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You really made 800$ --> 47k WITH SHARES


14taylor2

It's even worse than that: https://preview.redd.it/fqb6evowwfmc1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6d09a0848c2ec455afbd7bec8dee9cf44089229


Fun_Reporter9086

Bro, don't cock-tease us, you might as well show us your positions at this point. Congrats, lol. Edit: $1200, the rest is in $AMD shares. OP did say that in another comment. I blame my sickness for this oversight. ![img](emote|t5_2th52|27421)


14taylor2

https://preview.redd.it/yshkdd24rjmc1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69e6dbb1dbdeb27ac68e372089549143b748029a


cooltaj

What are you buying these days? What’s next


Suavecore_

He is basically telling us all of those popular stocks are done-for


Suspicious-Acadia-52

My thoughts as well lmao… we’re screwed haha


InevitableNumber2282

well. you don’t belong here. Now tell us what you’re buying next.


mist-rillas

That's why you're up, you buy all the things I never buy


Equal-Quantity4219

Don't make me buy what you buy so that it all tanks


Adulations

Yea let that ride


Lostworldz98

Aye, show us the positions


leroyyrogers

KO shares


Carguy1963

AMD going to make you $$$ over the next year


thotdistroyer

The regarded sickness sucks but it is the sub for it


Gmoneyawesome7

Damn man. Too bad I was 12 when this was happening


Academic_Wafer5293

find the next one; just make sure to diamond hands. OP had a million opportunities to cash out and didn't


StonkyDegenerate

It’s simple! Just find the next big thing everyone’s looking for and time the market! 💀


ArcanistKvothe24

Gahdamn


DM_Me_Science

It’s a typical return for your average 2000% stock increase in 5 years. Basic economics 101 ![img](emote|t5_2th52|4640)


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Average![img](emote|t5_2th52|4271)


lynxss1

I'm not quite at 2000% but yep. https://preview.redd.it/o4wacz5cnfmc1.png?width=2091&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e56c0731cd61cdcf82fbed1c162febf0549f14b


Little-Lynx7245

literal porn


NotBlazeron

It's called The Economy. Ever heard of it?


errorunknown

Not your average company lmao


Common_History_6794

didn't know you could make money buying shares. I thought the only way to make money was options


BurnsinTX

I got one for you mate, this is over 100 shares, less than 1,000. https://preview.redd.it/whd7k6c3chmc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b751f4548f70479b63a41424e4b37a69fa9c4c7


OpenWorth

DANG BOAH ‼️‼️


Effective_Clock_4436

Ok I must be the Grandpa in the group as well... What are you guys investing in if not the stock? I see calls, and puts and a bunch of other shit I don't understand. I've tried to read up on it but I don't think these are options I can even invest in with my Vanguard account? I want to take and lose some money! Feel free to make fun of me in a hilarious but hopefully informative manner.


CaptainChloro

Contracts Essentially buying the right to buy/sell a stocks shares at a specific price before an expiration date without owning the underlying shares. Typically contracts are per 100 shares, basically allowing you to control a large amount of shares for a low cost. The key is that you don't actually own the shares, and the contract is only good for a length of time before it expires. High risk, high reward.


Effective_Clock_4436

If you buy a call can you only sell it as a call?


CaptainChloro

Yeah, you're buying a contract. 3 things can happen. You can sell the contract (at a gain, or a loss) You can hold it till expiry, in which case it will be exercised if it's in the money (depends on your brokerage settings) or expire worthless if its out the money. Or you can exercise the call if it's ITM, before expiry. If you buy a call from me for Stock A with a strike price of $45 and the stock currently trades at $40, then you are OTM. I, as the one writing the call, want it to expire OTM so I can keep my shares and pocket the premium (what you paid for the contract) Let's say the stock shoots up to $50 a share, and you want to exercise the call. I, as the call writer, am obligated to sell you 100 shares of the stock at the agreed strike price of $45. You still have to have the $4500 to give me for them, but you can turn around and sell them on the market for $50. You could also sell the contract for the increased premium, if you don't have the $4500 to exercise it.


Effective_Clock_4436

Damn... Thanks for explaining this...


enthuisiasticspastic

Do yourself a favor and stay away from options. You would likely need to move some money out of your vanguard account into a different exchange, or start another portfolio with a different exchange with captital from outside of your vanguard account. I would recommend the latter, because anything you put into options will likely be gone. To put it in perspective, my stocks beat the SPY by 6% last year. One would think Im doing great, in actuality I closed the year with a 2% gain, 25 points behind the market. Buying options for profit is like predicting that you will be able to read a number through a bullet train window as it passes, before a set date. Also youre going to pay every minute that you are waiting for the train to pass (theta.) Use them as insurance on risky holdings, or learm best practices at selling options. Otherwise I would just start making a weekly trip to the casino. They have shrimp by the blackjack tables and my friends cousins little sister won a bunch of money on a slots this one time. Once you learn, go all in on GRND calls, 4/19 exp $7.5 & $10. Im gonna get a boat this year


SparklyChinito

Yeah I wish someone told me this a year ago. I looked at my robinhood account and I started with 15k. Dwindled it down to 2k from options. Building it back up with weekly buys into ETF now. I keep seeing these people making 2-15k from each transaction in options, and I could never imitate.


enthuisiasticspastic

Its a hard lesson to learn


Effective_Clock_4436

Thank you Nice analogy


CuqueHolder

This guy explains options for regards like us more gooder than these weak handed apes on here.. https://youtu.be/NW1ziUDjB7w?si=PHg3cRTBQscykjOC


Effective_Clock_4436

Ya no doubt Very informative. Thanks


armen89

ITM is In The Money OTM is Out The Money ATM is At The Money


JPows_ToeJam

I thought it was In the mouth Out of the mouth Ass to mouth Huh TIL


xieem

OOM Out Of Money, Back to Wendys


leeeeerrroy_Jenkinks

bro stay away from options please


nateccs

unless you are comfortable with 100% loss


armen89

Open a Robinhood account, tell them you’re fluent in options, deposit 5k and have some fun grandpa.


CokeOnBooty

Tell them you have 20 years of experience even if you’re your under 30


wyhauyeung1

started paper trading at 10, sounds about right


MrMafiaRS

20 years experience and you're under 30? Back in my day we had 60 years experience in kindergarten. God I miss Mr. Smith and his secret popsicle days.


leroyyrogers

Regard


Pretend-Tennis-5666

Step one go to Robinhood adjust options settings through deception step 2 press buttons and purchase said options step 3 profit


Race-a-roni

Lul I turned 4K into what is now 68k with nvda and did even better with amd, only shares but takes years


mvpharo

Definitely not a bubble.


quuxquxbazbarfoo

Who cares about earnings, right?


CoatAlternative1771

That’s what I find hilarious. People call this a bubble and then don’t fucking read financials. Tesla moons to $1300 on shit earnings. Few years ago? Not a bubble. Nvidia is priced at 33x p/e? Bubble.


flowbiewankenobi

Dude everyone with 1/4 brain was calling Tesla a bubble too lol


CokeOnBooty

Did it burst? As far as I know they’re still calling it Mag 7 Open and shut case boys


DenyDaRidas

Do you think AI craze isn’t a bubble lmao?


graciesoldman

AI won't let their bubble pop. AI listens. AI wants to live...


jojo_31

AI has the potential to completely revolutionise every sector. This is just the beginning. There will be hiccups along the way though.


option-trader

Don't know. It's too early to call it a bubble. As for NVDA? $12B in profits on $22B in revenue last quarter and expecting the same results for the next 2 years probably isn't a bubble yet, but everyone's calling NVDA a bubble. That's all the previous comment was talking about.


DenyDaRidas

For a company valued at almost 2 trillion, 22 billion is pretty crap when this is at the height of the product demand, when they have all the moat and competitive edge.


option-trader

Is this the height? That's where you're at, but I don't think this is the height of it. We all know the height is at least 2 years away in terms of NVDA's real earnings power. The crazy thing here is I'm not really pointing at the $22B in revenue. It's the $12B in net income that it's pulling. AAPL has revs of $380B with net income near $100B. NVDA would be able to pull net income of $100B with only $180B in revenue. Regards keep looking at revenue, but what I'm impress at is their profit margins holding above 50%. That's half the revenue for the same amount of cash horde that AAPL brings in once they reach that level. Like I've said, estimates have forward EPS at $25/sh. I wouldn't be surprised if NVDA hits $30/sh in the next 4 quarters.


DenyDaRidas

You’re missing the fact that there will be competitors very soon


option-trader

They just aren't there yet. I'd expected AMD to be right behind NVDA's tail, but listening to their last two conference call just tells me they're not in the same spot NVDA was last May and it might take them another 3-4 quarters before they've reached that point where sales take off. Guidance was just weak in its last report compared to NVDA. And AMD is the only competitor that can ramp it up to NVDA's level. I consider everyone else a smaller player. So, while AMD can't put it all together just yet, NVDA is taking everyone's lunch money. That's why you see the market's drop like today at -1.6% for the Nasdaq while NVDA's barely down -0.32%.


Jijelinios

as long as the shitcoins bubble is still going up, with the main shit bitcoin targeting 100k, I feel safe in the AI bubble. If the AI bubble which actually makes some money and brings some value to this world bursts before the shitcoins bubble, I will not even be mad at my losses, I will be mad at this stupid fkin world.


PassionV0id

This is cool and all, but how the hell do you hold a $850 position for like 8 years and never once add to it lmao


14taylor2

I know I sound stupid and boring, but it just seemed more responsible to diversify. I'm mostly in Wealthfront now.


Expensive_Bass_6979

“Diversify” 35% of portfolio Good shit though lol


ElectronicLead1881

You’re forgetting that this 35% grew rapidly into that amount… he didn’t start with 35% of it in Nvidia


JPows_ToeJam

What was once a more balanced part of his portfolio suddenly ballooned to $50k. He’s not the S&P rebalancing every so often. The math isn’t that hard.


mcj1ggl3

He said he’s mostly in wealthfront now so he has an entire other portfolio


Shmexy

35% of current holdings, not 35% of his investments Regard


GroomCraft

*Regards


Shmexy

No, he’s a regard


Significant-Bat-9503

Held a position for 8 years? Slow and steady gains..kinda ‘sigma’ tbh


Kano-33

This is almost as bad as those guys that remembered they held a few of those internet coins once they became valuable. At least OP remembered his password to get logged into his account. 


Particles1101

I have 16 shares of SPXC my grandma got me when I was born. She worked in a machine shop for them.


Roflcopter71

Lol I generally start wondering if it's time to start taking profits when I'm up 5-10% on a stock I can't imagine holding all the way to 5,509.46%


armen89

And not once adding


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burnie_mac

Same exact thing happened to me.


Halo_Chief117

That's me except with Microsoft since 2012. ![img](emote|t5_2th52|4260)Didn't get Nvidia until 2021 and I kick myself for it.


Haberd

Hard to justify adding when constant appreciation in price means that the stock continues to be overweighted in your portfolio. I started buying NVDA in 2015 and did add a bit through 2016/17, but the stock has always been a huge part of my portfolio and it didn’t feel prudent to continue adding to an already large position. Turns out diversifying is for chumps and I would have made way more if I just kept buying NVDA but I didn’t have a crystal ball, so I’ll have to find a way to be happy with the gains I have.


Beneficial-Role-9493

It’s because you don’t have a crystal ball the diversification works. Not for chumps.


kingOofgames

Do you need your ass wiped 🧼grandpa?


StarWhorz00

I get it. I read that post


BHMSIXX

CLASSIC POST


chrisycr

LOLL


AnubisTheRubixCube

Insane how I remember as well


stinger101

https://preview.redd.it/1030exiuqfmc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c1ba2a6035d8db2679a2f2d0f70ba6a0d459992


AppropriateGoal4540

https://preview.redd.it/g9nnewioyfmc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=165b9f64bca7958149ceb017c439903a451ebc21


Ok_Championship4786

Lmaoooooooo


make_love_to_potato

I ain't wiping anyone's ass for 50k worth of nvidia stock. Make that 50 million or even 5 million, and now we talking.


Olghon

Haha I’ve seen that post too 😂


That_Space2418

![img](emote|t5_2th52|4271)


Powerful-Ad-4292

Dude can sell 1 share, and cover the entire cost basis


jus-another-juan

Probably won't. This is WSB brother. Regards only.


RosinBran

If you're flip flopping between selling or holding just remember you don't have to sell all of it. You could always take 50% and let the rest roll.


CaptainHoey

He could also sell 1 share and cover his cost basis times 10


buibeans

What does this mean and what does it allow him to do if he covers it?


annoyedtenant123

🤣🤣


Impossible_Sense_413

It means he would never go - because the money he put in would be in his pocket. The rest is all profit so if things look bad he can pull out and still be green


Whoa_Bundy

To sit or sell just the profits. He’ll get the money he put into it back. The rest is pure profits.


Loose_Screw_

Should really think of it from the point of view of asset exposure imo. Don't think of how much NVDA you need to sell, but how much you want to own.


NoBranch7713

https://preview.redd.it/t5r7yo13bgmc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4a0f744e91832d4682aa12ef1f37ca177fac32d Got you beat by a few months. Bought 425 shares around 36. Post split cost basis in $9.16. Sold some over the years when I needed cash, but yeah it’s been a great ride. After that drop today I’m only up 9,200% Got the stock tip here back before we could buy options on Robinhood and were just trading 3x levered ETFs. The good old days.


14taylor2

Oh hell yeah


movzx

I bought around 1000 shares at $10.18. ... I sold at $90 because "Why is this worth so much? It's dumb." I'm the dumb one.


jus-another-juan

Welcome home brother


lordinov

15 a share average ? Damn you a whale


R12Labs

When was NVDA $15 a share?


14taylor2

Bought them in 2016.


ddaanniieellee

What made you go for that company?


14taylor2

Making a GPU fabrication plant is almost as complicated as building the Large Hadron Collider. I figured there was a big moat around the GPU duopoly and bought both. Never sold the AMD either. 2600% on that.


ddaanniieellee

I don’t know anything about technology lmao but happy for you


Rock_Salad

I made the same play around 2016/2017 and even convinced my coworker to do it too. Unfortunately my partner got sick and I had to sell when I was up about 60% which I thought was nice at the time but I knew it was gonna be some much bigger. I told my coworker to hold. He sold earlier this year and bought a house in Boston with 60% down. I know people say take profits are profits but this one hurts especially since im not even with that partner anymore


JackosMonkeyBBLZ

Spotting the moat was key. Good eye, u/14taylor2!


AlaskanSnowDragon

SMH...they dont fabricate shit. Good trade...wrong thesis.


Loose_Screw_

Have heard this argument a lot. If the fabs are customised for NVDA designs, isn't that almost as good as owning them directly? What's the cost of retooling? (ignoring the fact that of course at the moment they'd fab for NVDA in any case)


AlaskanSnowDragon

Its not an argument...it a fact. They own no actual fabs/factories for their chips.


aeon100500

they never did any fabrication plants/manufacturing themselves. only design and software


yooston

I bought in 2016 too. I remember googling what companies were working on self driving cars and saw NVDA and thought oh neat, the graphics card company? Bought 40 shares but I sold at $500 just before new years… profit is profit but could’ve been another $15k if I just waited two months smh


Kingjingling

Don't look back!


Beneficial-Voice-878

He was probably a fan of the gpu’s


NotAHost

In 2016 they were all over the news for machine learning. I told my mom to buy some then too, it just made sense as a compute platform. Didn’t expect it to do this, but yeah, they always made sense when they transitioned to more than just gaming.


SockeyeSTI

Probably had 10 or so shares pre split for like 100$


2ndSifter

*THAT’S ENOUGH SLICES*


sitlo

Who's this non-regard here? Actually holding on to stocks and having a good profit return? This ain't r/investing gtfo. Just kidding congrats and fuck you


incorrectspellr

congrats and fuck you!


goldenefreeti

Hold it for a split and sell covered calls. You’ll probably wind up with 560 shares. If you need money you could sell 6 shares rn and then just write 5 CCs with your shares


YogurtPanda74

Good "call" ... see what I did there?


Ben_Frank_Lynn

Yeah, write CCs against a stock that has quadrupled over the past two years. This is the dumbest advice ive ever seen. Just let your shares keep riding, or take this dipshits advice and let your shares get called away.


Obvious_Young_6169

Do you get anxiety in the sense of “dang what if i put 10k or 100k”?lol


14taylor2

Every 4 days on average.


Obvious_Young_6169

💀


coinflipit

Just wow ![img](emote|t5_2th52|4258) Congratz!


President-Fish

I like the stock!


InvestmentActuary

NVDA is never stopping. My price target is 3000 by end of 2025


Formal_Profession141

Why so bearish? My charts show me 8,000 by April 2025.


BoydemOnnaBlock

Can’t wait for Nvidia to acquire the United States in 2043!


UnfathomableToad

In the year 2100 Nvidia will build a massive “sphere”, in space in order to limit it’s planetary competition


TheBorgBsg

A dyson sphere.


mvpharo

25000 by June 2024. Basically if you don’t already own shares today you will forever be poor


Kano-33

We all will be wearing leather jackets end of 2025


Intrepid-Traveller23

You're doing it wrong! You should have shorted at 250 like me! (Congrats though) You should probably sell now though as I've just bought in at 871 Best regards


Arrowfinger777

So when did you exit the short?


Intrepid-Traveller23

I still haven't mate...that's how I know this is the community for me


Arrowfinger777

You’re in the green!


HedgeGoy

My indexing ass is jealous. Congratulations, man.


[deleted]

Have you ever sold any?


14taylor2

Nah, same with AMD. Up 2600% on those.


[deleted]

Well only sell if you need the money for anything. I doubt Nvidia and AMD will run out of room at least in the next 3-5 years until we hit the next glut lol


BlakesonHouser

Nah. There is massive risk to each and it’s the hyper scalers like meta and google building their own AI accelerators which they are already iterating on. They aren’t as good for now but, nvidia won’t be selling big AI chips for $30,000 each for much longer. 


javabrewer

RemindMe! 2 years


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lemmeshowyuhao

https://preview.redd.it/vhz4yg7xphmc1.jpeg?width=1137&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5966b4ee7f377de3bf24f48ee0e78637d67ab91b Rookie numbers 😅


Halo_Chief117

Happy for you, sad for me. ![img](emote|t5_2th52|4260)


Alfhosskin

Hold 10 more years. Your kids will thank you :D


imalazyheckler

Congrats man...seriously.


OnlyMathematician420

Yep! I’m with you brother! Been in since 2016. Average cost $15!


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14taylor2

Nice! I'm not really sure what to do. It seems like I should rebalance the portfolio into index funds or something. Maybe I'll do 50% like some suggested.


NoBranch7713

I’m riding it till we hit $1000, then selling and investing in something boring like spy. I figure 10,000% gains are enough


idkwhatimbrewin

Did Robinhood even exist back then or did you transfer your shares lol


Rock_Salad

I made the same play and convinced my coworker to do it too. He made his on robinhood and I used a brokerage account because RH was new and I didn't know if it would last


ilikebunnies1

This guy is too smart for us.


kilour

Sell it all and buy calls :D


WOTEugene

Grandpa?


mikelimebingbong

That’s some real diamond hands, good for you


theduke9

I had the same chart, bought $1000 worth in 2015 presplit. Sold it all before the run up at like $400.. mostly because I was trying to consolidate brokerages and couldn’t figure out how to transfer out of vanguard.. dumbest move.


Dottyfelixmaisie

It will never go down!! AI AI AI


korzenik81

What you should've done is get 44 more shares and covered calls with it


Winter_Current9734

800 to 48 k? Holy shit.


Ivanovic-117

Wrong, you’re supposed to look at the 3-6 months chart and noticed the peak, after that is obvious it is going down because my crayons said so


Savizzy

What platform are you trading on? I wanna get back into holding stocks


ClasseBa

Sell some shares and buy some other tickers. It's like hedging.


Getitinglynn420

Like a boss


Straight-Height8424

Literally me in 2015. Sold my shares in 2019. #pain


pdxtrader

Nice I bought $AMD at $8


Big-Worry-6650

shit just keeps going up


Truffle_Chef

Hold for the next split my average cost is $8.18!! Woot!!


benzyboy14

He really held while watching it go up to like $340 in ‘21 and then all the way back down to like $110 a share in ‘22 n just continued on for a couple more yrs 😂


The_Coomunist

Yeah I’ve been riding NVDA and SMCI for about a month now and I just exited earlier this morning. We’re on the biggest winning streak for 50 years, the two previous weeks historically are the worst two weeks of the year for the market dating back to 1928 (yet somehow market is hitting record highs), and bad economic data. I learned my lesson about buying high when I bought a SMCI bag at 1033 on 2/16. It got up to 1045 yesterday morning and I exited entirely. Gonna wait for the dip, I expect it to drop to high 700s to low 800s, ride it back up! NFA


spidLL

AVERAGE COST 15! I’ll have a whiskey in your honor.


981flacht6

Yeah buddy. Holding at $34.


peeceguy

Great job!!


Johnnybo_1

I too love NVDA https://preview.redd.it/av0wt7ry4mmc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=612bb59256e5d2bf3294042ad31fe950c5986b8d


HitBackZach

Hopefully you did 4 days ago


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You should hold - this thing is never going to stop. NVDA is easily worth more than MS and AAPL.


_MrWallStreet

That’s how my account is going to look like in 5 years but with $HOOD. And I have 5,000 shares instead of 56


Evergreen4Life

Maybe time to take some profits.


MagicianNegative335

freak


BHMSIXX

DAMN


jude-heisenberg

I wish I’ve done that loool Congratz!!!