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Yup. Built PCs my whole life and it used to be GPU vendors rotated the top place. By 2017, that had completely stopped happening.

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Ok so I bought in Jan 2017 for $25. Not quite 2016 but I think it’s legit to chime in.. I had cash to invest and was building a gaming PC at the time. I’ve build gaming computers my whole life. It used to be that 3d gpu makers swapped being the “best” every couple years. Not anymore. nVidia seemed permanently on top. So it seemed pretty safe to throw some money at them, because GPU demand wasn’t going to go away, and their leading margin kept getting bigger. I guess the lesson is: if a company is a leader in a sector for so many years, especially to the point you don’t consider the competition, it’s likely a safe bet.

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Invested 16k. Went up. The experience of not selling up 500k last cycle still twists my stomach. I was nestled in my illusion of ‘I’ll sell at 3M’. Sold at 42k. Then put it into a ‘safe bet’ that then tanked to 6k.  Worked it back to 80k now but I need to focus on my patients. And now I work with money on my mind. I didn’t before. I would have been somewhat freer of that being 500k up. Who knows, had I sold at my experience of a top, where it would be with more funds available to the opportunities I scrape for now.  ! Had I known ! 

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No, it’s lots of shareholders. You know what happens to shares held by people who lose faith in the ceo, right? They exit. Lots of shares about to exit, right before shares get dilution from 303 million share options being executed at 23 dollar strike. Guess who has to sell at 23 dollar strike price? That’s right, Tesla shareholders! They don’t want that which is why they’re voting no. When the board gives it to him anyway, MASSIVE exits https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/teslas-top-retail-investor-votes-against-restoring-elon-musks-50-billion-pay-package/

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WSB has just become as regarded as general Reddit these days. Anything which is eLoN mAn bAd gets upvoted to the top, actual facts or nuances be damned. I miss the memes 

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Problems IMO off the top of my head are 1. Promising capabilities in a year that his own engineers didn’t think were possible and that he hasn’t delivered on a decade later — purpose to pump sales numbers on known false information 2. Promising Teslas would be an appreciating investment with robotaxi, then cutting prices so they depreciated at insane rates, again with no timeline for existing cars to become robotaxis — purpose to pump sales numbers on known false information He’s made it this far without legal problems since people have been giving him the benefit of the doubt he could eventually deliver…but this no longer seems to be the case

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Just bought yesterday because I agree. No matter how people feel about starbucks in the near term, it's one of those businesses that simply isn't going anywhere. Edit: I also get a fairly juicy dividend on top of gains which never hurts

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This is every gamblers problem. You can't walk away when you're up because you get greedy and you feel like you have a cushion to be a little riskier. But when you start losing you get even riskier because you have to win back "your" money. People that can gamble and come out ahead take wins that aren't necessarily home runs. Sometimes they miss out on the home run but more times than not they save themselves from having to wipe their ass with old socks for the foreseeable future and being in wallstreetbets top 5 regards for the month. Hope you got a nice collection of old socks my friend.

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Nothing on the top but a bucket & a mop

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