Buy more Goog

Market orders a mistake?

In October I wrote about my decision to buy some stocks on a market order, to "seize the day". Possibly I was driven by FOMO. Those haven't fared too well, at at least in the short term, 3 months later.

Back to limit orders

I've been extremely impressed by Google in the past couple of months. I started using Nano Banana and more recently Nano Banana Pro for image generation. It's unparalleled.

For researching on different topics and rapidly getting up to speed, I find NotebookLM just amazing.

Gemini is a very robust model. A lot can be done on the free tier, but I opted for the $20/month plan. It was extremely easy to create GEMs which are like custom GPTs, which answer based on your uploaded documents.

I'm of course a Google customer. I pay for YouTube TV and YouTube Sunday NFL Pass perhaps about $130/month, so that Eileen can enjoy watching football, one of her few recreations in retirement. I also pay about $23/month for a YouTube Premium family account to hide adverts.

Alphabet or GOOG is currently my fifth-largest individual holding and has earned over 433% since I bought it.

I had a little extra cash in a retirement account, about $33K, I placed another limit order to buy some more Google. Because the stock market can fluctuate, I've only decided to buy it only if it drops about 9% from where it's currently trading at. Otherwise, I might be placing another FOMO trade.

Time will tell how this trade is going to work out.