Anyone here willing to share their best and worst investment moves they made in their lifetime? My best move is buying NVDA 5 years ago and worst move is betting too much on penny stocks.

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Best investment move was turning $10k into $250k through a managed futures strategy. Worst investment move was losing all of that and then $250k trying to fix the strategy when it stopped working.

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Not my story, but my old man had a story about how he got a stock tip from some advisors he met at lunch or something while working on a tug boat back in the late 70s/early 80s to pool money together with his coworkers and buy into a new IPO called Texas Instruments. He did not take that advice.

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He was a hell of a storyteller. He joked when get got back from Vietnam and worked on the tugboats for a few years he didn’t even know what a tugboat was when he took the job. He was way more outgoing than me, always chatting up people.

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