Comment by idiotsecant
14 hours ago
If it appreciates just due to inflation you didn't actually make any money. Unless your investment beats inflation, you lose value.
14 hours ago
If it appreciates just due to inflation you didn't actually make any money. Unless your investment beats inflation, you lose value.
I don't dispute that all. I'm just ok with that being the outcome; if it keeps up with inflation then it's still better than storing it in a bank, and the thing that would upset me more than "not gaining" would be "actively losing".
Now obviously, if it drops below from what I paid for it and then it takes inflation to catch up, then yeah, that's definitely "lost money", but that's just the risk of the stock market, especially with individual stocks. I also think that if it crashes, Nvidia might still have another surge eventually, even if it doesn't get back to its full glory.
I definitely would not buy new Nvidia stock at its current price though.