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The thoughts of missed opportunities

How often do you find yourself thinking about missed opportunities that, on closer inspection, are really ridiculous?


Over the years, these have become fewer and fewer for me, but every now and then I actually think about times when I think to myself "well, I should have ..." and these are sometimes so ridiculous that I have to laugh at myself. A few examples:


I was lying on the couch the other night thinking about how I bought my first graphics card and thought $NVDA (-2.49%) graphics card and thought I should have invested the money in shares. That was back in 2005 or so. In hindsight, it's really laughable, in no scenario would I ever have bought this share or known what it would be 😄.


Or on the subject of $BTC (-1.5%) I heard about it at some point during my studies, must have been around 2014/15. Again, "I should have"..., at the time I had zero idea and with a small interest in it, in no realistic scenario would I ever have bought it...


Anyway, it's always amusing to see what thoughts come up sometimes.


On that note, have a nice holiday and don't miss out on the chance of a cold drink ☝️.

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I know it all too well 😀 Of course you think about it. Just thinking about how much money I spend every year at various shooting festivals or every year in Willingen or or or or....
But now comes the big BUT for that I had extremely fun times. I met my wife at a shooting festival and now I know almost every bar owner in Willingen personally - these are moments that make investing secondary. In the meantime, it's not so much the festivals but family vacations.
Of course I would have a significantly higher net worth if I had significantly reduced my consumption over the last 20 years. I calculate the costs for this at around 120-150k (no, not just for alcohol, there are unnecessary cars etc.) this money alone would probably be over 1 million today (if I had invested it in my shares back then) but even so, I am satisfied with what I have achieved so far. Of course, I'm lucky to have earned quite well from the start, to have completed my further training relatively early and to have started my own business, and I'm already relatively well-off from my parents' house - I got a small 6-figure salary from my grandparents alone when I was 18, saying that this was my future, invest it wisely and you'll be fine. Of course, I only did that in part. First you had to buy a brand new Golf 5 GTI 😀
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@Hotte1909 these thoughts regarding consumer spending are always amusing, I totally agree with you 😁
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@Hotte1909 Thank you for your life story, it was very refreshing.
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As long as you haven't paid for two pizzas with 10000 bitcoins, everything is still within reason. 😅
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@Tobi60 hahahaha how true 😂
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I wouldn't say ridiculous, but one thing that ties your stories together is that you've heard about it but haven't seen the jump to the stock or investment opportunity. Now in hindsight, you could also see it as you might experience a few deja vu's and then not stay with zero idea, but "ah, I could do some research". That would be my thought :)
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If I had bought bitcoins for €500 back then and they were worth €10,000, I would have sold them safely because the risk would have been too high that everything would be gone again a day later 😅
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When we got married in 2012, a friend once suggested Bitcoin to my husband, which I think cost 2 euros at the time. Unfortunately, my husband didn't buy any Bitcoin back then. I say again and again, if only I had invested 10 euros back then 😁
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@Semos25 yes, i know haha
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@Semos25 There is a good chance that he would have sold again at €200 or more. And even then you would have been annoyed to have only bought for €10 and not €20 🤷‍♂️
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@Gernhard_Reinholzen may well be possible. Then I think I would have been twice as annoyed 😅
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Don’t worry, many more will follow.🙏
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I once bought Allianz at 128 euros and had 175 shares. I would still like to have 🤷‍♂️
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Not at all. Investments only via savings plans, no sales.
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I have such thoughts extremely rarely, with the "If I had once...!" approach.

There is exactly one "If only I had!", which in retrospect would not have been ridiculous at all - on the contrary. :D
I had started to deal with the stock market and financial content during Corona (because short-time work and far too much time :D), I also changed my bank and built the first version of a multi-account system, but I hadn't had the "balls" to start investing. That only came at the beginning of 2023, when the coronavirus crisis was already as good as over. 🙆🏻‍♀️
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I owned cryptocurrencies in 2015 - just regret selling them
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