1upper: I went all in on Apple stock shortly after the iPhone debuted in 2007, and I mean all in ... I was that sure. At one point I controlled 1700 pre-split shares. For a while it looked like I'd struck gold.

Well, guess who lost everything on a margin call in 2009. Wall Street found a way to !@$#^ me. Just looked, current price four and a half million. :-/