{"id":16,"date":"2022-01-14T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/?p=16"},"modified":"2022-01-14T06:50:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T06:50:53","slug":"mishap2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/2022\/01\/14\/mishap2\/","title":{"rendered":"That time I bought a G4 Cube instead of stock in Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My group’s project is Algorithmic Stock Market Trading Strategies<\/a>. We haven’t really gotten started yet, but talking with our sponsor a bit about trading made me think about my own investment experiences and how my life might be different now if I had been \u2026 better at it.

I was always rather careful with my money. I would save up birthday money in a dresser drawer until I found something that I really wanted that my parents would not buy for me. Like a Nintendo.

My first actual investment was in a small company in Iowa that made “fuel management systems.” I got the “stock tip” from my dad, who heard about it from some guy at work. I bought 300 shares at $5 each. This was when I was in high school, around 1999 or 2000. Their website<\/a> has not been updated since 2012.

When I went to college, I was lucky enough to get some extra scholarship money. I decided to buy a computer. The Power Mac G4 Cube<\/a> had just come out that summer, so that’s what I got. It was a cool looking thing. But it was pretty expensive. And I got the “cheap” CRT display, which was not only heavy, but also resulted in me having to get stitches in my ear over winter break. That’s a story for another time though.

Anyway, sometimes I think back to how I might have been smarter with money. If I had purchased the G4 Cube equivalent of shares in Apple back then, I’d have ~$500k now. That would be nice. I do still have the Cube though, so there’s always eBay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My group’s project is Algorithmic Stock Market Trading Strategies. We haven’t really gotten started yet, but talking with our sponsor a bit about trading made me think about my own investment experiences and how my life might be different now if I had been \u2026 better at it. I was always rather careful with my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12016,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}