Stuff that may not necessarily blow up this year or the next but you threw some money at just in case it becomes something someday. Why did you pick it?
Obligatory disclaimer – All my serious money is in diversified indexes and my strategy will stay that way.
There's lots of stories about "I had $1k in bitcoin/Nvidia and it'd be worth millions if I had held." What longshot investments do you have right now and why did you pick them?
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I invested a good chunk with Intel when it reached 20$.
I’m up by around400% but I still think it can go up with their 18A manufacturing process. There is also Taiwan’s regional risk for tsmc
KEEL. I have 500 shares. I am fully in on AI datacenters.
Spirit Airlines…
Toys R Us…
Sears…
Bed Bath & Beyond…
Lehman Brothers…
Im not very good at this… in fact maybe short whatever i buy…
If you are ever lucky enough to get on a winner, it is usually best to let it go on winning. I make a habit of holding things I’ve bought and never selling. I have shares of AAPL bought at $1.25 a share in 2005; shares of LRCX bought in 2012 for $4 a share; shares of MU bought in 2015 at $14.50 a share. The reason I picked each of these was that they were profitable, growing businesses that I believed at the time would continue growing into the future. I’ve recently added APH, JBL, LLY, CAH and STT for the same reason.
Take a look at RMIX
EVTL
CRISPR
If they have a breakthrough in their Immuno-Oncology pipeline, it’ll go parabolic.
Otherwise it collapses as the debt and lack of profit catch up to the inability to commercialize
NGEN
Dad had MS and I watched that disease slowly take his life away. I will invest in any company that has a promising drug for debilitating disease.
PS they just diluted shares for their stage three so it’s a great time to buy if you’re into risk like this.
Arm… Bought at 168. Held through the pain of 120… Feeling pretty good right now. I just sold half and letting the rest ride for free into the next decade.
Lotus petal
I’ve bought Bitcoin at $600 and bought Bitcoin at $100k. I’m not a millionaire.
I did say to a friend in the mid-2000s, “Netflix? Who wants to watch shows on laptop screen?”, and that guy is doing quite well
Bitcoin
I don’t currently hold it for reasons that will be obvious by the end of this post but 30 years ago I put $1k into a company called mcom that was putting wifi on light poles, telephone poles, etc. Basically community wifi. Went to $10k. Then went to $0. Had some big name backers, including Paul Allen
I had MU from 80 to 92 down to 68 with the “memory” chip longterm play in mind. After a few years of holding, I gave up when it finally went to 83-84 above my entry.
If only I was patient.
I just went full pull on VTI and said slow and steady is fine with me. But I’m having severe FOMO and missed opportunity right now.
I think the rotation into commodities is next. Shit is about to get even more expensive for the common man. Steel, wood, oil, etc. but I don’t know anything.
KDEF I don’t think it will *10 but its certainly undervalued. our world is headed for more war not less war. there’s been a selloff recently for defence companies you can argue that a lot of the defense space is currently undervalued.
I feel like a nut, but every month I invest a little bit in water. The supply and demand for clean water is about to go crazy (maybe it is already).
While all of you are fighting wars in the desert, I’ll be holding a bunch of (digital) paper that says that water belongs to me!
Bought Tesla at IPO because it was the first car company to go public in like 100 years. Currently up like 30,000% and still holding. It’s a wild ride though and I’m always telling myself I want off.
Unironically GME. Roast away.
mine are mostly boring “this could either 10x or quietly die” positions in small infrastructure and energy stuff
the pattern i look for now is less “next Nvidia” and more “will this still exist in 10 years if the hype cycle disappears tomorrow?” learned the hard way that cool narratives survive way less often than boring companies with actual cash flow lol
Rklb and Nbis. Wall Street bets plays these guys don’t miss
Dvlt. Like some bad food, there is just a feeling in my gut with this one thats all. Maybe tokenization will be a real deal powerhouse financial instrument someday
$40k CAD in TSLA in 2019. Was selling a bit to put a downpayment for the house and pay down the mortgage, etc but still hold around $400k CAD in TSLA.
I got in rklb and asts and mu early. I think Drts, sls, lunr, ampx, ebs, and Nok are the next to buy now and hold forever. That said, buying asts at $5 and watching it get diluted to $2.50 and stay there for months was difficult.
Robotics.
Hindsight capital up 10 points again!
Old city saying. Easy to spot winners after the event….
I have rocketlab shares that I bought at 4.73.
Honestly, I took advice from wall street bets. Haha
I had $400 available to use, and after looking at what they had planned, I thought it might make a couple dollars.
In hindsight, I should have invested significantly more.
I had about 400,000 dogecoin back in my 20s when I was a moron and treated the market like a casino. At the time it was worth about $0.005. I sold it all for a few hundred dollars profit. Today it would be six figures of profit. I don’t do high stakes gambling anymore. My highest risk investment is AMD and I don’t plan on increasing my risk any more than that. I’ve held AMD since it was around $90. Now I have a rule that I’m not selling a single stock until I have enough to retire, or I hit retirement age. Whichever comes first. So I’ll never be in a position where I lose out on crazy gains because I sold early.
$CRSR, promising AI infrastructure pivot for a gaming tech company
As for what people are holding now, I can probably help you with that [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/s/zOBqdDUNj4)
METC – Future mining opportunities
OKLO – Converting coal powerplants to nuclear
Bought about 10k usd worth of Micron last year, maybe February? I think it was 90nor high 80ies for a share. Some dude on reddit said it had potential and Q4 should be real good.
Didnt last until Q4. Sold at around summer for about 150 per share. Oof.
Tsla, invested $3000 about a decade ago. Not quite enough to pay off the mortgage but getting close.
Electric cars are cool
Intel, I have a lot of it in my portfolio because I work there… will probably sell some covered calls… and I have already sold a couple hundred in the way up
Also I have also learned that I cannot hold forever, I had a lot of unrealized gains back in the crypto bubble during COVID… holding to long and selling when it is back down is worst than selling and taking profit on the way up … at least recover your cost
RDW.. this one I am holding…
409 shares of BB, paid about 15 dollar per back when you know when… So yeah got greedy and only holding as a reminder to be sensible in future 😬
I’ve got a good amount into ONCY. They are about a year out from finishing their Phase 3 trials and have a FDA fast track designation for colorectal cancer. The results from their treatment so far have been very good and may be useful to treat several other cancers. The CEO has history with another pharma company he guided to acquisition and that seems a likely path this will take.
AUR. I think self driving is going to be most profitable in the trucking space.
Happy to expand upon any of these but here are my moonshots to 5x:
BRUN, SLS, AMRQF, TMC, ABXXF, KRKNF (need to digest earnings report from today)