Your first stock and what happened??

gotta_trade · Jun 7, 2003

Do you remember the first stock that you ever purchased?

It was a little over 20 years ago. I think that I was 12 years old.
I bought a penny stock called AIR FLORIDA. It went bankrupt.

50_luma · Jun 7, 2003

My first trade was to short a company called Zi (symbol. ZICA) at 7 dol., I thought it was too much for a 40 cent stock go that high that fast. I got out at 8, the stock went almost non-stop to 40. Now trades around 2-3 dol.

Gordon Gekko · Jun 7, 2003

EGGS, i think..... egghead.com

went up like 90something % in a couple days. i then began thinking, "there's probably smart people out there that can detect when these moves might happen.. i have to find out how they're doing it..."

Mr Subliminal · Jun 7, 2003

First stock vs first time with a woman

Both more than 30 years ago.
Money changed hands in both instances.
Don't remember the name of either.

Gordon Gekko · Jun 7, 2003

Quote from Mr Subliminal:

First stock vs first time with a woman

Both more than 30 years ago.
Money changed hands in both instances.
Don't remember the name of either.

:eek:

Breakout · Jun 7, 2003

Yea, my first stock trade was about 20 years ago, also. I don't
remember the name, but it was trading for something like 50
cents a share and I bot 500 I think...hehe. It went to 55 cents
and I sold. Thought I was a bad ass...

Hungry4Knowledg · Jun 7, 2003

AOL in the 90s and somehow I ended up losing a little bit of money on it ... go figure

Hungry4Knowledg · Jun 7, 2003

Quote from Gordon Gekko:
...i then began thinking, "there's probably smart people out there that can detect when these moves might happen.. i have to find out how they're doing it..."

Let me know when you figure it out 'cause I'm still looking too.

-ooO-(GoldTrade · Jun 7, 2003

gotta_trade >Your first stock and what happened?? <

We saw 11 Harrow House. I think we bought DeBeers Consolidated Mines Ltd for $9.00 reinvested earned 25% dividends each year until the company went private and payed us $11.00 a share.

PetaDollar · Jun 7, 2003

Santa Fe Int'l (now merged with another...) back in '97 when oil was going for $12 a barrel. Bought at $18, called the broker a few days later.. he sounded like he was mocking me... "down to $16, NO volume"

Shortly down the road it hit $20 and I started writing calls..

Sold the last bit at $36...

Took me a few years to lose that money...

Been hooked ever since...