Three unfortunately-timed trades I made 🤦‍♂️

One is now working out. The other two are currently in the red. 📉

I read about stocks and the stock market pretty obsessively. I’ve been reporting on and writing about stocks for about 17 years. From 2006 to 2009, I spent most of my free time earning a CFA charter to better understand how the financial markets work.

But I don’t trade actively much at all.¹

Almost all of my exposure to the stock market right now has come over the years through regular contributions to equity index funds in a 401k plan or some occasional modest purchases of similar funds through an online brokerage account. I bought a handful of shares of Walmart in 2015, which I haven’t sold. I also bought one B share of Berkshire Hathaway recently, mostly because I might want to get a pass for the company’s annual meeting.

There were three other unusual trades I’m gonna talk about today.