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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2093288, member: 73489&quot;]<b>You appear to not understand investing or stocks.&nbsp; </b>The use of AAPL wasn&#039;t to say she could have invested in it back then, I used it to show what the costs were for a round-lot, 100-share stock with a market value in the low-5 figures ($12,000) back in 1974.&nbsp; I could have said XOM or GE or MSFT or Amazon.com -- whether the stock existed or not is immaterial, it&#039;s the cost of the trade that I illustrated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ditto for saying it was an IRA (which started in the late-1970&#039;s) but there were Keough and Money Purchase TDAs in the 1960&#039;s and 1970&#039;s.&nbsp; <b><span style="color: #b30000">Could be an IRA, a Keough plan, or a regular brokerage account. </span></b> It doesn&#039;t matter but it apparently went over your head.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You appear to not understand investments and the financial markets. The fact that you cite my example as a &#039;fabrication&#039; shows you may also lack basic reading comprehension skills as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>To each his own.......<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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