The Beginning
If only we could go back in time... I remember taking a stock market class in college and recognize my apathetic view at that time of tracking stocks. We picked symbols from a newspaper and tracked the returns. I didn't care about the class, I had no passion for it, I just wanted to enjoy my time in college and at that time stock returns did not motivate me. Probably should have paid more attention in that class! Outside of a 401(k) account that I had through my employer (an account that I eventually liquidated, more on that later) I bought my first individual stock on January 27, 1999. The stock was PCMS and I bought 600 shares for $8.00. I cannot remember what they did or why I chose that stock but I sold all 600 shares the very next day for a $9.00 commission fee for a total gain of $573.82. This was kinda FUN! This was the beginning of the journey to ten thousand trades. I'm going to try and post a few times a week and I'll keep the posts short, quick and easy t