Ole ben ji's dad has always fancied himself as an ivestment guy/day trader. When I was growing up he would always ask me and my siblings if we wanted to invest some money in the stocks he was buying but they were all stupid penny stock stuff and I stopped after losing a couple hundred dollars. The only stock I can actually remember him buying was for a new TV network call "Queer TV" in the early 2000's, never knew if it was an actually company but it does strike me as strange that a right wing rush limbaugh devotee would invest in "Queer TV"
Anyways he works in IT and usually works from home spending alot of his time daytrading.
So yesterday I stop by my parents house on the way to work to grab some stuff and start talking to him. He tells me to keep an eye on a certain stock, forgot the name, and that it was up 15cents on pretrading. I ask him how much he has invested in it and he tells me "Alot of my retirement money", all in this one stock I ask, "Yep".
I called him an idiot and told him that a 55yr old man shouldnt be putting that much emphasis on one stock. He looked at me with puppy dog eyes and said "But its up 15cents on pretrading"