What is your BIGGEST EVER win?

• 2 November 2007

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Nizar,

it was absolute madness back then, I was building a house while it was happening and really couldn't trade all day.

Trying to get the builder to finish before GST, hopeless supervisor, drove me nuts.

I couldn't afford the dollars either as I wasn't sure exactly how much the house would cost, so I was only playing with a limited bank.

Another one was Axon Industry (AXN ?) got some in the float at 20c, listed at $1.60 sold mine at $2.00.

Finally finished house on the 14/4/2000, "right, lets get into this market !!"

The crash started the next weekend hahahahaha

Timing was a disaster but I managed to escape with some skin still attached.

 

• 19 June 2008

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biggest win on the stock market?

i saw a thread about biggest loss? whats your biggest win?

anyone get shares in apple in the early days? thats what u call growth!

 

• 19 June 2008

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Re: biggest win on the stock market?

billybaxter said:

i saw a thread about biggest loss? whats your biggest win?

anyone get shares in apple in the early days? thats what u call growth!

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Unfortunitly i was only 8 years old. Would of been good to of invested in Microsoft, Oracle or Dell back 20 years ago though $10,000 twenty years ago would of gotten you around $800,000,000 today (taking the splits into account) even if you brought though you would of been out ages ago. Picking a company that gives you a 300% return is one thing, deciding to stay in it thinking it will give a 800,000% return in two decades is another.

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• 19 June 2008

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Bought $10,000 worth of Arrow Energy at 26.5c in 2004 and still holding. Whether the economy's booming or crashing the world needs energy, and I think CSG has a long way to go yet.

Can anybody recommend any solar power companies worth investigating? I'm NOT looking for investment advice, just companies I can do my own research on (as I did with CSG.)

 

• 19 June 2008

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Two that have been good for me and still holding: NXS @ 25c in 2004 , AVO @ 84c in 2006. Particularly hoping that NXS will 'be the one' long term. Know someone who got FMG @ $1. $10,000 of those babies at that price would now make one a millionaire........we can all dream.

 

• 19 June 2008

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I love this forum! Bought 6000 LNC at 80.5c on 29/2/08. They were going along quite nicely so I bought another 8574 @ $2.41 on 12/5/08. A week or so later @ $2.75 I bought another 9000 shares. Todays closing price and sitting on paper profit of $52k. Have to thank Grace's posts for convincing me a good one to have a dip at.

Now just waiting (waiting, waiting) for GCR to kick on as well as DMM and AZM several others. Can't give up work quite yet though!

 

• 14 July 2008

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Haha love these threads. So motivational

My biggest win so far is 28pts on the ftse100 at 1 pound per point. was around 57 ausdollars in 20min :

Biggest loss was 13pts, and what a stupid time that was...no stop losses+I didnt realize one of my indicators was showing movement in opposite direction

have plans to increase the quantity later this year...