[crying] Bought $10k AMZN late-1999, sold in late-2000, because it lost like 50% value. A very expensive lesson learned not to play in the market. Ironically I now both know better than to buy individual stocks, but also have the fortitude to stick it out.
VTSAX and chiill.
haha!!
Unrelated/related: it was Stargate that sort of cemented my atheism. I hadn’t thought much about my own “-ism” until I was watching the show (I was also at an age to start thinking about those things). Up until then I was just an apathetic non-religious, didn’t really think about “god” at all either way. Stargate triggered my apathy into coherent and connected thoughts along the same themes as Stargate’s, “there are no gods; if there are they suck anyway; fight the power!”
yes I’m well aware of how much I screwed up. Also owned a few grand of Applied Material (AMAT); bought and sold around the same time.
Then again, when I sold it felt like they were gonna be the next .com bubble victim. I panicked. It was a very expense lesson at the time. Even more so now in retrospect.