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Oh yeah I became an instant millionaire when the company I was working for went public. A typical Silicon Valley rags to ritches story and quite common in that neck of the woods back then. Although it was on the tail end of the Silicon Valley story at least for semiconductor makers it was. There just ain't no more silicon in silicon valley.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
18000 shares of aapl for 6 or so years helped had it when it split at 92+$95,662.23 (1.08%)
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+$1,185,922.68 (15.19%)
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Hell when the company I worked for went public I made 2 or 3 million in one day.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
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
Since you asked here's a list of all my holdings with AAPL having about 65% of all stockI'm up close to 500K THIS MONTHIncidentally, 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.
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.
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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
Chem here's a little wisdom for you I did well last year and so far this year because I did NOTHINGI'm up close to 500K THIS MONTHIncidentally, 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.
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.
had amd sold way to early And have nvda and coup now you did great congratsSince you asked here's a list of all my holdings with AAPL having about 65% of all stockI'm up close to 500K THIS MONTHIncidentally, 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.
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.
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
Solid list you have there. MSFT, AMAT, AAPL and others as well.
I bought AAPL in 2007. it took over my portfolio and was 80% of it at one point. I trimmed and expanded into others including FB after it started showing monetization of it's mobil platform (around $29). Sold all FB recently as I don't see any more room for growth and in this messed up environment, advertising is one of the places budget cutting begins. I've owned AMZN for about 8 years and it is now the highest percentage in my portfolio. GMCR is where I made a 14X and moved retirement up by about 10 years.
Maybe you should consider AMD or NVDA at some point. Just a thought.
I think that what is important is the base on which that $600,000 was earned. If you started the year with $6 Billion and earned $600,000, you're only making 0.01%, less than even savings accounts or T-Bills pay today. However, if you started with $600,000 and doubled your money in a year, that's spectacular!
/—-/ $250,000 was my best so far.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
/———/ Care to share the stock?/—-/ $250,000 was my best so far.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
My grandpa is ridiing a wave on one now....set to cash in on a 3.00 - 4.00 stock, he played it perfectly, hit the highs and lows on time.. He'll never want for money again.
It's bragging even if you did do it.
And it you come of as a real douche.
Well I would hope rather that it would motivate people to buy investments.
After reading this thread, I have decided to be honest with you. I am working on my second million as we speak.
I gave up on the first million many years ago when I joined the military and then became a public school teacher.
I think most of you are as just as full of shit as my claim!
Cisco?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"?
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.
Cisco?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"?
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.
awwww bugger. You are kidding. You owned Cisco stock when they were small? Oh, that hurts. That really hurts.
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.
Hell when the company I worked for went public I made 2 or 3 million in one day.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
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
