Re: Worst Investment You've Ever Made?
I went thru 3 years of dental school. My college degree is in chemistry with 30 semester hrs of accounting . I wanted to become a pharmacist after I decided that dentistry wasn't for me but the schools wouldn 't accept any transfered credits towards a pharmacy degree even though I have taken about 90% of the curriculum for a pharmacist.
Although I have made a big sum in the stock market I could have only have imagined the amount of money I would have now with that wasted capital.
Investment wise my worst decisions were (1) have partners in my stock dealings whose influence in delaying capital gains cost me about 100K. (In my retirement account I sold the stock for a 60 K gain). (2) not selling when the earnings numbers didn't come through yet I held because of the company's expansion. (company was Bennett Enviromental ticker BEL) I had let go of a little more than 200K of gains in a stock that way.
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