Thoughts on the stock market and

[LogGrad98]

Thanks @idestroyedthetoilet. I always planned on using Buffett as my template. So today I opened a Robinhood account and purchased my first individual stocks ever.

$250 of Ulta Beauty
$250 of American Express
$250 of Occidental Petroleum
$250 of Berkshire Hathaway

I'd like to try to buy into companies I use and like. My wife and daughter shop at Ulta(very popular with the kids these days), we use Amex almost exclusively, Occidental Petroleum based on Buffett, and of course went with Warren's company Berkshire Hathaway.

I have about $4000 more to play with. I was thinking Bitcoin, maybe Costco since it's my religion and not sure what else yet.

Best thing I ever did was get fractional shares of Berkshire. Most steady growth in my portfolio. Not the highest growth but solidly upward.

 

[str8line]

Best thing I ever did was get fractional shares of Berkshire. Most steady growth in my portfolio. Not the highest growth but solidly upward.

Nice. My wife is laughing at me thinking I'll now be checking stocks every day. I might but I'm a buy and hold type of guy. Hopefully ULTA remains popular, I think it's the riskiest. Not worried at all about AMEX or Berkshire. I guess Kamala as President could negatively affect OXY but in general there seems to be a slowdown in the adoption of electric vehicles so we'll see. They also have a carbon-removal technology which maybe makes them less risky.