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To: Woody_Nickels who wrote (67980)	3/22/2015 12:45:24 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 95617

Apple was actually the first individual stock I ever bought. I bought 100 shares for about $23 in about 1993, and sold them 7 weeks later for $35, and thought to myself "this is the most imazing thing in the world. I haven't lifted a finger, and I made $1,200!!!" I did something similar with a penny stock - I think it was Pacific Snax, a maker of potato chips - and sold them in a month for a small profit. I thought this was also incredible. Then I bought shares in a company called MediaVision for about $4. Six months later they went bankrupt or were delisted in some fraudulent accounting scheme thing, and I learnt that it doesn't always turn out nice and peachy :-)