Your biggest stock gain?

[Wallstreet]

I think a lot of other people had gained on this one but I dumped almost my entire portfolio on two different brokerages into BP at around $59 and shorted it straight to high 20's. Gotta love that soil spill.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Std Life Dividend Fund a few years back. There were others that gained after lows or crashes but that Std Life one was the highest rated in that year. (I think it was a segregated fund).

 

[canaille]

Took a flyer on a company called Intuitive Surgical buying 10k shares at $64 and sold at $85, right before it skyrocketed to almost $400 per share. Not sure if I should be happy or sad on this one.

 

[hinz]

Just cut my position in half for GLD after buying a truck load in early 2005. Take some money off the table when many suckers are becoming gold bugs.

 

[danmand]

Preferred shares bought march last year doubled. Made one big one.

 

[poseidol]

Bought CEO late 2008 for $60; sold a few months ago for $150.

 

[woodee]

Bought 600 Canadian Tire (CTC.A) around $20. Sold 300 around $60 and balance around $70.

 

[elassowipo1]

Best

Long GOOG (IPO to Q4 06)
Long GSCI (Q2 03 to Q1 08)
Long AAPL (Q3 06 to present)
Short PALM (Q1 2010 to HP takeover)
Long JPY Short GBP pair trade (Q2 09 - present)

Worst

Short US treasuries (Q4 09 to present)
Long TGT
Short GE
Long SHLD

 

[JohnLarue]

A little Oil & Gas start up in the late 80s @ $ 0.16 / share
The company was bought out 15 years later @ $17 / share

Yes buy and hold works

 

[oil&gas]

Just cut my position in half for GLD after buying a truck load in early 2005. Take some money off the table when many suckers are becoming gold bugs.

Not sure if GLD is 100% backed by physical bullion. CEF.A,
GTU.UN and SBT.UN are better investment vehicles for
exposure to gold and silver price IMO.
I won't be surprised to see a major pullback in gold price
to as low as $1000 within the rest of 2010. A core holding of
gold bullion kept to within 15% of your total assets should
do fine on a 1--5 years time frame. I am expecting gold to
break $1400 in one year given its positive underlying
fundamentals--the ongoing debasement of the USD which
sees no end in sight.

If there is any major bubble in global finance to watch
out of it is the government and corporate bond in general
rather than precious metals that investors should underweigh
IMO.

 

[canucklehead]

put 10 grand into Apple stocks at 16 bucks...... still have them.

 

[burt-oh-my!]

I made about 60 times what I invested in a leveraged instrument in the 80s, and about 12 times what I invested in a similar thing purchased Feb 09.

NOT selling is by far the hardest part of investing IMO.

 

[Ginglay]

Netflix
Baidu
Intuitive surgical

Intuitive surgical seems to have slowed down, recently...

 

[Wallstreet]

You guys are suppose to write down how much % or II;R
thats the whole point of this thread.

 

[Consilio]

Do options count? If they do, I've made a 300% return in one day several times. I've also taken large losses on some options purchases.

 

[hinz]

Not sure if GLD is 100% backed by physical bullion. CEF.A,
GTU.UN and SBT.UN are better investment vehicles for
exposure to gold and silver price IMO.

LOL, that's the same "rationale" your adviser and portfolio managers say repeatedly, like talking heads at CNBC in order to convince no offense sheeple to put their money on Bullion Funds of the world. Better yet, some are even aggressive enough to persuade the sheeple to get greedy and buy on leverage/margin.

Makes one wonder what kind of conflict of interest and hidden agendas these glorified salespersons have. Perhaps fat trailer fees/kickbacks to your adviser/portfolio manager while charging the sheeple 3% upward MER to keep the metals guarded at BNS. Who knows?

IMHO, one gets a better preposition by buying precious metal ETFs at ishares Canada, Claymore, even Horizon Beta Pro for people holding mainly CAD denominated asset. Having said that, it doesn't make sense unless you have substantial and significant exposure to US equities.

I won't be surprised to see a major pullback in gold price
to as low as $1000 within the rest of 2010. A core holding of
gold bullion kept to within 15% of your total assets should
do fine on a 1--5 years time frame. I am expecting gold to
break $1400 in one year given its positive underlying
fundamentals--the ongoing debasement of the USD which
sees no end in sight.

Sure but it's always prudent to take some profit off the table by cashing in a portion of the gold position.

If there is any major bubble in global finance to watch
out of it is the government and corporate bond in general rather than precious metals that investors should underweight IMO.

Not so sure for corporate bond, at least not yet.

 

[needinit]

Living overseas at the time...bought into a property development company (developing near where I lived)...bought 10,000 shares at 37 cents, sold at 1.57 5 months later...they peaked at 1.65 like three years later...felt pretty good at the time and more so later!