[ElevenLathe]

Fair point, but without an engraved prophecy from a licensed and bonded deity, I probably wouldn't have bought AAPL or MSFT in 1988 either, certainly not with the intent of holding it until 2025. I would have been wrong in some sense, but one has to take on the risks one is comfortable with. I'd rather hold a broad index and focus on other things!

[scottiebarnes]

Fair enough.

As someone who bought NVDA in 2016/2017 and held till now, I'm very happy with the way I applied my software knowledge to profit where I won't have to work again.

Risk taking is best done in domains where you have an edge!

[ElevenLathe]

I'm curious: Did you hedge your 2017 NVDA bet so that it was literally just on the performance of that one stock?

[scottiebarnes]

I bought shares, a sum that I could afford to lose but also a non-trivial amount.

As it went up, I occasionally sold some and took profit, but not much, till now.

I saw how important and productive machine learning was, and it seemed like NVDA had an excellent CUDA moat, so that was my thesis for that bet. In the last couple years I sold some and bought a house.

This is obviously a story with survivorship bias. But anyway my superpower isn't technical knowledge, its the lack of emotion and bias towards non-action when markets tumble. As you probably know, time in the market is better than timing the market.