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2025 / 2026 Investment Thread

WoodsChick said:
I wrote quadrupled, but when Blankpage said tripled in his post, I went back to check it out just to see. It is more than tripled, but less than quadrupled. I should probably edit that! But, yeah, I hear you. Thank you for your input, Reli.



Haha! Yeah, we won't be bringing one of those home any time soon, although they are pretty damned sexy. Where would we put the cat carriers and the litter box? Do they offer tow packages for them?
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I knew you typed quadruple and that’s what I was thinking when I was replying but for some reason I typed triple, got my wires crossed. I was probably distracted by imagining all those cats living the life eating Grey Poupon looking out the window of a Rolls and thinking how much Kattegat would enjoy that. But here she is playing with a plastic bag and seemingly not knowing what she’s missing, life is what you make of it I guess.


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Blankpage said:
I knew you typed quadruple and that’s what I was thinking when I was replying but for some reason I typed triple, got my wires crossed. I was probably distracted by imagining all those cats living the life eating Grey Poupon looking out the window of a Rolls and thinking how much Kattegat would enjoy that. But here she is playing with a plastic bag and seemingly not knowing what she’s missing, life is what you make of it I guess.


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We've had several cats that love plastic.

Very odd.
 
Mercer barfed up an entire gigantic plastic wrapper from a huge tray of Costco meat, and it was still in one piece! That was the day we spent $50 on a plastic garbage can with a locking lid on it, so now we can’t afford that Rolls Royce :mad
 
WoodsChick said:
Mercer barfed up an entire gigantic plastic wrapper from a huge tray of Costco meat, and it was still in one piece! That was the day we spent $50 on a plastic garbage can with a locking lid on it, so now we can’t afford that Rolls Royce :mad
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You could probably find enough in your couch cushions for that Rolls but then you don’t get rich by spending frivolously. Besides the cats won’t know a Rolls from a Bentley, shop around for slightly used.
 
Das MotorRad said:
Typically when you inherit something, your cost basis is the FMV at the time of inheritance. That is why I mentioned 2021. May not take care of all of the sting of capital gains, but it will help :)

I would ask your financial advisor to confirm that your cost basis of your inherited stocks are properly reflecting their value as of 2021. If they are not, then you may be overestimating your unrealized gains.
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I just looked at the cost basis on our account, and I also looked up what a split-adjusted Nvidia share was worth on the day Pop died, and they are the same… $29.91.

I just wanted to be sure I had accurate information.
 
Reli said:
I wouldn't be angry, but I'd tell her to stop being so risky. I doubt there are any credentialed advisors who would put so much of their client's money into one stock. It certainly worked out for her, but tomorrow it might not.
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Isn't this a Roth? Back in the day that was just what a few gs?

Nvidia was already in a GPU war and had all sorts of crazy deep connections already. It has been a household name since the late 90s.

It dominated the entire GPU segment from the beginning of graphic cards

Tbh that's like taking a annual year and dumping into a high value low risk asset like a msft or intel or coca cola or pfizer etc, some huge conglomerate that has capitol to pivot in the 21st century. NVDA was not a diamond in the rough is what I am trying to say.

If ppl don't see the 2nd chapter for NVDA, it's just like Amazon and apple and Google, this is basically their 2nd chapter rht meow
 
NVDA is already 7.5% of the S&P 500's total worth. So owning an S&P 500 fund is already giving you a lot of NVDA, plus diversification into 499 other stocks.

Much less headache for the ordinary investor.

IMO, owning individual stocks is only for experienced investors who have researched that stock and have a plan for how they will keep doing that research to evaluate whether that stock is still a keeper. I'm guessing at least 95% of investors don't do that.
 
Don’t do any of that and my biggest holdings for over a decade has been Google and Apple, glad I didn’t listen to anyone back then suggesting the S&P instead.
 
It didn't take a crystal ball to see that amazon, Google and Apple we're going to be market leaders and Titans for the foreseeable future
 
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