Comments on: My Dumbest Investment http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/my-dumbest-investment/ One Guy's Journey to Passive Income Through Dividend Investing Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Advice for Impateint Investor » The Dividend Guy Blog http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/my-dumbest-investment/comment-page-1/#comment-44955 Advice for Impateint Investor » The Dividend Guy Blog Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:05:15 +0000 http://thedividendguyblog.com/?p=23#comment-44955 [...] course, if you read my prior post on it you will see how it worked out. This is an example of an active investor passing on dollars [...] [...] course, if you read my prior post on it you will see how it worked out. This is an example of an active investor passing on dollars [...]

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]]> By: Canadian Capitalist http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/my-dumbest-investment/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Canadian Capitalist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://thedividendguyblog.com/?p=23#comment-48 My dumb investments cost me many times what my university education costs!<BR/><BR/>http://canadiancapitalist.blogspot.com/2005/04/my-dumbest-investment.html My dumb investments cost me many times what my university education costs!

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]]> By: Caitlin http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/my-dumbest-investment/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Caitlin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://thedividendguyblog.com/?p=23#comment-49 great post! I think it's important to be reminded that you can make mistakes and still succeed. <BR/><BR/>I've only invested once in stock, and blew it. not because my choice was so bad, but because I didn't have a strategy and I didnt watch my stock. I bought IOM when Zip and Jaz disks were all the rage. I had missed the big spike when it climbed to 50, but was thinking "buy and hold" but I "bought and ignored". When I was buying my house, I looked up that account and if I had sold three months prior, I would have made a small sum, but I think I broke even (prices were plummeting so I guess it was good I caught it in time)<BR/><BR/>The lesson it taught me, was to not invest until a) I really had the money to do so and b) I knew what I was doing (at the very least have a sell strategy and watch the price so i can enact it)<BR/><BR/>I'm working on both A and B and hope to join the fray within a year :) great post! I think it’s important to be reminded that you can make mistakes and still succeed.

I’ve only invested once in stock, and blew it. not because my choice was so bad, but because I didn’t have a strategy and I didnt watch my stock. I bought IOM when Zip and Jaz disks were all the rage. I had missed the big spike when it climbed to 50, but was thinking “buy and hold” but I “bought and ignored”. When I was buying my house, I looked up that account and if I had sold three months prior, I would have made a small sum, but I think I broke even (prices were plummeting so I guess it was good I caught it in time)

The lesson it taught me, was to not invest until a) I really had the money to do so and b) I knew what I was doing (at the very least have a sell strategy and watch the price so i can enact it)

I’m working on both A and B and hope to join the fray within a year :)

]]> By: Madame X http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/my-dumbest-investment/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Madame X Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://thedividendguyblog.com/?p=23#comment-50 My dumbest investment was 50 shares of GM. I bought it because the dividend yield was so high, but it was right before their financial problems suddenly became front page news. It's been down as much as 45% from when I bought, though it's only about -28% right now. My dumbest investment was 50 shares of GM. I bought it because the dividend yield was so high, but it was right before their financial problems suddenly became front page news. It’s been down as much as 45% from when I bought, though it’s only about -28% right now.

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