(12-28-2021, 10:56 AM)fenders53 Wrote: Try not to get your feelings hurt on discussion about stocks like T. A lot of us here think it's a yield trap and we like honest exchange of opinions here. If it turns out we are wrong, that is fine. I know I want everyone here to be successful, no matter what strategies they use.
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Have no feelings hurt, I have Zero skin in the game as they are not my 12000 shares. Additionally after so many years of her investing and reinvesting divis one could logically assume her cost basis is zero or close to it. I merely shared a story in rebuttable for his abrasiveness of another.
I was more shocked how abrasive this as10xx individual was to disparage another investor(s) on that board regarding their strategy, while touting their own for appreciation strategy "as the one and only" not understanding neither strategy protects from an unknown and no one can predict the future and everything is situational.
And then once you move beyond the comment , The interaction raised interesting questions (for me) regarding preservation, Risk, and age