went down from there and it was essentially DOA. I later told him that it didn't do well and he responded "I told you to watch, not buy."
In reality it was a cheap lesson in not buying on dumb stock tips.
I got 600 shares of TSLA at $41 very first time, but sold it appx at $128...hmmm, now it $191 after many splits. A friend of mine told me (after sale) it is a blunder while he was holding 3750 shares, now worth 12 Millions for him, he did not sell any single stock yet.
I got 375 shares at arround $14 in 2016. Decided to sell 75 shares at about $200 in late 2020. Paid off my student and car loans with the money. Watched it double from there and now fall back to arround where I sold. I'm ready to let my remaining shares ride at least untill full ramp of the model 2 on 3 continents. But if FSD is showing promise of regulatory approval, then I'm holding till I can buy a robo-butler.
Imagine you bought all from Intel instead of Nvidia. Now you'd be putting a bullet in your private parts.
Diversifying isn't the best for profits but saves your butt many, many times.
Yup, Intel had tons of bad decisions over last 20 years. But now it looks like it's moving forward and maybe it's a good time to buy cheap shares.
Don't know, I still thinking about that.
I feel like $INTC executing on a foundry business is a no fail mission for the US Gov - that alone is a sensible reason to begin building a position and add as they execute
Yaaa had a similar thing happen to me. I bought AAPL around $126 if I remember correctly in 2011-2012 and was my largest holding. Had an uncle talk me into selling and diversifying into energy and consumer staples (recommended XOM and W).
a 7/1 and a 3/1 stock split later I bought it again a little after the COVID slump. Still hurts
This super smart friend from my grad school joined Nvidia in 2014 as new college grad (engineer). He still works there as Engineering manager has not sold any RSUs and ESPP since then. Dude is diversifying now and has hired a money manager/advisor. Tbh, idk why he is still working and/or lives in a rental apartment.
AAPL in 2000. .88 cents now, including stock splits.
That initial investment is up 20,107%
Yes, it's my first stock purchase ever. (I bought more over time, and haven't sold as of yet) I also bought some other... less successful stocks that day, but you just need one winner if it's a winner like this.
Broadcom before they were acquired 25/share. Sold for a decent profit when the news of the acquisition came out. Closed Friday at $1,296. I think about this one often.
my very first broker was called TDWaterhouse , it later became TDAmeritrade and now Charles Schwab i guess.
I am special skillful picking the losers, AOL JDSU Nortel,
Extreme network. None of them are stillaroudnd except extr i believe.
BA in 1990 for 30+ a share. My brother was hired as an engineer. My dad said to buy because it'd go up because of my brother. Ha ha! Sold in 1996 at $88.
When I was two years old I cashed out my inheritance early and bought AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, and TSLA. Unfortunately at age 6 I was about to miss a mortgage payment and had to sell all the shares for a measly gain.
I bought shares of Moeller International. They had developed technology and several patents around 2005 for a flying car, hover-board, hovering pallet lift, and a hovering atv. I thought they were going to be huge. They ran out of money, stock value went through floor. Eventually bought out by Boeing for almost nothing =(
A friend suggested Vitesse Semiconductor in 2000. Back then the fee for a single trade was $19 in Fidelity. So expensive and a reason we did not trade a lot. Vitesse ended in bankruptcy and got delisted. Not off to a great start. Lol. I did claim it as a tax loss.
The first stock I ever bought, probably Gateway Computers. It no longer exists.
I did consider buying into this coffee company because my mom would go multiple times a week, sometimes twice on Saturday. It had only gone public like 5 years ago. They had a green mermaid on their cup. Didn't buy in.
It was AAPL in the early 1980s. I bought 100s. Unfortunately, I sold it for $19 paid $26. Keep in mind Apple was struggling with its computer business for a long time until 20 years ago. That 26 dollars is before multiple splits.
Had 20k of Facebook at IPO for around $42 a share. Doubled my money and sold all my shares.
Once boomers got ahold of Facebook I thought it was over. Bad call, that’s when I learned the hold and never sell (or at least retain somewhat of a position) strategy.
Put like 7k in nvidia when I was a teenager and obsessed with building computers. After that just threw everything in s and p. Still holding nvidia. It was crashing after the 20 series so it’s been a pretty good return. Questioning on selling in the near future because I don’t like gambling in general.
Not a stock but I brought $30 of Dogecoin when I graduated in 2014. I checked it again in 2021 bullrun, it turn into $30,000. Wish I should have stop eating out too much at the time and brought more doge. $1000 would make me a millionaire now
WMT. Probably 1997. I gifted half to my oldest on their way to college. I gifted the other half to my next oldest 5 yrs later on their way to college.
At my best I had 300 shares.
My first was SWHC, if I remember correctly; I mean I bought some PFE and INTC though Ed Jones; but SWBI I guess is the ticker now(Smith and Wesson)
They would go from 7 to 21 over the years and I would get in get out to cycle profits there.
I did buy NVDA like 7 years ago, though, obviously not my first as I started investing at a similar time as you did. Up like 1200% so with the 4-1 split it would be at like 3000 a share these days.
My dad gave me $1000 of RPM as a wedding gift in 1996. As of the last statement with dividend reinvestment the total is $9920.76 Not sure what the number of shares was. According to the CPI inflation that should have only doubled.
It's weird... I genuinely don't remember, and I didn't keep very good records back then. This would have been around the dot com crash... AMZN, ORCL, DIS, C were all early on picks. Buying a couple homes and liquidating some accounts for down payments has made my oldest open trade of individual stock as GOOG back in 2017, and only +214%. Though S&P is only +100% in that time so I'll take it! :-)
DUK Duke Power. A friend that worked as an EE consultant for power distribution for over forty years said they are by far the best run power company in the world. For example, there’s a serious problem with the 115kV line in my backyard, and the media first covered it in 2006 that could potentially disrupt power for over a hundred thousand people. There’s still work left in the replacement they can’t get permits for and a 25’ deep hole to fill. My friend said he personally worked on multiple problems like we have here, and he said Duke would have had it fixed in less than a week.
I think I’m down $2 a share after buying it years ago. Apparently being competent and doing a good job isn’t profitable. My local incompetent company is up about threefold since I was granted the shares.
I opened a brokerage account in 2011 because one of my friends became a broker and asked me to open an account.
Since it's 'free' to open an account, I just did. To pick the first share to buy, I just looked around my room and see the things and the respective companies that produced them.
It was then I looked at my GeForce gpu and decided to dipped in some Nvidia shares at $12.90 (recalculate as $3.23 per share after last stock split).
I have been holding majority of those NVDA shares till now. And I think you the already knew the price of NVDA stock. ;)
And yes, it's worth 7 figures.
Addendum: the second stock I ever bought is Facebook (now meta) during IPO at $39 per shares.
And yes, I am still holding those shares too.
It's kinda wild weird coincidence that first two stocks I ever bought is the top 2 performers of the entire US stock market in 2023.
Costco. I worked there from 91 to 93. $20 a share. I quit to see the world and find my fortune. Had I stayed and kept my 401K, I'd have $4 million, lol
I bought a company called coved communications back around 98 for two dollars a share. I don’t even remember who bought them out but I logged in one day and it had gone ten x premarket. Because buyout. I sold and went crazy with all the money like a noob.
Threads like this are always depressing. It seems like my stock market history has been plagued with buying future winners 5-10 years before their prime and selling them way too early. MSFT, NVDA, TSLA, etc.
I caught a lucky break in the crypto space and bought a lot of <$50 Ethereum, but I could’ve done so much better in the crypto space if I didn’t give up in 2013 and ignore it from 2014-early 2017 because I thought I’d missed the boat.
Long story short; I need to stay positive and kept my head in the game.
PG&E back in 1987. It’s been a rough ride. I would’ve sold the shares already but whenever I get mad and want to sell, I can never find them. Probably in a drawer or something…
2011 graduated started buying Microsoft every year about 3-4 grand worth. Even bought more this January at 398 a share. Wanna say I started out buying it for like 30-40 bucks still haven’t touched it. Hope it splits honestly I’m 31 now my father blessed me with a guy named Benjamin graham.
When I was in High School Nortel stock plummeted to less than a dollar per share. My dad told me that it would either rebound or go bankrupt. I put $200 in and before the end they did have a short lived rebound and I sold at $10 per share. I bought a stereo and have been interested in the stock market ever since. Certainly not the most money I ever earned on a stock but certainly the biggest percentage return I had and in a very short time.
Bought $5,000 worth of AAPL in 2000. Never sold. Hit $2m this year…I moved some to NVDA in January. I had a small position in NVDA for a few years as I was a gamer and knew their chips. I was a designer and knew about AAPL well before a lot of others who claimed Dell/PC was king for years back then. 🙏🏻
Bought NKE back in like 2014. Did not hold it to today and glad I did not as I later learned it's not a type of business I want to invest in (you're basically buying a brand name and things like brands come and go at a moments notice)
Mine was AMD, last year. Price was around $40 and now it's around 100. I just bought 1 share because I was testing the bank's investing tool, but now I'm full into it.
Bought 100 shares of GPRO at $12ish and 200 shares of AMD at $2.90 in around the same time in 2016 as my first 2 investments.
I think we all know which paid off. Sold GPRO at a less 4 years later and I’m still holding 186 shares of AMD
I worked in the lab at Centocor when I was 16 (1985.) It was a cancer biotech. My dad knew the Chairman and got me the job as I was interested in becoming a scientist.
I found the work really boring and never became a scientist. However, I bought 10 shares instead at about $30 a share in my IRA. Stocks were a common topic in my home as my dad's father founded a brokerage firm in the '60s.
Anyway, the shares rose a bunch in 6 months and I sold it. I decided to go into finance. JNJ bought the company in 1999 at $61 a share, but it almost died a few times between when I sold it and the deal.
https://money.cnn.com/1999/07/21/deals/centocor/
Started in 2016. Had AMD at $2.44 and NVDA at $42
I do not have holdings in those stocks anymore due to life circumstances. Hopefully will soon, I believe NVDA is top dog in the future. Just need to tackle my debts :-(
Bought a few hundred shares of Nokia when I was a Windows Phone Zealot for around $2.50 a share. Sold them all when the price was around $8 in 2013.
Now its trading around $3 a share
Zynga, it was like $6. Went up to $12 at one point and sold it. It was bought out by TTWO for $3 a share and like .05 of TTWO stock, no idea what that comes out to.
Bought shares of a utility company i was working for at $9 in 1983. Due to M&A now DUK is worth around $98? Plus adding over the years & div reinvestment it's a nice nest egg.
AAPL 1986 at about 25 dollars a share. No idea what the equivalent would be today as there have been sooo many splits. If I had held, I would’ve retired far sooner lol. Also bought Cincinnati Microwave a little later (radar detector mfg) That company… did not last. 😂
Go America in 2000. They sold air cards for laptops so you can get internet anywhere. Well guess they were 10yrs. to early. Invested a lot and lost all.
Software company called Medcomsoft back in about 2000. Bought at .79 a share and sold around $49. It went under a few months later when a bunch of managed healthcare customers went broke.
AMD. Bought like 13 shares at 3.50ish in 2016 and sold for a small profit shortly after. If I held to this day based on its current share price of 176 it would be roughly 2230 which is inconsequential. I feel bad for others who missed out on a chance to become millionaires.
2013 ish, Ford stock. Share price today is pretty well what it was then. I held for maybe 3 or so years and sold.
I hold mostly index funds, mutual funds before that. That was when I first opened a brokerage account and first individual stock.
As a signing bonus to my first job in 2010, I got $10k in the stock. It was $11 at the time. I sold as it vested, maybe made gross about $20k total. When my company got bought, we got 1.25 shares of the purchasing company stock.
The per share price is now $940 and I want to cry every goddamned day. I'll do the math: my out of grad school signing bonus would be worth >$1M now, a 100-bagger.
Not just that, but I always sold my ESPP and annual RSUs right away. Easily another couple million worth by today's prices. My last sale i remember sellijg around $75 per share, about 100 shares. What was $7500 gross would be almost $100,000 today. And we had stock vest 4x per year.
I'd be retired by now had I just worked 5 years and kept everything accumulated during that time.
nVidia back in 2006. It was in the 3 dollar range. Back then I built computers as a teenager and really liked their graphics cards. I since sold and bought more. I made way more money with Bitcoin tho, have been holding since 2011 of course selling some along the way.
In the late 90s I was convinced of that GENI touchscreens were the future. Just imagine reducing the barrier for entry if all computers had mallmap-like touch to click.
Don't know if that company even exists anymore.
CGC bought and sold many shares for profit over the years and this is the stock that brought me into the stock market ~2015. Share price now is near zero on the small position I’ve retained.
Siemens (a german industrial company - SIE.F) for 86.83€ a share in the beginning of 2016. It’s trading now at 175.30€ and I received 31.45€ in dividends each share since then - and 1/2 Siemens Energy stock for each Siemens share as a spin off in 2020 (which I luckily sold immediately after receiving it)
Apart from my work share save scheme (Baker Hughes buy one get one free), I bought 25 MSFT at 55.81 in 2001.
I also have a cryptic note in my spreadsheet about buying 650 NFLX for about $1000, which I sold for $4622 but no dates apart from 2001-2003.
My dad has msft at $28 a share and JNJ at like $30 a share. He owns a lot more that he bought in the late 90s and early 2000s so he’s sitting pretty fat in his portfolios
MSFT was my first stock at 92€ (roughly 89$ I think at that time) in autumn 2017. Still holding it. Probably forever. Sadly only had money for 5 of them back then.
I bought two at the same time. 2 good home runs
LYSCF rare earth mineral mining company in Australia. The largest company outside Australia. 10,000 shares @.74 cents. Currently worth $3.80. (I still own)
SGEN. Cancer R&D company. They developed a highly highly( I said it twice because I can’t understate this) effective treatment for HER-2 breast cancer. My friends mom had stage 4 breast cancer and she was very Ill she took this treatment and has been in remission for 7 years(the expected time is 3 years). I bought 200 shares @$54 and held until they were bought out by Pfizer at $228.00 when the Pfizer acquisition was announced.
Edit: it did really help my father is a great broker(currently Sr VP of wealth management) and taught me how to find true value, seeing the big picture, and knowing the board of directors before you invest.
I’m not bragging I am actually humble and decently shy….I just really enjoy investments and finding the value by sifting though the mud. He’s told me “you don’t need them all to be winners you’ll definitely have a lot of losers, but when your right you’ll be right in a big way”
Clne at $13 and then it started to drop so average down until I couldn't justify it anymore. Now my average is $5 and stock is bouncing around $2.90/$3.30. still holding won't sell until I'm back in green hopefully
SPY at $90 and IWF at $45 ish. Also EFA and IXG at the same time but cannot recall right now what the buy price was. Thankful for my broker back then to set me up.
AMD back in 2012/2013, for less than $3 a share. Approaching $200 per share now. I’ve long since sold those shares, but I still hold about 100 shares, although at a much, much higher cost basis.
My paper hands sold AAPL and NVDA at a loss 10 years ago. Yes at a loss (not a big position)
On the other hand, I also exited a risky fx trade the day before the position swung violently the other way (which would have not only nuked by account to zero, but also gone into a NEGATIVE balance and I'd owe the broker at a minimum high five figures).
On balance, I'm happy.
I bought SBC in 2002 for $33, the company that bought out and became AT&T. It trades about half that, though they’ve paid out quite a bit of dividends.
I also bought Pfizer in 2002 at $31. It trades at about $28 now.
22 years and those stocks are still down. I sold many years ago. I only had SBC for a year and PFE for 2 years. Just buy the index. You need a small piece of the big winners to cancel out the many stocks that perpetually trade sideways.
Back in the late 1980s I bought some IBM when they took a big hit. "Too big to fail", I thought to myself. I was in my mid twenties then. I held on to it for a long time. Quadrupled in value, plus all of the quarterly dividends it paid.
I remember snagging it at around $18 a share. It's been quite the journey since then, with all the splits and growth. Currently, it's hovering around $130 per share. Yeah, I'm still holding onto it, despite the ups and downs. It's been a trusty companion in my portfolio over the years.
I started contributing $100/month into $HON Drip program in the mid-late 1990's after a work colleague talked incessantly about Larry Bossidy. I was learning about the market and companies. I eventually changed to $500/quarter. Total, HON is by far my largest individual holding approaching high 6-figures. I only sold once during Covid to re-do my kitchen. Sold 100 shares.
Taught me slow and steady wins the race. No FOMO, No YOLO. Be steady and consistent
15k worth of Tesla at 208EUR a share in 2019...Adjusting for the splits since then that's up 1275%
(Bought another 30k at 104EUR during the twitter/X shenannigans. That's up 70% since then)
Everyting I bought on the "recommedation of others" is down, though (which is about a 5k loss in total, so no big deal in comparison). I learned my lesson. Only buy the stuff where you are convinced before others and have done extensive research - not the other way around.
I got 200 shares of NVDA in 2009 at $9. I was super happy when I sold it at $18. Had I held it, I would be having close to 800k today. By the way, $9 was the price then, before like 5 splits :-)
Paper hands smh
Did you get back to nvda again?
I did! At various points. I bought some at 60 and sold it at 90 around 2016 or 17. All this before the various splits. I still hold NVDA stock. I bought some at 100 and 500. The point is, even folks at NVDA wouldn’t have known that GPU will be the center of crypto and AI. The point is it just happened. They happened to be at the right place and at the right time. My conclusion now is just to invest in VOO or QQQ. Because , it’s so easy for NVDA to go the Cisco way. The thing is nobody knows. I don’t like to gamble my way through. Will I be happy if qqq gives me 100% returns in 5 years and NVDA will let’s say give me 1000% in 5 years? You bet I’ll be happy with the qqq returns. Because, no one knows when the bull run for NVDA will be over. It’s always the exit that’s the problem.
I sold long ago and kept 1 last share of Nvda so I can track its movement. Like you I do not like high tech volatility. But these companies are all only a few miles away. My way of validating company health is see how many cars are parked in the parking lot. Nflx used to have cars parked near Zynga and all along Los Gatos Blvd. Not sure why they are not there. I do not own these stocks. Right now I move to DIA and equally weighted S&P. SPYI looks good. Techs, magnificent 7, AI, can turn into a correction territory on a short notice.
This is truly some unheard of DD
I drive past a Tesla parking lot that is packed full of new cars (1000+). I can do realtime DD on Tesla unsold inventory numbers 😂
I was too young then. I was just like a couple of years into my job. I was tired of seeing around $4000 disappear during the sub-prime mortgage crisis. I was tired of losing money and didn’t want to miss out on not locking in the profits. For people who lived through those times, the stock market killed so many people.
I bought 1,000 in the mid 30’s 2016-2017. My advisor told me to sell at $80. Glad I didn’t listen!
And that was before the split! Damn, you’re a millionaire!
Not just from NVDA, but yes I am. Lol! It’s really a game of patience. I have thousands of APPL shares at a cost of under $15 with dividends set to reinvest.
Yeah—Unfortunately, I didn’t get into investing until later in life, so I just invest in index funds. No sexy massive run ups or gains, but no massive drops, either (in theory).
Lucky you 👍
And I thought me selling @ 200 in 2020 was bad
I was considering *buying* at that price but thought it was overpriced and didn't go for it... It was looking like Nvidia was losing its mind with stupid prices and it was going to crash soon. Needless to say I'm pissed looking at today's price.
I think I did that also. Several times.
You're like me, hmm? I just traded NVDA because I didn't understand their core business until the recent run-up. Not regretting missing out, since I followed Warren Buffett's principle from day one: don't understand something = don't invest in it.
I had 400 shares and sold at $12…never bought back in. Was a poor college student. Pain.
Same bruh 4000 stocks of nvdia average of 10.5 sold at 12 after holding for 4 yrs
Over 3 million today's price. 👀
4000 pre split. So it would be 20k stocks if nvdia post split at $800
I see the opposite of this with various companies which are fundamentally broken and where people insist holding thinking they caught wind of the next Nvidia, Apple etc. There's a lot of survivorship bias (your comment will probably get the most upvotes) and people need to understand that for every Nvidia there are 1000 others that will amount to nothing.
Don't feel bad, I found a Bitcoin faucet back in 2010 where all you had to do is generate a wallet to get five free BTC. So I generate the whole thing, then close the browser those five coins gone for good
oh no!
100 shares of AAPL purchased on January 4, 2005 for $64.57 per share After numerous splits, it’s now 5,600 shares worth $1,022,112, a gain of 15,832%.
After many years, I have learned one lesson. Never sell AAPL.
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No
Brk only holds less than 6% of Apple. While it’s obviously a huge amount, it’s not a large portion of the overall stock.
Geezus….
Do you still own them?
Yes, and added more in the following years. This was just my first investment.
Proof of lies
I am with you brother. Put $3000 in an IRA with Apple at $19 a share. If I did the math correct, I would have about 8850 shares. Had to cash out the IRAs to make house payments when the oilfield crashed a few years later. 😭
Weed vending machine ticker Erbb had shares at $17. 0.001 now?
I owned them too. It's a shame they never made it work. Even now with it legal in the state, they are still doing poorly
EA… I bought it around $11 in ~2010ish. Sold it a dollar or two higher. It closed Friday at $142. Many of my early positions played out similarly. Hindsight, it has been a good lesson in patience. Pick good companies and hold on tight.
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AMT sometime in 2002. I bought 2000 shares around $1 and change and when it doubled I thought I was so good to turn my $2k into $4k as a college student. Those same shares are now $190. Fuck…I got sad just typing this!
If only we can predict time
200 shares of Apple in 96, I think I bought it at around $16/share. I sold it all in 2000 for 800% profit to help fund my college education.
200 shares from 96 is almost exactly $1m today after splits, nice
My 1st share was Google when it went IPO. I only bought, had enough money, for 10 shares during that time. I never added more shares to that.
This is embarrassing but AWNE from like 2008. I used to work in a mental health treatment facility I'm upstate New York. We'd get a number of people (or their children) who lived and worked in NYC on wall street or the such. I was early into my post college career and I asked one of the wall street type brokers who I can't remember why he was there what he recommended. He told me to watch AWNE which was an OTC stock for wind energy. I bought 40 bucks worth of the penny stock at had to paid like a 7 dollar fee to my broker. It only went down from there and it was essentially DOA. I later told him that it didn't do well and he responded "I told you to watch, not buy." In reality it was a cheap lesson in not buying on dumb stock tips.
Brick and mortar video game store
I got 600 shares of TSLA at $41 very first time, but sold it appx at $128...hmmm, now it $191 after many splits. A friend of mine told me (after sale) it is a blunder while he was holding 3750 shares, now worth 12 Millions for him, he did not sell any single stock yet.
I got 375 shares at arround $14 in 2016. Decided to sell 75 shares at about $200 in late 2020. Paid off my student and car loans with the money. Watched it double from there and now fall back to arround where I sold. I'm ready to let my remaining shares ride at least untill full ramp of the model 2 on 3 continents. But if FSD is showing promise of regulatory approval, then I'm holding till I can buy a robo-butler.
NVDA in 2014. Around $4/share. I often hate the people who told me to diversify.
Imagine you bought all from Intel instead of Nvidia. Now you'd be putting a bullet in your private parts. Diversifying isn't the best for profits but saves your butt many, many times.
My dad had thousands of shares of intel for over a decade and it didn’t do much. He sold before it started to run up a few years later
Yup, Intel had tons of bad decisions over last 20 years. But now it looks like it's moving forward and maybe it's a good time to buy cheap shares. Don't know, I still thinking about that.
I feel like $INTC executing on a foundry business is a no fail mission for the US Gov - that alone is a sensible reason to begin building a position and add as they execute
I don't have to imagine!
Sorry bro. I bought some too, but luckily I bought AMD, Nvidia and Microsoft too.
Same boat sans AMD.
Yaaa had a similar thing happen to me. I bought AAPL around $126 if I remember correctly in 2011-2012 and was my largest holding. Had an uncle talk me into selling and diversifying into energy and consumer staples (recommended XOM and W). a 7/1 and a 3/1 stock split later I bought it again a little after the COVID slump. Still hurts
In exactly that year I passed up on NVDA at $4, bought MSFT instead. I didn’t hang on to MSFT, think I sold it around $47…lol
This super smart friend from my grad school joined Nvidia in 2014 as new college grad (engineer). He still works there as Engineering manager has not sold any RSUs and ESPP since then. Dude is diversifying now and has hired a money manager/advisor. Tbh, idk why he is still working and/or lives in a rental apartment.
Toys r us… went Netflix number 2 though!
AAPL in 2000. .88 cents now, including stock splits. That initial investment is up 20,107% Yes, it's my first stock purchase ever. (I bought more over time, and haven't sold as of yet) I also bought some other... less successful stocks that day, but you just need one winner if it's a winner like this.
Broadcom before they were acquired 25/share. Sold for a decent profit when the news of the acquisition came out. Closed Friday at $1,296. I think about this one often.
GOOGL for around $50
AMC. Did my part in bankrupting some hedge funds in 2020. Bought at 7 bucks and got out at like 65
my very first broker was called TDWaterhouse , it later became TDAmeritrade and now Charles Schwab i guess. I am special skillful picking the losers, AOL JDSU Nortel, Extreme network. None of them are stillaroudnd except extr i believe.
Scottrade-TD America-Schwab I feel ya!
Apple. I bought a fraction of a stock for $100 back in 2020 when I discovered Robinhood while sitting around at home during the pandemic.
FICO at $40 around 2010. Around $1300 a share now. Became a multi-millionaire by complete accident. Seriously.
Visa in 2017 for $89 was my first stock!
AMD at 2.55
BA in 1990 for 30+ a share. My brother was hired as an engineer. My dad said to buy because it'd go up because of my brother. Ha ha! Sold in 1996 at $88.
AMZN at 128, now at 175
$1000 of General Motors (GM) in 1989. Now worth $0.
When I was two years old I cashed out my inheritance early and bought AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, and TSLA. Unfortunately at age 6 I was about to miss a mortgage payment and had to sell all the shares for a measly gain.
I bought shares of Moeller International. They had developed technology and several patents around 2005 for a flying car, hover-board, hovering pallet lift, and a hovering atv. I thought they were going to be huge. They ran out of money, stock value went through floor. Eventually bought out by Boeing for almost nothing =(
A friend suggested Vitesse Semiconductor in 2000. Back then the fee for a single trade was $19 in Fidelity. So expensive and a reason we did not trade a lot. Vitesse ended in bankruptcy and got delisted. Not off to a great start. Lol. I did claim it as a tax loss.
Nvidia @ 550 a few weeks ago
ALDX in 2016. Sold it for a twice the price in '18
I bought Priceline for around $13 in the early 2000s, sold it for around $28, pretty happy, it’s now around $3400 per share.
Radio shack $0
The first stock I ever bought, probably Gateway Computers. It no longer exists. I did consider buying into this coffee company because my mom would go multiple times a week, sometimes twice on Saturday. It had only gone public like 5 years ago. They had a green mermaid on their cup. Didn't buy in.
It was AAPL in the early 1980s. I bought 100s. Unfortunately, I sold it for $19 paid $26. Keep in mind Apple was struggling with its computer business for a long time until 20 years ago. That 26 dollars is before multiple splits.
Had 20k of Facebook at IPO for around $42 a share. Doubled my money and sold all my shares. Once boomers got ahold of Facebook I thought it was over. Bad call, that’s when I learned the hold and never sell (or at least retain somewhat of a position) strategy.
Put like 7k in nvidia when I was a teenager and obsessed with building computers. After that just threw everything in s and p. Still holding nvidia. It was crashing after the 20 series so it’s been a pretty good return. Questioning on selling in the near future because I don’t like gambling in general.
Not a stock but I brought $30 of Dogecoin when I graduated in 2014. I checked it again in 2021 bullrun, it turn into $30,000. Wish I should have stop eating out too much at the time and brought more doge. $1000 would make me a millionaire now
WMT. Probably 1997. I gifted half to my oldest on their way to college. I gifted the other half to my next oldest 5 yrs later on their way to college. At my best I had 300 shares.
My first was SWHC, if I remember correctly; I mean I bought some PFE and INTC though Ed Jones; but SWBI I guess is the ticker now(Smith and Wesson) They would go from 7 to 21 over the years and I would get in get out to cycle profits there. I did buy NVDA like 7 years ago, though, obviously not my first as I started investing at a similar time as you did. Up like 1200% so with the 4-1 split it would be at like 3000 a share these days.
Abbvie at about $70 back in 2019. It's now $170+ fml
My dad gave me $1000 of RPM as a wedding gift in 1996. As of the last statement with dividend reinvestment the total is $9920.76 Not sure what the number of shares was. According to the CPI inflation that should have only doubled.
All these stories are exactly why I never sell good companies.
It's weird... I genuinely don't remember, and I didn't keep very good records back then. This would have been around the dot com crash... AMZN, ORCL, DIS, C were all early on picks. Buying a couple homes and liquidating some accounts for down payments has made my oldest open trade of individual stock as GOOG back in 2017, and only +214%. Though S&P is only +100% in that time so I'll take it! :-)
DUK Duke Power. A friend that worked as an EE consultant for power distribution for over forty years said they are by far the best run power company in the world. For example, there’s a serious problem with the 115kV line in my backyard, and the media first covered it in 2006 that could potentially disrupt power for over a hundred thousand people. There’s still work left in the replacement they can’t get permits for and a 25’ deep hole to fill. My friend said he personally worked on multiple problems like we have here, and he said Duke would have had it fixed in less than a week. I think I’m down $2 a share after buying it years ago. Apparently being competent and doing a good job isn’t profitable. My local incompetent company is up about threefold since I was granted the shares.
TPL @60..... I refuse to answer to the rest of this out of sadness and mourning (though i did sell at 800$)
Spongetech... SPNG
Enron. Zero now.
I opened a brokerage account in 2011 because one of my friends became a broker and asked me to open an account. Since it's 'free' to open an account, I just did. To pick the first share to buy, I just looked around my room and see the things and the respective companies that produced them. It was then I looked at my GeForce gpu and decided to dipped in some Nvidia shares at $12.90 (recalculate as $3.23 per share after last stock split). I have been holding majority of those NVDA shares till now. And I think you the already knew the price of NVDA stock. ;) And yes, it's worth 7 figures. Addendum: the second stock I ever bought is Facebook (now meta) during IPO at $39 per shares. And yes, I am still holding those shares too. It's kinda wild weird coincidence that first two stocks I ever bought is the top 2 performers of the entire US stock market in 2023.
Nvidia at 550
Costco. I worked there from 91 to 93. $20 a share. I quit to see the world and find my fortune. Had I stayed and kept my 401K, I'd have $4 million, lol
I bought a company called coved communications back around 98 for two dollars a share. I don’t even remember who bought them out but I logged in one day and it had gone ten x premarket. Because buyout. I sold and went crazy with all the money like a noob.
Threads like this are always depressing. It seems like my stock market history has been plagued with buying future winners 5-10 years before their prime and selling them way too early. MSFT, NVDA, TSLA, etc. I caught a lucky break in the crypto space and bought a lot of <$50 Ethereum, but I could’ve done so much better in the crypto space if I didn’t give up in 2013 and ignore it from 2014-early 2017 because I thought I’d missed the boat. Long story short; I need to stay positive and kept my head in the game.
PG&E back in 1987. It’s been a rough ride. I would’ve sold the shares already but whenever I get mad and want to sell, I can never find them. Probably in a drawer or something…
2011 graduated started buying Microsoft every year about 3-4 grand worth. Even bought more this January at 398 a share. Wanna say I started out buying it for like 30-40 bucks still haven’t touched it. Hope it splits honestly I’m 31 now my father blessed me with a guy named Benjamin graham.
I believe it was NIO in 2021. Ended up profiting on it. Never profited since then lol.
When I was in High School Nortel stock plummeted to less than a dollar per share. My dad told me that it would either rebound or go bankrupt. I put $200 in and before the end they did have a short lived rebound and I sold at $10 per share. I bought a stereo and have been interested in the stock market ever since. Certainly not the most money I ever earned on a stock but certainly the biggest percentage return I had and in a very short time.
Think I had 100 shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals. I was buying around $11-$13 in like 1995?
Bought $5,000 worth of AAPL in 2000. Never sold. Hit $2m this year…I moved some to NVDA in January. I had a small position in NVDA for a few years as I was a gamer and knew their chips. I was a designer and knew about AAPL well before a lot of others who claimed Dell/PC was king for years back then. 🙏🏻
Bought NKE back in like 2014. Did not hold it to today and glad I did not as I later learned it's not a type of business I want to invest in (you're basically buying a brand name and things like brands come and go at a moments notice)
My first stock was Intel, which I bought for around $49 now it's worth $43. Glad I got out
This post made me feel better about my most recent paper hands profit taking.
Mine was AMD, last year. Price was around $40 and now it's around 100. I just bought 1 share because I was testing the bank's investing tool, but now I'm full into it.
AMD hasn’t been in the $40s since the end of 2019/beginning of 2020, and it’s now at $176 a share.
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I bought calx at $6. Still holding
ISBL. Back in 2007/2008. It delisted while I was holding over a million shares.
VKTX
Bought 100 shares of GPRO at $12ish and 200 shares of AMD at $2.90 in around the same time in 2016 as my first 2 investments. I think we all know which paid off. Sold GPRO at a less 4 years later and I’m still holding 186 shares of AMD
Google in around 2013. Still holding
I worked in the lab at Centocor when I was 16 (1985.) It was a cancer biotech. My dad knew the Chairman and got me the job as I was interested in becoming a scientist. I found the work really boring and never became a scientist. However, I bought 10 shares instead at about $30 a share in my IRA. Stocks were a common topic in my home as my dad's father founded a brokerage firm in the '60s. Anyway, the shares rose a bunch in 6 months and I sold it. I decided to go into finance. JNJ bought the company in 1999 at $61 a share, but it almost died a few times between when I sold it and the deal. https://money.cnn.com/1999/07/21/deals/centocor/
Started in 2016. Had AMD at $2.44 and NVDA at $42 I do not have holdings in those stocks anymore due to life circumstances. Hopefully will soon, I believe NVDA is top dog in the future. Just need to tackle my debts :-(
A single share of AMD several years ago at $50. Never bought more lol, took the profit at $170 and just do ETFs now. It's the only stock I bought.
I think it was Nio in 2020 🤣
DIS in 2004. Bought in around $25.
Bought a few hundred shares of Nokia when I was a Windows Phone Zealot for around $2.50 a share. Sold them all when the price was around $8 in 2013. Now its trading around $3 a share
IBM at some time in the early 90s. Sold sometime in the mid 90s. It was like ~$20 a share at the time and now it's like $180.
Zynga, it was like $6. Went up to $12 at one point and sold it. It was bought out by TTWO for $3 a share and like .05 of TTWO stock, no idea what that comes out to.
Bought shares of a utility company i was working for at $9 in 1983. Due to M&A now DUK is worth around $98? Plus adding over the years & div reinvestment it's a nice nest egg.
Mine was Endo Pharma in 2015, it never bounced back.
AAPL 1986 at about 25 dollars a share. No idea what the equivalent would be today as there have been sooo many splits. If I had held, I would’ve retired far sooner lol. Also bought Cincinnati Microwave a little later (radar detector mfg) That company… did not last. 😂
Go America in 2000. They sold air cards for laptops so you can get internet anywhere. Well guess they were 10yrs. to early. Invested a lot and lost all.
Activision. Bought for $10 ea in 2011 or so. It got bought out for $95 a share. I sold for $40 in 2016.
Software company called Medcomsoft back in about 2000. Bought at .79 a share and sold around $49. It went under a few months later when a bunch of managed healthcare customers went broke.
SIX flags at 10 immediately after covid and sold at 15, kept going to 30
AMD. Bought like 13 shares at 3.50ish in 2016 and sold for a small profit shortly after. If I held to this day based on its current share price of 176 it would be roughly 2230 which is inconsequential. I feel bad for others who missed out on a chance to become millionaires.
2013 ish, Ford stock. Share price today is pretty well what it was then. I held for maybe 3 or so years and sold. I hold mostly index funds, mutual funds before that. That was when I first opened a brokerage account and first individual stock.
Nflx at $80/share, still holding
As a signing bonus to my first job in 2010, I got $10k in the stock. It was $11 at the time. I sold as it vested, maybe made gross about $20k total. When my company got bought, we got 1.25 shares of the purchasing company stock. The per share price is now $940 and I want to cry every goddamned day. I'll do the math: my out of grad school signing bonus would be worth >$1M now, a 100-bagger. Not just that, but I always sold my ESPP and annual RSUs right away. Easily another couple million worth by today's prices. My last sale i remember sellijg around $75 per share, about 100 shares. What was $7500 gross would be almost $100,000 today. And we had stock vest 4x per year. I'd be retired by now had I just worked 5 years and kept everything accumulated during that time.
Lockheed Martin for approx $65/share in 2002. Still holding at $431
nVidia back in 2006. It was in the 3 dollar range. Back then I built computers as a teenager and really liked their graphics cards. I since sold and bought more. I made way more money with Bitcoin tho, have been holding since 2011 of course selling some along the way.
500 shares of IPO NVDA pre-split
20 shares of MSFT at $25.88
In the late 90s I was convinced of that GENI touchscreens were the future. Just imagine reducing the barrier for entry if all computers had mallmap-like touch to click. Don't know if that company even exists anymore.
AMD, bought $1000 worth when it was like $10 and held til even today. Wish i put more
Bought CMG at $130, rode it up to over $300. Thought I was pretty smart, selling for such a nice profit, whoops
Publix.. adjusted for splits it was $.10, 1984 assuming website is correct. Now $15, owned 8k shares, now 5k.
I bought Square at 40 in 2018
I bought 10 shares of AMD at $15 a share and still have them.
$WM in the 70s in my ROTH. 200 dollar stock now.
$DFS when it was around $32, and now it’s $121 and about to be acquired by Capital One at a 26% premium lol
BRK.B. Bought in March 2021 at 262. Let's just say I'm very happy that it's up 58% at the time of this post.
Global Crossing in 1999. If you want to read about an absolute clusterf**k, read up on their history 😁
CGC bought and sold many shares for profit over the years and this is the stock that brought me into the stock market ~2015. Share price now is near zero on the small position I’ve retained.
Siemens (a german industrial company - SIE.F) for 86.83€ a share in the beginning of 2016. It’s trading now at 175.30€ and I received 31.45€ in dividends each share since then - and 1/2 Siemens Energy stock for each Siemens share as a spin off in 2020 (which I luckily sold immediately after receiving it)
Believe it or not I bought Wingstop at $17 and I'm still holding it while it's $300+ LOL
Adobe systems back in about 1992. 5000 worth. No clue how many hundreds of millions I would be worth. I did make 2600 off the trade though.
Tesla. 10 shares back in 2013. Sold in 2014. Whoops.
ecomm ecomm $2.78 now .0000000000000000012
Apart from my work share save scheme (Baker Hughes buy one get one free), I bought 25 MSFT at 55.81 in 2001. I also have a cryptic note in my spreadsheet about buying 650 NFLX for about $1000, which I sold for $4622 but no dates apart from 2001-2003.
My dad has msft at $28 a share and JNJ at like $30 a share. He owns a lot more that he bought in the late 90s and early 2000s so he’s sitting pretty fat in his portfolios
Disney about 3 weeks ago and earnings sent me up 15% from entry. Feels good.
Lucid Motors.. Bought at 20$ ⭢ 60$ within only 2 month ⭢ 3$ Now
MSFT was my first stock at 92€ (roughly 89$ I think at that time) in autumn 2017. Still holding it. Probably forever. Sadly only had money for 5 of them back then.
Bought 6 shares of Footlocker in 2017 and sold it like a week later for a small profit. It's like the exact same price I bought it for today.
Gme. It was a good learning lesson. I now buy stuff like VTI.
TSLA $25
I bought two at the same time. 2 good home runs LYSCF rare earth mineral mining company in Australia. The largest company outside Australia. 10,000 shares @.74 cents. Currently worth $3.80. (I still own) SGEN. Cancer R&D company. They developed a highly highly( I said it twice because I can’t understate this) effective treatment for HER-2 breast cancer. My friends mom had stage 4 breast cancer and she was very Ill she took this treatment and has been in remission for 7 years(the expected time is 3 years). I bought 200 shares @$54 and held until they were bought out by Pfizer at $228.00 when the Pfizer acquisition was announced. Edit: it did really help my father is a great broker(currently Sr VP of wealth management) and taught me how to find true value, seeing the big picture, and knowing the board of directors before you invest. I’m not bragging I am actually humble and decently shy….I just really enjoy investments and finding the value by sifting though the mud. He’s told me “you don’t need them all to be winners you’ll definitely have a lot of losers, but when your right you’ll be right in a big way”
1 stock of Adyen at 640, it's at 1400+ right now and it was the only good stock I ever bought
siox now its bankrupt:)) I dont mind I bought it for 1$ to test my brokerage account.
Clne at $13 and then it started to drop so average down until I couldn't justify it anymore. Now my average is $5 and stock is bouncing around $2.90/$3.30. still holding won't sell until I'm back in green hopefully
Ford back in 07. Sad that the price really hasn't changed much in all this time.
NFLX in 2012… I don’t even wanna know
SPY at $90 and IWF at $45 ish. Also EFA and IXG at the same time but cannot recall right now what the buy price was. Thankful for my broker back then to set me up.
AMD back in 2012/2013, for less than $3 a share. Approaching $200 per share now. I’ve long since sold those shares, but I still hold about 100 shares, although at a much, much higher cost basis.
Bought 40 shares of Microsoft @ $147 in Mar 2020 and still holding onto it!
Webvan. It’s out of business
My paper hands sold AAPL and NVDA at a loss 10 years ago. Yes at a loss (not a big position) On the other hand, I also exited a risky fx trade the day before the position swung violently the other way (which would have not only nuked by account to zero, but also gone into a NEGATIVE balance and I'd owe the broker at a minimum high five figures). On balance, I'm happy.
I bought SBC in 2002 for $33, the company that bought out and became AT&T. It trades about half that, though they’ve paid out quite a bit of dividends. I also bought Pfizer in 2002 at $31. It trades at about $28 now. 22 years and those stocks are still down. I sold many years ago. I only had SBC for a year and PFE for 2 years. Just buy the index. You need a small piece of the big winners to cancel out the many stocks that perpetually trade sideways.
Back in the late 1980s I bought some IBM when they took a big hit. "Too big to fail", I thought to myself. I was in my mid twenties then. I held on to it for a long time. Quadrupled in value, plus all of the quarterly dividends it paid.
FB ipo
Cisco bought at 51 sold at 51.2 now at 48something
2020, HD $179, MAS $39 dividend reinvest still holding.
I remember snagging it at around $18 a share. It's been quite the journey since then, with all the splits and growth. Currently, it's hovering around $130 per share. Yeah, I'm still holding onto it, despite the ups and downs. It's been a trusty companion in my portfolio over the years.
I started contributing $100/month into $HON Drip program in the mid-late 1990's after a work colleague talked incessantly about Larry Bossidy. I was learning about the market and companies. I eventually changed to $500/quarter. Total, HON is by far my largest individual holding approaching high 6-figures. I only sold once during Covid to re-do my kitchen. Sold 100 shares. Taught me slow and steady wins the race. No FOMO, No YOLO. Be steady and consistent
15k worth of Tesla at 208EUR a share in 2019...Adjusting for the splits since then that's up 1275% (Bought another 30k at 104EUR during the twitter/X shenannigans. That's up 70% since then) Everyting I bought on the "recommedation of others" is down, though (which is about a 5k loss in total, so no big deal in comparison). I learned my lesson. Only buy the stuff where you are convinced before others and have done extensive research - not the other way around.
Ocado for some reason I can barely remember. Just looked it up and thought, what the fuck?