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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Mist
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A good one?
I put over 90k a year into investments the past four years straight, not even counting the 22k for my 401k, and according to you people all I do is fix voicemail boxes.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Mist
REEEEeyore
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Gravel
Mr. Poopybutthole
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I dipped my toes into individual stocks and it went like hell.Fuck @Khane he paper-handed his PLTR shares like the rest of us losers.
Bought AMC during that whole Gamestop period for maybe $15 ($1000 total). Went up to $25 I think and that's when the fuckery happened and I couldn't sell. I think I got out and it was $10. Took a 1/3 haircut there.
Left it in that account and eventually bought PLTR around $20. Went up to $25 and I'm like fuck yeah, let it ride. Fell to $10 and I sold. Was down another 1/3 of my initial investment ($300ish)
Started more actively trading it and was able to buy back in at $6. I don't remember the exact details, but I eventually sold it to where I was only down 50% of my initial AMC investment ($500).
Decided to cut my losses and never actively trade again. Even though $1000 was 0.01% of my portfolio, it still hurt.
Had I kept holding that PLTR though, holy shit.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Mist
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The only individual stock that went horribly for me was INTC.
Buying META felt like a fantastic gain, selling for a quick 55% return; then it continued to run up another 400%.
The only thing I've consistently made reliable money on trading was Greyscale ETH. Even that I was down 75% at one point, but I kept averaging down.
Buying META felt like a fantastic gain, selling for a quick 55% return; then it continued to run up another 400%.
The only thing I've consistently made reliable money on trading was Greyscale ETH. Even that I was down 75% at one point, but I kept averaging down.
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Cad
scientia potentia est
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Hey I'm joining you soon on that one. But I'm still going to passively invest. I'm going to actively fuck off and do no actual work, though.
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Attorney. Specialist doctor. Finance. AI. Business owner. Corporate management. Upper-echelon software development. Pimp. OnlyFans.
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karma
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I live vicariously through the people in this thread, while I squirrel away a few bucks hoping one day it will amount to something.
GD did I make so many bad life choices lol, sometimes it gets hard to wrap my head around the kind of money you guys trade/invest. Not sure I could take the risk if I had it!
GD did I make so many bad life choices lol, sometimes it gets hard to wrap my head around the kind of money you guys trade/invest. Not sure I could take the risk if I had it!
Arden
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Pimps have taken a big hit in recent years, actually. It's just not the profession it used to be.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Wait until you add up all the hours/days/weeks/months/years you spent playing MMOs, then you will truly grasp bad life choices.
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karma
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I was one of the first handful of people to ebay my EQ character. I sold it for ~$1500 and I figure I made about $0.75 an hour.
Wait till I price out my time investment in my kids!
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Rangoth
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This one hit me hard a few years ago. I did not look up the actual hours but I started to ask myself, "Why do I care about collecting all the little badger pelts?" or whatever. I still like and play video games but *mostly* gave up MMO's and stopped trying to 100% everything. I just play for the story now and if I enjoy it, after the story is over I will run around and do the little achievements.
That alone cut my video game time in half easily. Anyway back to investing
BITO paid me just shy of 10k again this month, 0.93/share!
Falstaff
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This is like my Facebook holdings. Bought at $38 after the IPO in my wife’s little IRA from an old job. I think she had like $2200 in there? I just used it all. She doesn’t even know about it. Will be fun in 20 years to show her assuming it maintains like this.
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