Regrets:(

[Anonymous]

A friend recommended I buy Nvidia stock about 18 months ago and I never did. Feeling sad and bad that I didnt listen. If I was doubtful, I could have just put in a small amount, but no.
I’m doing ok financially but it would have been nice!!!

Any other financial regrets to share?

[Anonymous]

I was told to buy nvidia ten years ago but did not at any point along the way do so. Arghhhh

[Anonymous]

I was aware of Nvidia years ago but it's a gamble to have speculated it would become what it is today. Look at the stock history. I do have some Nvidia, bought when it was $100 and now it's $200 though I expect some good swings.

This kind of regretting is just regretting you didn't buy a lottery card.

[Anonymous]

Once you start actively watching the stock market, there are plenty of opportunities of woulda, coulda, shoulda.

Also, remember we are having historic returns currently. Being less dependent on individual growth stocks when we hit a crash or correction helps mitigate your losses.

[Anonymous]

Also, if you’re in S&P 500, you’re getting the Nvidia growth.

[Anonymous]

Nvidia was garbage for a decade when gaming was its primary business. I thought it was a dead company for years.

[Anonymous]

My tupperware stock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A friend recommended I buy Nvidia stock about 18 months ago and I never did. Feeling sad and bad that I didnt listen. If I was doubtful, I could have just put in a small amount, but no.
I’m doing ok financially but it would have been nice!!!

Any other financial regrets to share?

in 2004 I bought 2k shares of a company ticker TPL. It was a really boring company that owned land in texas (the old texas railroad stock).

It just sold a part of it's land regularly and then used the money to buy back stock. the idea was the last remaining shareholder would get all the remaining land.
It was mostly grazing land and some nice El Paso land.

anyway, i bought this for around $100k. it went up like 75% in a year and i thought i was a hero. one of my first investments. I sold it.

stopped following it. it turned out that the land they owned was where the Permian Basin oil was - the stock has gone up 500x since then.

$50MM in value today. unbelievable. I challenge anyone to find a non tech situation that was similar that wasn't a bankruptcy name or anything like that!

[Anonymous]

It was suggested to me that I invest in Amazon when absolutely no one had heard of it.

I was (and remain) suspicious of such supposed inside information ( not actually “inside,” more like an early tip from a friend of a friend ).

At the time, I thought, “how will an internet site for ordering books ever hit it big? “

Actually, since I had little discretionary income to invest at that time…it would not have made a big difference. But man would that investment have paid off over time.

[Anonymous]

I got burned really bad by a PIPE once. Never again.

[Anonymous]

I sold my Amazon stock in 1999. 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was suggested to me that I invest in Amazon when absolutely no one had heard of it.

I was (and remain) suspicious of such supposed inside information ( not actually “inside,” more like an early tip from a friend of a friend ).

At the time, I thought, “how will an internet site for ordering books ever hit it big? “

Actually, since I had little discretionary income to invest at that time…it would not have made a big difference. But man would that investment have paid off over time.

Amazon did not have very many early stage, friends and angel investors. They did raise $1mm from about 20 investors in 1995-1996. That would have been a home run
and you would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

other than that the only time you could have bought Amazon was during the IPO and by that time people had heard of it. They had over 1mm customers at that point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nvidia was garbage for a decade when gaming was its primary business. I thought it was a dead company for years.

+1
I know a very smart and experienced guy in tech who told me a long time ago that Nvidia was a sh•t company lol

Much of his compensation was in stock options when it was trading under $5/share.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was suggested to me that I invest in Amazon when absolutely no one had heard of it.

I was (and remain) suspicious of such supposed inside information ( not actually “inside,” more like an early tip from a friend of a friend ).

At the time, I thought, “how will an internet site for ordering books ever hit it big? “

Actually, since I had little discretionary income to invest at that time…it would not have made a big difference. But man would that investment have paid off over time.

Same.

[Anonymous]

My biggest regret is buying a lotto ticket with wrong numbers when the jackpot was over $1 billion. All i had to do was pick the right numbers.