Did any of you ever gain $600K in one year?

[eddiew]

Incidentally, if you add up all the money you have earned in your life, would it total $600,000?
Please provide readers with your analysis of what constitutes a good investment in the stock market.
Perhaps we can learn from you. Let's see.

hjmick: "Funny"? That's it? "Funny"? Shall we assume less than $600K lifetime earnings for you, and zero good investment advice in the stock market from you? Are those "funny"? Or just sad.

I'm up close to 500K THIS MONTH

Well, Eddie, I was asking hjmick, and not surprisingly, he declined to answer anything at all. But since you volunteered this, why don't you share your wisdom with the crowd and tell us your top five holdings and why you or your advisor selected them.

Chem here's a little wisdom for you I did well last year and so far this year because I did NOTHING

 

[ChemEngineer]

Incidentally, if you add up all the money you have earned in your life, would it total $600,000?
Please provide readers with your analysis of what constitutes a good investment in the stock market.
Perhaps we can learn from you. Let's see.

hjmick: "Funny"? That's it? "Funny"? Shall we assume less than $600K lifetime earnings for you, and zero good investment advice in the stock market from you? Are those "funny"? Or just sad.

I'm up close to 500K THIS MONTH

Well, Eddie, I was asking hjmick, and not surprisingly, he declined to answer anything at all. But since you volunteered this, why don't you share your wisdom with the crowd and tell us your top five holdings and why you or your advisor selected them.

Since you asked here's a list of all my holdings with AAPL having about 65% of all stock
Add Symbol
Currency in USD

Symbol

Last Price Change 52-Wk High Volume High Low
TDOC

101.47 +3.22 102.80 1.581M 102.80 99.66
IONS

61.23 +1.21 86.58 857,229 62.98 61.03
AAPL

317.70 +1.13 319.99 24.466M 319.99 317.31
JD

40.97 +0.91 42.00 15.572M 42.00 40.50
LITE

78.84 +0.76 84.49 1.443M 80.52 78.52
AMAT

63.89 +0.69 64.60 4.882M 64.60 63.62
TMUS

82.48 +0.45 85.22 1.6M 83.03 82.08
SQ

68.70 +0.39 83.20 4.48M 70.04 68.70
BMY

67.42 -0.01 68.34 8.621M 68.34 67.22
ICON

1.4200 -0.1100 5.4000 45,153 1.5300 1.4100
FB

221.32 -0.12 222.75 11.711M 222.75 221.28
FEYE

16.44 -0.12 18.66 2.411M 16.72 16.37
WORK

22.14 -0.17 42.00 3.834M 22.75 22.13
CREE

52.04 -0.26 69.21 818,538 52.94 51.93
MSFT

165.70 -0.80 168.19 21.925M 167.49 165.68
ATVI

60.32 -1.10 61.90 5.123M 61.90 60.24
QCOM

92.97 -1.57 96.17 7.043M 95.39 92.71
LK

43.75 -3.91 51.38

Thank you for your reply. An acquaintance told me to buy Qualcomm thirty years ago, but he was such an ***hole I paid him no attention.
Imagine buying it at a few dollars, holding on to the insane runup and then bailing out as it fell off the cliff, only to recover a few years later.

A wonderful friend owned some high tech stock in the amount of $800,000 and made his wife promise him never to sell it. He passed away at an early age and it plummeted, much to her dismay. It was the very same one I wanted to buy even before then but my stockbroker (at that time I had one) said it is overpriced so I stayed out, and missed UUUGE gains. I'll think of the name as my subconscious wanders around over the next few hours. We all have search engines as our computers do.

 

[Faun]

I did.
I'm only saying that to get in the faces of a lot of profane individuals who specialize in insults and name-calling.

"It ain't braggin' if you really done it." - Dizzy Dean

Well more than that. I had stock options in a startup company back during the dot com craze. Could have made even more but the stock started declining before I sold all my shares.

 

[eddiew]

Incidentally, if you add up all the money you have earned in your life, would it total $600,000?
Please provide readers with your analysis of what constitutes a good investment in the stock market.
Perhaps we can learn from you. Let's see.

hjmick: "Funny"? That's it? "Funny"? Shall we assume less than $600K lifetime earnings for you, and zero good investment advice in the stock market from you? Are those "funny"? Or just sad.

I'm up close to 500K THIS MONTH

Well, Eddie, I was asking hjmick, and not surprisingly, he declined to answer anything at all. But since you volunteered this, why don't you share your wisdom with the crowd and tell us your top five holdings and why you or your advisor selected them.

Since you asked here's a list of all my holdings with AAPL having about 65% of all stock
Add Symbol
Currency in USD

Symbol

Last Price Change 52-Wk High Volume High Low
TDOC

101.47 +3.22 102.80 1.581M 102.80 99.66
IONS

61.23 +1.21 86.58 857,229 62.98 61.03
AAPL

317.70 +1.13 319.99 24.466M 319.99 317.31
JD

40.97 +0.91 42.00 15.572M 42.00 40.50
LITE

78.84 +0.76 84.49 1.443M 80.52 78.52
AMAT

63.89 +0.69 64.60 4.882M 64.60 63.62
TMUS

82.48 +0.45 85.22 1.6M 83.03 82.08
SQ

68.70 +0.39 83.20 4.48M 70.04 68.70
BMY

67.42 -0.01 68.34 8.621M 68.34 67.22
ICON

1.4200 -0.1100 5.4000 45,153 1.5300 1.4100
FB

221.32 -0.12 222.75 11.711M 222.75 221.28
FEYE

16.44 -0.12 18.66 2.411M 16.72 16.37
WORK

22.14 -0.17 42.00 3.834M 22.75 22.13
CREE

52.04 -0.26 69.21 818,538 52.94 51.93
MSFT

165.70 -0.80 168.19 21.925M 167.49 165.68
ATVI

60.32 -1.10 61.90 5.123M 61.90 60.24
QCOM

92.97 -1.57 96.17 7.043M 95.39 92.71
LK

43.75 -3.91 51.38

Thank you for your reply. An acquaintance told me to buy Qualcomm thirty years ago, but he was such an ***hole I paid him no attention.
Imagine buying it at a few dollars, holding on to the insane runup and then bailing out as it fell off the cliff, only to recover a few years later.

A wonderful friend owned some high tech stock in the amount of $800,000 and made his wife promise him never to sell it. He passed away at an early age and it plummeted, much to her dismay. It was the very same one I wanted to buy even before then but my stockbroker (at that time I had one) said it is overpriced so I stayed out, and missed UUUGE gains. I'll think of the name as my subconscious wanders around over the next few hours. We all have search engines as our computers do.

Chem 4 or so years ago I had a couple 1000 ADBE Bought at 29 went to 30 ,31 Hung around that for 6 or so months Sold it for small loss or gain Think I see it go by at 350 or so now So when I say sometimes the smartest thing is to do nothing it's a painful lesson I learned

 

[ChemEngineer]

A wonderful friend owned some high tech stock in the amount of $800,000 and made his wife promise him never to sell it. He passed away at an early age and it plummeted, much to her dismay. It was the very same one I wanted to buy even before then but my stockbroker (at that time I had one) said it is overpriced so I stayed out, and missed UUUGE gains. I'll think of the name as my subconscious wanders around over the next few hours. We all have search engines as our computers do.

Big company. They make servers I believe. Skyrocketed and then plummeted. Help me people.
Starts with a "C"?

 

[ChemEngineer]

Chem 4 or so years ago I had a couple 1000 ADBE Bought at 29 went to 30 ,31 Hung around that for 6 or so months Sold it for small loss or gain Think I see it go by at 350 or so now So when I say sometimes the smartest thing is to do nothing it's a painful lesson I learned

I had 144 apartment units in escrow for One Mil. with the Resolution Trust Company. Seven years old. Less than the value of the land. Got cold feet and cancelled the escrow and regret my stupidity every day.
But money is nothing compared to other woes, as everyone reading this knows.

 

[eddiew]

A wonderful friend owned some high tech stock in the amount of $800,000 and made his wife promise him never to sell it. He passed away at an early age and it plummeted, much to her dismay. It was the very same one I wanted to buy even before then but my stockbroker (at that time I had one) said it is overpriced so I stayed out, and missed UUUGE gains. I'll think of the name as my subconscious wanders around over the next few hours. We all have search engines as our computers do.

Big company. They make servers I believe. Skyrocketed and then plummeted. Help me people.
Starts with a "C"?

Cisco?

 

[ChemEngineer]

A wonderful friend owned some high tech stock in the amount of $800,000 and made his wife promise him never to sell it. He passed away at an early age and it plummeted, much to her dismay. It was the very same one I wanted to buy even before then but my stockbroker (at that time I had one) said it is overpriced so I stayed out, and missed UUUGE gains. I'll think of the name as my subconscious wanders around over the next few hours. We all have search engines as our computers do.

Big company. They make servers I believe. Skyrocketed and then plummeted. Help me people.
Starts with a "C"?

Cisco?

BINGO!!!
I had a hunch on Cisco but my broker told me it was overpriced.... in 1980...

I later wrote to Cisco advising them not to spend billions buying smaller companies at outrageous P/E ratios but they ignored me without so much as a reply. They continued their follies and it tanked big time.
Then I opened an account at whatsisname's investment service, the guy who writes a column for Forbes. Advertises all over television and print media. He does okay but I kept other accounts including my wife's separate to save his 1.5% commission. After he ignored my advice three times, to his extreme detriment, and after my investments outperformed his modified portfolio (I insisted on 60 stocks max, his model was 80), I withdrew. I asked why his model portfolio was very different from his Forbes recommendations. His answer: "My best advice is for clients" (not Forbes). Ken Fisher, that's the guy.
Told him to divest from companies investing in terrorist sponsoring nations, as recommended by WSJ.
He said NO and I insisted on getting my money out of TOT. They bought the Australian firm in its place and while TOT went up 20% the following year, the Aussie company was up 50%.
Told him to get out of Japan where he was overweight according to his own metric. Said get into Brazil Fund which he had zero of. Ignored both as Japan Fund continued to decline and Brazil soared.

His clients would have prospered very greatly but NOOOO, Ken is the "expert."

You can look it all up.

 

[Westender]

I did in one day back about 15 years ago, not sure exactly what day it was. I own 4 lots and 2 rental houses 2 blocks from the gulf in Inlet Beach. Lots were selling around $40,000 each. One day a real estate agent knocks on my door and had researched who owned the lots and told me they could get me $170,000 each. Of course I thought they were crazy until she showed me the lot behind me sold for $169,900. Not sure of the day but that lot that I almost bought for $35,000 (it was 1 block further from beach than mine) sold for 170 and never saw a price tag of anything between 35 and 170. That was a hell of a bubble.

 

[ChemEngineer]

Cisco?

BINGO!!!
I had a hunch on Cisco but my broker told me it was overpriced.... in 1980...

I later wrote to Cisco advising them not to spend billions buying smaller companies at outrageous P/E ratios but they ignored me without so much as a reply. They continued their follies and it tanked big time.
Then I opened an account at whatsisname's investment service, the guy who writes a column for Forbes. Advertises all over television and print media. He does okay but I kept other accounts including my wife's separate to save his 1.5% commission. After he ignored my advice three times, to his extreme detriment, and after my investments outperformed his modified portfolio (I insisted on 60 stocks max, his model was 80), I withdrew. I asked why his model portfolio was very different from his Forbes recommendations. His answer: "My best advice is for clients" (not Forbes). Ken Fisher, that's the guy.
Told him to divest from companies investing in terrorist sponsoring nations, as recommended by WSJ.
He said NO and I insisted on getting my money out of TOT. They bought the Australian firm in its place and while TOT went up 20% the following year, the Aussie company was up 50%.
Told him to get out of Japan where he was overweight according to his own metric. Said get into Brazil Fund which he had zero of. Ignored both as Japan Fund continued to decline and Brazil soared.

His clients would have prospered very greatly but NOOOO, Ken is the "expert."

You can look it all up.[/QUOTE]

The company Fisher Investments put me into after I demanded that they sell my TOT was BHP. It went crazy for a year or two. Way better than TOT which was up a paltry 20% annually.

 

[Ken Mac]

It's bragging even if you did do it.

And it you come of as a real douche.

Envy is ugly.

Good for you OP! That's awesome! We should celebrate success. If we don't, it's because of envy. There is no other option.

 

[ChemEngineer]

It's bragging even if you did do it.

And it you come of (sic) as a real douche.

Envy is ugly.

Good for you OP! That's awesome! We should celebrate success. If we don't, it's because of envy. There is no other option.

Ken Mac may God bless you and expand your territory. hjmick obviously doesn't know the difference between "of" and "off."

So what if I'm bragging. Grandparents do that every day of the week, to the delight of everyone listening... except those like hjmick, poor pathetic thing.

Incidentally, envy is much worse than ugly. It's a sin. Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbors. But covetousness is a plank in the Democrat platform, just as is lying, you racist Nazi fascist. Democrats always claim they're better, more moral, and smarter than you and if you disagree, they simply call you racist, fascist, Nazi bigot who is by the way greedy and mean-spirited.

 

[hjmick]

It's bragging even if you did do it.

And it you come of as a real douche.

Envy is ugly.

Good for you OP! That's awesome! We should celebrate success. If we don't, it's because of envy. There is no other option.

No envy, there is no reason for me to be envious. I just don't like braggarts.


But hey, thanks for playing, sparky.

 

[Ken Mac]

It's bragging even if you did do it.

And it you come of as a real douche.

Envy is ugly.

Good for you OP! That's awesome! We should celebrate success. If we don't, it's because of envy. There is no other option.

No envy, there is no reason for me to be envious. I just don't like braggarts.


But hey, thanks for playing, sparky.

You're assuming they are bragging based on your world view. They actually may only feel they are sharing their success with others. Your world view is one of envy because you consider it bragging.

I love playing this game.

Your turn.

 

[anynameyouwish]

I did.
I'm only saying that to get in the faces of a lot of profane individuals who specialize in insults and name-calling.

"It ain't braggin' if you really done it." - Dizzy Dean

chicken feed.

look, if you need money just ask.....

whatdya need? a mill?
2?

 

[Dick Foster]

I did.
I'm only saying that to get in the faces of a lot of profane individuals who specialize in insults and name-calling.

"It ain't braggin' if you really done it." - Dizzy Dean

Hell when the company I worked for went public I made 2 or 3 million in one day.
The hard part was having to sit on it because as an insider I was locked up. During the lockup period, dot com bust two came along and I wasn't so paper rich anymore so I forgot about all those fancey cars I'd been shopping for.
Eventually I got my money but there were many ups and downs along the way.

But to answer your question yes. I've even paid that much in taxes in one year and it was very friggin painful indeed.

 

[anynameyouwish]

I did.
I'm only saying that to get in the faces of a lot of profane individuals who specialize in insults and name-calling.

"It ain't braggin' if you really done it." - Dizzy Dean

Hell when the company I worked for went public I made 2 or 3 million in one day.
The hard part was having to sit on it because as an insider I was locked up. During the lockup period, dot com bust two came along and I wasn't so paper rich anymore so I forgot about all those fancey cars I'd been shopping for.
Eventually I got my money but there were many ups and downs along the way.

But to answer your question yes. I've even paid that much in taxes in one year and it was very friggin painful indeed.

I am positive that NOBODY posting lunacies on this board is a millionaire unless they inherited it.

if, with millions of dollars, the best you can do is post lunacies on a message board then you are seriously wasting your time

 

[eddiew]

I did.
I'm only saying that to get in the faces of a lot of profane individuals who specialize in insults and name-calling.

"It ain't braggin' if you really done it." - Dizzy Dean

Hell when the company I worked for went public I made 2 or 3 million in one day.
The hard part was having to sit on it because as an insider I was locked up. During the lockup period, dot com bust two came along and I wasn't so paper rich anymore so I forgot about all those fancey cars I'd been shopping for.
Eventually I got my money but there were many ups and downs along the way.

But to answer your question yes. I've even paid that much in taxes in one year and it was very friggin painful indeed.

I am positive that NOBODY posting lunacies on this board is a millionaire unless they inherited it.

if, with millions of dollars, the best you can do is post lunacies on a message board then you are seriously wasting your time

You're wrong and I'm perfectly sane, but I don't post lunacies

 

[ChemEngineer]

It's bragging even if you did do it.

And it you come of as a real douche.

Envy is ugly.

Good for you OP! That's awesome! We should celebrate success. If we don't, it's because of envy. There is no other option.

No envy, there is no reason for me to be envious. I just don't like braggarts.

But hey, thanks for playing, sparky.

And I don't like weak, envious boys. Cowboy up, instead of being a pu$$y.

 

[eddiew]

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