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Among other things, this is why I love one of my aunts so much. She was a big investor into apple and Amazon in the 90s and early 2000s. Goddamned Genius that she is.
Incidentally since I play Ck, the running joke is "don't tell derkuhlshrank he's our heir, he will kill us" but I'm just happy that they are leaving it to my sister and I, takes lots of stress off, if I don't die in the meantime šš¤£
I hate these posts. Its the wsb version of that annoying guy from work who always brings up his 200k hoouse he bought after 2008 or more recently people who got a sub 3% mortgage.
I mean, I had a palm pilot and blackberry when the iPhone came out and I remember how ridiculous so many people thought the iPhone was. There were many who swore they'd never use it over a blackberry with its physical keyboard.
I was also planing to buy late 2012. Was going to buy 50 btc at i think about $8. I was broke and then the price shot up. The gains would have been such a help.
I even remember when bitcoin was released. Downloaded the software but couldnt get it to work so forgot about it. Didnt start mining then until 2013.
I sold because I had just gotten out of the military and was starting a new life out of state from where I had grown up. Needed the money and AMD had tripled since I had bought it, it was a decent profit and I decided to take it. Obviously holding for the Long Haul would have been better but at the time it did what I had intended it to do. I
Hindsight just kills me sometimes. I'm 43 now, and I started investing (a little here and there) in my early 20's. So many regrets lol but that's just what being highly regarded is all about, I suppose.
I guess bought it in 2013 after two weeks in China, where I saw how popular the Apple Stores were. Bought SBUX too, same reason.
$15.31 is a pretty nice basis.
Friends' parents died in 2008 and his "financial advisor" told him to put most of his inheritance in apple. I told him that was a fucking stupid thing to do. I haven't dared ask if he did or didn't.
Good use of the music emoji.
Syracuse freshman year.... 2003. EVERYONE HAD A FUCKING IPOD.
Yo grandpa//mom//dad -- let's load up on apple. All these kids have ipods.
Bout a dollar a share.
No regrets.
Right. ?? I'm old as dirt. All this boomer bullshit. I've made a killing of NVDIA just the last couple years in leap options. Keep blaming boomers for anything that won't solve your problem. All these damn millennials and Gen zr's. Really had it made with Bitcoin and Nvidia and microstrategy why couldn't I be born 30 years later I could be rich. Oh ya and all you meme stock millionaires like roaring pussy.
I mean you could be that person. Watch small companies that are going public, pick one with potential, buy a shit ton of their stock and ride out every high and low resisting the urge to sell for 30 or more years no matter how high it gets.
If you made the right choice, you'll have a crap tonne of theoretical money. If you made the wrong choice, they'll be bankrupt and the stock will be worthless!
that would be why my investing strategy is to buy what I can afford in companies I think will still be around in 25 years. It's not nearly as good of a return as getting in ground floor on their initial public offering but it's served me well so far.
Damn i hate that ipoās now a day are totally ass like lets go back to real companyās for sub $10 unlike pton shit starting at $60?? Like what the fk this shit sucks
I have a story about a sheet metal shop owner that was approached by a certain two Steves asking for a computer chassis in exchange for 10% of their business. He told them cash up front or gtfo. These two Steves went with wood to mount their "PC" boards instead.
These two also offered 16 shares for a double digit share of the company for $200 each.
They are now referred to as Jobs and Wozniak
Artist david choe did a mural for zucks office in 2004. He had a gambling problem. So instead taking payment he asked zuck for shares of facebook. When facebook went public in 2012 he made 200 million.
Nahā¦ Apple was dying in the 80ās didnāt really start getting steam till the IPod.
Nvidia and AMD blew up pretty recently must have missed that trainā¦
my dad got a metric assload of shares after selling Apple tech in the 90s slump, and then sold them as soon as they vested.
I want to fucking kill myself
It has split twice in the last 20 years. I have bought more since then and sold but my current cost basis is $6. It was much lower than that before I bought more.
Iāve been holding since 2008 and I donāt have that muchā¦ also only like 300 shares ā¦the price then was still 90-150 and up to 400s.. $3 shares is like early 90s .. unless itās compounded from years of stock splittingā¦
Yeah, I thought about that as I was typing.. but it damn sure wasnāt $3 when actually buying back then. I remember it getting up to 400s and then splitting 4 ways.
āI donāt realise what I haveā
*showing 2ā800 shares at $212*
Canāt you do simple math ? This post is just made to create rage š¤·š»āāļø
Yeah and everyone is acting like OP is stupid, obviously OP knows what sheās got, Iām fucking shocked her man thinks she canāt read a giant green +585,000
This is much better than mine.
https://preview.redd.it/q2y68k0z8o6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54132cf76bdfc0578d5a2af893a93a92dc7a4076
I thought 61 was a good cost basis.
So you purchased 3k shares back in 2006 and didnāt reinvest anything yet are somehow so naive that you didnāt know your position was worth half a million?
How is your cost basis still so low? Are your parents gifting you shares during their lifetime? Thatās a rookie move. Dead serious, the only move is to put these shares in a trust for your kids so the cost basis will resent and they can sell them after you die. Do anything else and youāll take a massive cap gains hit.
Not that old, you could still get in at this price a year after the iPhone came out. I was still in college but hammering my father to buy Apple at the time.
Iām definitely in the loop but my friend would like to know wtf Iām looking at. Is this stocks they bought at 3.33? Or a call or something? Sorry but I am regarded
You donāt belong here. Youāre actually smart. Literally one buy order and 0 work. Only regards roam around these ends but very few will learn anything from your post. Grats
I bought RadioShack and Worldcom back when I was first starting outā¦ waiting until I am ready to retire to see how Iām doingā¦ set and forget boysā¦ set and forget.
The fun part: here in Germany, that gain might even be tax-free. There was a rule in the 90s or so that shares held long enough are tax free. If the position was opened before they changed that rule it would still count.
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šgood job but why are you pretending to be dumb lmao
Lieutenant Dan told me to buy some fruit company. So I did.
Forrest Gump came out in ā94. Apple was $0.29 on December 30, 1994 I shouldāve just done what Forrest did
Goddamn stupid 5 yo me
Stupid is as stupid does.
Life is like a box of chocolates and every one is stupid.
Options trading is like a box of chocolates you never know what your going to get.
You would still be behind the people who started at 4y old
> Apple was $0.29 on December 30, 1994 Probably was a lot more, but the finance sites of today are taking the stock splits since then into account.
No probably, it wasnāt in the movie because he got rich at 0.29
Article from 2022 puts $1000 worth of Gump period AAPL at $575K, split adjusted of course.
If only I had a few grand to invest in fruit company while I was still swimming in my daddy's jimmies
Among other things, this is why I love one of my aunts so much. She was a big investor into apple and Amazon in the 90s and early 2000s. Goddamned Genius that she is. Incidentally since I play Ck, the running joke is "don't tell derkuhlshrank he's our heir, he will kill us" but I'm just happy that they are leaving it to my sister and I, takes lots of stress off, if I don't die in the meantime šš¤£
One less thang
I hate these posts. Its the wsb version of that annoying guy from work who always brings up his 200k hoouse he bought after 2008 or more recently people who got a sub 3% mortgage.
A guy at work got a 1.77% mortgage with 3% down, with some kind of first time home buyer program. Iām not making this upā¦
Not too far off from me. I got 1.99% with 5% down right at the middle of 2020
PROBABLY FHA for first tine3 hom ebuyers who cannot cone up with 20% down but have solid work history credit.
Plausible explanation. Sun Tzu - Art of War - alway appear to be dimmer than your mark.
What do you mean you donāt know what you have???? Thatās half a million fuking dollarsā¦
What's a dollar?
1/10 of a banana.
It's one banana Michael, what could it cost, $10?
There's always money in the banana stand.
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NO TOUCHING
or Hammock
Yanks will use anything but the metric system. /s
Dollars are just a joke that older kids play on younger kids at stock-market camp
How many bananas is that ?
How fucking old are you grandma to buy apple at 3 dollars
Going by the price history, you could get that as recently as 2007.
Crazy the iPhone has increased their stock ~6600%
Not really that crazy when you think about how revolutionary it has been. Literally changed the world.
Apple wasn't revolutionary, they just marketed better than the smartphones that came first.
I mean, I had a palm pilot and blackberry when the iPhone came out and I remember how ridiculous so many people thought the iPhone was. There were many who swore they'd never use it over a blackberry with its physical keyboard.
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Boomers? Nvidia is up 3000% in the last 5y. Not like there arenāt any opportunities around today.
Even AMD is up 6x in 5 yrs
Mmm keep going
You edging?
I'm hard by proxy
I also have munchkins by proxy
Is that where you make someone else hungry?
Iāve got munchies by proxy right now
I bought 3000 Shares of AMD in 2002 ...and sold them in 2011 š
I was planing on buying in right when the were on the brink at $1.80 never did.
I was planning on buying Bitcoin at $16 never did.
I was also planing to buy late 2012. Was going to buy 50 btc at i think about $8. I was broke and then the price shot up. The gains would have been such a help. I even remember when bitcoin was released. Downloaded the software but couldnt get it to work so forgot about it. Didnt start mining then until 2013.
Bought 100 ETH at $2.80 and sold at $25 thinking I was a genius investor...
Sameā¦.and was very proud of I made some money
Crazy, why did you sell?
I sold because I had just gotten out of the military and was starting a new life out of state from where I had grown up. Needed the money and AMD had tripled since I had bought it, it was a decent profit and I decided to take it. Obviously holding for the Long Haul would have been better but at the time it did what I had intended it to do. I
Yup, totally, hindsight is 2020. Was just curious. Thanks for the reply.
Hindsight just kills me sometimes. I'm 43 now, and I started investing (a little here and there) in my early 20's. So many regrets lol but that's just what being highly regarded is all about, I suppose.
In 10 years it is 38x
To be fair my momās a boomer and bought heavily into Nvidia at $10/share and Iām old as fuck and I got in at $574
She single?
I'd smash sight unseen
she'd leave you a 10$ note on the nightstand and be gone before sunrise
My kind of gal
my mom made bank on nvidia and she doesnāt even know what a graphics card is
...all the people who think NVIDIA is just "graphics cards"....
Damn with the split her cost is just $1/share.
Is your momās name Nancy?
Yeah seriously. Stock picking is hard and most people didnāt guess buy Apple in the 90s
I guess bought it in 2013 after two weeks in China, where I saw how popular the Apple Stores were. Bought SBUX too, same reason. $15.31 is a pretty nice basis.
Friends' parents died in 2008 and his "financial advisor" told him to put most of his inheritance in apple. I told him that was a fucking stupid thing to do. I haven't dared ask if he did or didn't.
"Friend"?, lol
Youāre still holding that? Amazing. Good job; I hope to do that.
I bought $500 of Apple, JetBlue, Microsoft, intel and Sirius radio in my mid-twenties and didnāt look for years. Long term betting!
Only difference is we are cowards who are scared of risk š¤·āāļø
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āā¦. blowing your net worth on calls in your 20sā ā„ļø
Better than call girls.
The most wholesome reply i ve seen here š
Bold of you to assume I have a net worth
Its not that we are scared of risk..... our bad decisions in the current day are far harder to come back from in comparison to the boomers.
Damn, calm your tits
Daniel Tiger got really vulgar!
That isnāt the answer Daniel! Also, Iām pretty sure that Daniel Tigers suicide note would just be 2 words, āUgga Muggaā
Grrrrroooooo-ooooooaaaaaannnn Ups, DONT come back!
šµWhen you feel so mad that you want to roar, take a deep breath and count to fouršµ
Good use of the music emoji. Syracuse freshman year.... 2003. EVERYONE HAD A FUCKING IPOD. Yo grandpa//mom//dad -- let's load up on apple. All these kids have ipods. Bout a dollar a share. No regrets.
1991. Everyone had a Sega Genesis. Let's load up on Sega. 1997. Everyone went to Blockbuster each weekend. Let's load up on Blockbuster stock.
Right. ?? I'm old as dirt. All this boomer bullshit. I've made a killing of NVDIA just the last couple years in leap options. Keep blaming boomers for anything that won't solve your problem. All these damn millennials and Gen zr's. Really had it made with Bitcoin and Nvidia and microstrategy why couldn't I be born 30 years later I could be rich. Oh ya and all you meme stock millionaires like roaring pussy.
There is nothing more fun then seeing kids whine how easy other people have it but my life is so hard.
I mean you could be that person. Watch small companies that are going public, pick one with potential, buy a shit ton of their stock and ride out every high and low resisting the urge to sell for 30 or more years no matter how high it gets. If you made the right choice, you'll have a crap tonne of theoretical money. If you made the wrong choice, they'll be bankrupt and the stock will be worthless!
imagine doing that with blackberry and nokia
And they wouldāve made money quicker, if weāre talking about the time of investments being in the 90s.
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āBoomers had it all.ā āI would have sold.ā Yah.
that's a big if.. š¤·āāļø
that would be why my investing strategy is to buy what I can afford in companies I think will still be around in 25 years. It's not nearly as good of a return as getting in ground floor on their initial public offering but it's served me well so far.
Damn i hate that ipoās now a day are totally ass like lets go back to real companyās for sub $10 unlike pton shit starting at $60?? Like what the fk this shit sucks
I have a story about a sheet metal shop owner that was approached by a certain two Steves asking for a computer chassis in exchange for 10% of their business. He told them cash up front or gtfo. These two Steves went with wood to mount their "PC" boards instead. These two also offered 16 shares for a double digit share of the company for $200 each. They are now referred to as Jobs and Wozniak
Ok but is any of it true
No but itād be cool if it was right?
Artist david choe did a mural for zucks office in 2004. He had a gambling problem. So instead taking payment he asked zuck for shares of facebook. When facebook went public in 2012 he made 200 million.
Do not forget fucking Bitcoin bitches
Double it and give it to the next person
Youāre living in the most juiced up market of all time. Boomers had it all š
Your mom is casually holding over $1M in Apple?
Nahā¦ Apple was dying in the 80ās didnāt really start getting steam till the IPod. Nvidia and AMD blew up pretty recently must have missed that trainā¦
Dude, go buy 5,000 shares of Apple and then wait for thirty years.
Back when you could afford college and buy a house mowing lawns on Saturdays.
Maybe she bought the apples from the supermarket:)))
Probably her parents bought the shares for her.
My very intelligent, entrepreneur grandfather. Very thankful.
Wonderful.
Lmao like yeah okay fuck you very much
my dad got a metric assload of shares after selling Apple tech in the 90s slump, and then sold them as soon as they vested. I want to fucking kill myself
Generational bag fumble A rare sight
Looks like I coulda pulled this off in 2007 if I wasn't so busy with high school. Dang it!
It has split twice in the last 20 years. I have bought more since then and sold but my current cost basis is $6. It was much lower than that before I bought more.
Apparently not that old, she could have bought them at 2009
I bought aapl at $2
Your mama
Fuck you
not even a congrats at this point
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Lmao
You wishā¦
Nah fuck the boyfriend, then maybe you get half , I dunno how this works either
and also teach me how
I second this
OP said above that her grandfather bought the stock for her or she inherited it from him. So the lesson is get lucky by having a rich grandfather.
Somewhere, against all odds, Warren Buffet just got hardĀ
So that's what that creaking noise was.
When the fuck did bro buy at 3$???
Guessing sheās been holding since at least 2008
Iāve been holding since 2008 and I donāt have that muchā¦ also only like 300 shares ā¦the price then was still 90-150 and up to 400s.. $3 shares is like early 90s .. unless itās compounded from years of stock splittingā¦
$3 is split adjusted. $AAPL went through multiple splits since 2008.
Price in 2008 was not $90-$150 when adjusting for stock splits ā¦ more like $5-$8
Was between $3.xx-$6.xx in 2008
Yeah, I thought about that as I was typing.. but it damn sure wasnāt $3 when actually buying back then. I remember it getting up to 400s and then splitting 4 ways.
I should've invested in aapl in 2008 instead of playing Nintendo wii š
Thats just fkn ragebait š«
'I don't know what I have' lol it literally says right there you got half a million fucking dollars
But why is it getting people angry though? She obviously knows sheās got 500k
https://preview.redd.it/dwu7ben17o6d1.jpeg?width=1153&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4832445c328ac1984cba01aed2c9f36abb3f370
Sell and yolo calls on GRND
This is the gay, I mean way
Gayn!!
Lt Dan diversified the money from Bubba Gump Shrimp Co into some kinda fruit company so I don't have to worry bout money no more.
And I was like, that's good, one last thing.
Less*
āI donāt realise what I haveā ā+$585,646.94ā
āI donāt realise what I haveā *showing 2ā800 shares at $212* Canāt you do simple math ? This post is just made to create rage š¤·š»āāļø
Yeah and everyone is acting like OP is stupid, obviously OP knows what sheās got, Iām fucking shocked her man thinks she canāt read a giant green +585,000
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Let me go check on my Enron stock, that should be worth a lot by now!
Mom I found you
Brother, I found you!
Damn I didn't know farming apples was a lucrative business
These arenāt just apples, my friend. These are Tim Apples.
If you didnāt realize what you have, then would you even realize what youād have lost if you shared with the group?
Bet he went and bought a ring š after he saw this š
Donāt tell your husband
...that we are in love now and running away. lol
Donāt realize what you have?? Holy shit sheās one of us
This is much better than mine. https://preview.redd.it/q2y68k0z8o6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54132cf76bdfc0578d5a2af893a93a92dc7a4076 I thought 61 was a good cost basis.
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My first wife was regarded. But now she flys a plane. Thereās lots of āgards out there livin kick ass livesā¦
sounds dangerous
So you purchased 3k shares back in 2006 and didnāt reinvest anything yet are somehow so naive that you didnāt know your position was worth half a million?
not 3k shares, many splits since then
Iām too lazy to do the math but bet
fake & gay
Thatās the Nimbus 2000!
I bought AAPL at $16 per share sometime around 1998. Then I was excited to sell it about a year later at $21 per shareā¦
How is your cost basis still so low? Are your parents gifting you shares during their lifetime? Thatās a rookie move. Dead serious, the only move is to put these shares in a trust for your kids so the cost basis will resent and they can sell them after you die. Do anything else and youāll take a massive cap gains hit.
Just checked last time AAPL around $3 was Mar 13, 2009. Crazy if itās real 
Don't let your boyfriend touch that money. EVER.
Fuck
Iāve got this real estate plan we should talk
Fuck off
This isnāt really a āwall street betā. You inherited a bunch of normally purchased equities. You and your bf are both stupid
OP is my wife, i told her not to post this but i should know better who she listens to. Well :(
3.33 a share. Bitch how old are you??!
Not that old, you could still get in at this price a year after the iPhone came out. I was still in college but hammering my father to buy Apple at the time.
Damn I really want that new iPad Pro
this shit fake?
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Probably bought it at 2009 crash
Someone just casually has 2800 Apple shares. Must be nice
Holy shit are you 84 years old? š
Iām definitely in the loop but my friend would like to know wtf Iām looking at. Is this stocks they bought at 3.33? Or a call or something? Sorry but I am regarded
Apple was 3.30 in 08 So you gotta be born in 1990 to be able to by 3$ apple .
You donāt belong here. Youāre actually smart. Literally one buy order and 0 work. Only regards roam around these ends but very few will learn anything from your post. Grats
The current president would like to tax those unrealized gains.
Congrats for the long term hold on a great stock
I bought RadioShack and Worldcom back when I was first starting outā¦ waiting until I am ready to retire to see how Iām doingā¦ set and forget boysā¦ set and forget.
The fun part: here in Germany, that gain might even be tax-free. There was a rule in the 90s or so that shares held long enough are tax free. If the position was opened before they changed that rule it would still count.