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Re: ebaykamel post# 31759

Monday, 03/10/2014 4:11:36 AM

Monday, March 10, 2014 4:11:36 AM

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Thanks for your response. I know all about missing opportunities. When I first started investing in 2010, I had no idea what I was doing but I had guts. I put everything into Apple. 100 shares at $269.90. Sold just about all of them a week or so later when some weird glitch made many stocks drop, Apple in particular hit $220 something and I freaked out and hit the PANIC SELL button. I repurchased shares a day or so later when they rocketed back up to the initial price I bought them. Out of frustration and 20 shares shorter than I was originally, I waited until I broke even and bailed - thinking I'll never invest again; it's too volatile. Oh and then they went on to hit $700+ a share. Lucky me.

Fast forward to 2013 when I had an eye on Tesla's rise. (I had bought a few shares during its IPO at $17 and sold them off in the $20 range. Wasn't much of a profit because I didn't buy that much.) This got my attention again and my interest in investing had been summoned from the dead. I messed with it and made a few hundred bucks last summer. "Cool," I thought. "This can be done." Made 50% on Facebook, then found XXII after having discovered iHub. Made a very nice return on XXII and now I'm here with a chance to blow the lid off anything I thought was even possible. It could go sour, I'm aware. But damn that reward for being so much prettier than the risk!

You're right though. Pennyland is a strange place to be. Dreams can be realized here alongside shattered hopes and despair. And it can all happen in the blink of an eye.

EDIT: I have a good feeling though, and I don't believe it to be unreasonable, that this could hit 2 cents again sometime this year. If it does, I'll be better off than not acting on it (as described) at all.

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