Recent content by Blue531

You are all free to NOT take advantage of the potential of the market. I won't lose sleep over it. I shared my thoughts on why I do it and I'm sure millions of other people are investing in individual stocks for the same reason. Potential. Why so many of you get upset is ridiculous...

An individual stock has given me an unrealized gain of over 600% in a year and a half's time. Not typical, yet not unheard of. Out of curiosity, I wanted to know how long it would have taken to grow to the same amount if I had invested that initial amount into a reasonable index fund. @8.5%...

Was listening to Peter Lynch audiobook "One Up on Wall Street" and I really liked this statement: "A share of stock is not a lottery ticket. It's part ownership of a business."

My suggestions are TSLA, TQQQ and the new ETF soon to come out ARKB. The potential of Tesla is enormous. They are scaling quickly, innovative and disrupting the car industry. TQQQ seeks to triple the daily return of the Nasdaq 100 so is very aggressive. The past five year return is...

Currently own: TSLA (long-term), FUV (Arcimoto), BTBT (Bit Digital), SLI (Standard Lithium) and HMLP (Hoegh Lng).

When I first got to my FI number, I wasn't mentally ready for the transition, so I decided a slow transition would help. It's very overwhelming to go from getting a paycheck from a job to getting your paycheck from yourself via your savings and investments. I dropped from 40 hours to 32...

I use sodium bicarbonate (Baking Soda) for heartburn and acid indigestion. Even says that's one of its uses on the side of the box, never noticed that before. Half a teaspoon in a glass of water does the trick in 30 seconds. Some problems we have as we get older are due to decreased stomach...

A few years ago, I told a coworker that I would be retiring early and she said, "well, won't you get bored?" I said, "I don't come to work to keep from getting bored." And I thought to myself, "who does that??", although I do know some people actually do, I can't see myself doing it. I told...

I think a lot of things, tasks, etc. get overlooked, neglected, put off while we are busy working a job and balancing family. So I think it's normal to have clutter tasks become more apparent after slowing down. There's always something that COULD be done... perhaps in little time, all that...

Unless I found an even better investment or needed the money, I would not consider selling an investment that was doing well and that I believed in over the long term. It appears that Roku has already gone up by over 20x since IPO in 2017. Could turn out to be a 100 bagger eventually. I'm a...

Like I originally stated, I was curious. Not enough talk about stocks in here. Thanks to all of you for your responses!

Was just curious if anyone bought into the market yesterday or is planning to as the Dow has fallen? What have you got on your radar?

Just recently watched Downton Abbey for the second time. What a well done series. am in the middle of Virgin River now. I am really enjoying it. Great scenery in both series and both on Netflix.

One of the best feelings in the world is waking up and realizing you don't have to go to work. It never gets old. It's in my top ten for sure.

I haven't started the blow that dough phase yet. I think I can comfortably do that when I reach millionaire status. I hope to make a large purchase then. In the meantime, I'm working on my health so that I can actually enjoy it when I get to it. I'm 57, just retired 7 months ago.