A brief history<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first laptop that I bought with my own money was a Dell Inspiron way back in 2003. At that time, I was a grad student studying Computer Science. In 2009, the screen went blank, but I was still able to use the machine by hooking it up to an external monitor. The interesting thing is, I still have the Dell with me after nearly 19 years! Of course, it doesn\u2019t work but I\u2019ve kept it as a memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I bought the laptop, I chose the option to get an NVIDIA<\/a> graphics card. At that time, NVIDIA<\/a> was, and it still continues to be the best in class GPU company with top of the line processors. All the machines that I\u2019ve owned since then have had an NVIDIA<\/a> chip inside them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NVIDIA trade<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The year was 2010. The core holdings of my long-term portfolio were index mutual funds, but I was also trading a lot of individual stocks. Most of them were short term trades that lasted only a few mths. NVDA<\/a> was one such trade that I regret selling. Why? Have a look at my 2010 tax return, schedule D:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I owned 1182<\/strong> shares of NVDA<\/a> in May 2010 and I sold them in Dec 2010 for a profit of $2,463.96 <\/strong>which was an 18%<\/strong> return in 7 mths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I didn\u2019t sell, I would have had 4,728 <\/strong>shares (4:1 split on July 20, 2021) valued at $1,638,110 <\/strong>when the shares hit a 52 week high. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On April 10, 2022, the shares would be valued at 1 mill 93K<\/strong> which is still a crazy growth considering that my initial investment was just 13K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why am I talking about this?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The history section in the beginning of this article is not to bore you with mundane life events. I want to stress the fact that – “if you love using a company\u2019s products and if tons of other individuals\/organizations feel the same then that\u2019s a winning stock”<\/em>. BUY IT!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once you\u2019ve bought the winning stock, you may not want to sell it unless there is a genuine reason to do so. Ex: the company and its products have since deteriorated, there is a competitor that is doing much better and taking away market share, the stock price has fallen below your loss threshold, you need the money to fund an important life event etc. etc. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The reason why I sold NVDA<\/a> in 2010 is because I wasn\u2019t disciplined enough. I had a fear that I would lose the gains and get into a loss. With individual stocks, I would just keep hopping and I held onto each stock for less than a year. Over the years I\u2019ve gotten much better with handling individual stocks but the thought of holding onto NVDA<\/a> – \u2018could have should have\u2019 still remains! \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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