I checked my account balance first.
Five million dollars.
Realistically, though…
I only had 4.9 million available to invest.
I still had to eat and live, after all.
So how should I use it?
Wait.
Back in the Room of Choices, I had made countless investments.
Whether I chose Yes or No, the outcome of those investments had always been the same.
Which meant the results never changed.
Good.
Then I’d start with the biggest jackpot.
Space A.
A company that would be going public soon.
Its stock would climb from ten dollars…
To three hundred.
At William Investment, this single stock had been the reason I was promoted to partner.
Now all I had to do was wait.
A month passed.
The day Space A finally went public.
The numbers I had seen in the Room of Choices were now moving before my eyes.
I began accumulating shares at nine.
The price continued to fluctuate around the nine-dollar range.
Up a little.
Down a little.
While everyone else hesitated, I gradually raised my bids and kept buying.
Sellers were always willing to part with their shares…
For just a little more money.
Accumulation complete.
Shares Purchased: 520,000
Average Purchase Price: $9.423
Total Investment: $4,900,000
In the Room of Choices, my average purchase price had been ten dollars.
This time, I’d bought in nearly fifty cents cheaper.
A good start.
Now all I had to do was wait for harvest season.
The stock continued to rise and fall.
Some days it dropped more than five percent.
Other days it gained more than five percent.
People laughed and cried over every movement.
I always smiled.
I smiled when it went up.
I smiled when it went down.
Because I knew exactly where it would end up.
Wait.
Why am I only looking at the finish line?
Back in the Room of Choices, this stock hadn’t gone straight up.
It had shaken investors countless times along the way.
Down five percent.
Up seven percent.
Down another four percent.
Then it climbed even higher.
If that’s the case…
Why settle for only the final profit?
Couldn’t I profit from all those swings along the way as well?
What I needed to remember wasn’t the destination.
It was the turbulence along the way.
Good.
Next time…
I’ll do exactly that.
Definitely.