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dude - wrong chart - timeframe is off. This was around JAN/FEB/MAR 2001 at $3.00-$5.00 IIRC. find charts around then if you can.

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BTW, this is about YOUR investments, not mine. I already admitted failure.

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Bought a house in SD. Sold it 2 years later for a 71% profit.

does that count?
FishNChips

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Unless you live in the midwest, you have probably never heard of The Fifth Third Bank. I received some when my grandmother died, in lieu of cash. That was in 1985.

FITB
It's done pretty well. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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The $10K I spent on my wife's engagement ring.

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same for me...but she also makes more than me, so my answer fits the OP's intent [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I'm not a big-time investor, but I sunk ~$5K into a whopping 50 shares of AAPL late 1999. 6 years and two splits later, it appears to have done well. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Too bad the same can't be said for most of the other stocks in my meager portfolio.

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The $40 I spent on a really good fake ID my freshman year at school. I can't even begin to estimate how much use I got out of that, but suffice it to say that that $40 went much, much further than any expenditure before or since in terms of maximizing utility.

Other than that, some Monsanto stock I got from my parents when I graduated high school. Sold it off earlier this year for a nice gain.

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Bought a condo in 1999, just off the beach in CT, for 112k.
Sold it in 2004 for 210k.

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i bought 1000 shares of AAPL at 23$. just for note it's at 72 right now, after a split.

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Best investment ever - Panera Bread at $7. Sold out at $50. Regretted it ever since.

Worst investment never made - Had $1000 in 1980 and wanted to buy something. Since I wasn't 18 yet, told my dad to ask his broker about it. Said it was too risky, I should invest in this Canadian gold mining stock, which today is worth all of $4. The "too risky" stock - Genentech. That's when I learned that brokers know crap.

Worst sell - 1992, bought a quality high tech stock at 13 5/8. Come 1995 and I want to buy a new Celica, so I can sell one of two stocks. I pick this one, which is at 32. Unfortunately its name was Sun Microsystems and I wound up driving the world's only $500,000 Celica.