My mother recently passed and my dad is hanging on in memory care. I'm now running the family trust and so know all of my parent's holdings. Anyways I was going through copious amounts of files and yesterday finally took a closer look at a letter my dad wrote to us on 1/15/2007 before a trip up the Amazon, in case something bad happened I could start getting at the money. He provided a printout of all his stock and fund holdings and accounts and two positions really stood out.
3100 shares of NFLX (~$70k)
1600 shares of NVDA. (~$56k)
We don't own either of those in the trust. Sold at some point perhaps years ago definitely before the extreme run-ups of the 2020's. Probably sold after making several hundred thousand or when they didn't move the right direction.
Today these holdings would be
21,700 shares of NFLX at $1140 = $24.738 million
96,000 shares of NVDA at $116.65 = $11.198 million
Basically $36 fucking million dollars that I would have had a 41.5% share of when my dad eventually goes. I've been on the verge of vomiting for the past two days. This is like having a winning lottery ticket thrown into a landfill incinerator.
Don't ever sell unless you bloody well have to. I know he didn't need to. Fuuuuuuuuuudge!
I just hope there is a multiverse where a different version of my dad didn't sell. JFC.