"My goal in AMFE is to break to a new all-time high value since I began trading in earnest in 1999 and I feel confident I have a reasonable shot"
Tough to hear you are not above your 199 high. Sorry man. I'm up over 5,200% since 1991, when I opened a partnership to track things. Compounding has a way of making that number look good though. Going up 10% now is a huge gain based on the original amount, so that skews it upward. Still, not unhappy with that return, especially after the dumps of 2000, the real estate of 2007, and 2009. Was higher at times then lower, but mostly consistently moving up. I moved from stocks to real estate in 2009, and held rentals (121 of them at my peak 18 months ago. UGH! a LOT of work) and now selling them off again at LARGE profits. That helped. And I like AMFE too, with a good sized position. If this CEO Roger does a good job, I'll be in AMFE for years to come. I see this as similar to other early franchise opportunities. I'm not a big fan of the MJ part of the company, (to each his own, guys) as I think he has a super winner in S&L, so I think he should eventually spin off the MJ sub also. But I really like this stock. This is the ONLY stock I own right now that I think I shall be in as long as five years from now (if he follows the plan I think he should. LOL As if he'd listen to me.) But still, if he keeps going with S&L and franchises it out, and does things with the games and does all that he can, yep, I'll be here five years from now and I think we shall be on one of the big boards. If I'm still HERE (on this earth) five years from now.
I hope you recover and hit new highs. And I hope AMFE does it good for both of us and all the others here on this board. Oh, and I'm in the Anthem country club, just north of Phoenix. Not too far from your old stomping grounds. years and years ago I used to go to a weekly auction i Mesa, where they sold stuff from garage sales and estates, and then I'd sell them on Ebay. Made good money doing it, but don't hvae the time to do that sort of thing anymore. Doing ten items took ten times as much time as one item. Makes sense. Doing ten times as many shares takes the same time as one share. SO as the portfolio grew, the investments changed, as did my time constraints. Don't like the summers, but still good weather in Arizona overall. Until climate change hits us soon!