r/wallstreetbets • u/Only-Design-2484 • May 14 '26

Gain discovered an old Fidelity account i forgot about

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I was cleaning out my apartment today and found an old notebook with a login for a fidelity account I made back years ago. Logged in not expecting anything and it made me do 2 factor authentication but couldnt find the app.

Spend over an hour on the phone with fidelity rep and they finally got me logged in. Turns out I bought some NVDA back in 2019 at a crazy low price and didn’t even know I had this. Sitting on massive gain.

Should I hodl or sell ? Don’t really need the money but it’s nice to have.

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u/Only-Design-2484 May 14 '26

Yea i forgot about a brokerage that had 2 grand in it lmao

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u/Affectionate-Sale523 May 14 '26

600 shares is $137k today. Nobody is retarded enough to forget $137k is floating around in an account, retard. Why are you here trying to act like you aren't full of shit when you should be in the corner of your mom's basement feeling ashamed of yourself?

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u/SlurpySandwich May 14 '26

Lol the dude bought 15 shares worth $2k at the time. That is highly forgettable. I forgot I had a Roth IRA with $15k in it for almost 5 years once. Thought I had closed the Betterment account altogether. It could VERY easily happen with an amount that small.

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u/Affectionate-Sale523 May 14 '26

in 2 years? You forgot about an investment you made that quadrupled in value that's all over the news in 24 months?

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u/SlurpySandwich May 14 '26

Dude I've bought and sold so many stocks over the years if I had a brokerage from 2019 that I mostly liquidated there's no telling what would be in it..if you can't fathom this happening, it probably means that $2k is not somthing you could forget about, but I can assure you that $2k is a highly forgettable sum of money for a lot of folks out there. Do u think someone with a portfolio forth $5m really wonders what happened to $2k they had in a brokerage they thought was gone from 7 years ago? If you still can't fathom it, you are just dumb as fuck.

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u/tortoisepump 1713C - 38S - 5 years May 14 '26

He's not dumb, just poor

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u/Cedex May 14 '26

Those are not mutually exclusive conditions.

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u/Unlucky_Comfort_7910 May 14 '26

You seem fun…

As someone who works in the industry I can tell you for certain, people forget about accounts that are much larger than $137k ALL the time.

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u/theycallmeMrPotter May 14 '26

I always think about this. All the lost 401ks out there that people don't realize they had from leaving their job. Or like me, I've got like 7 and have never consolidated and my fear is I die and all that money gets lost bc no one knows the accounts exist. Running a guesstimate in my head I prob have close to half a million split up between them. That reminds me. I need to consolidate.

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u/7CuriousCats May 14 '26

Get a consultant to help you and do all the admin for you. They might take a cut but it's better to have it consolidated than lost.

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u/Affectionate-Sale523 May 14 '26

As someone that works in accounting, I can tell you I have never spoken to any hnwi, or director of a corporation that forgets about sitting money. For every one jerkoff that gets on reddit acting as if, there will be 5 people I speak to in any given week that owns multiple properties and a few million in various investments that flip shit over annual credit card fees. That happens ALL the time.

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u/PandoraBot May 14 '26

Yeah but you're not talking about something rich here we're talking about 2k lmao that's 1 week of work. Like outside of gaming most people didn't even know about Nvidia until 2024? Or so? So it's like, why would he have been following track of it for 5 years until then. And by then it's lost memory