While enjoying my morning coffee I ran into the following.

If you’d invested $1,000 in Nvidia on 15 April 2005, you’d now have $566,624.

Sure.

If I had been a little boy on 15 April 2005, I’d be a man in my twenties now.

If you’d invested $1,000 in different stock than Nvidia, you might be left with nothing now.

Had you even heard of Nvidia back then?

People who do things like build their own computers did know about it. Come to think of it, yes, I built my first computer around that time, in a super sleek, fully lockable blue case that was great to work in.

The right questions to ask are “what do you base your investment decisions on?” and “how much risk are you willing to take?”

(Along with “what tools do you use to invest?”)

(I’m talking investments now, not trading, obviously, although if you aren’t into it for dividends and to help enable the company in question to function, but plan to sell your shares later, you can see it as long-term trading.)

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