TMFTwoCoins

Daniel Miller

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General Information

Name:
Daniel Miller
Fool Since:
January 5 2012
Aliases:
dmiller5350 (12/4/2012)

Investing Basics

Investing Experience:
Medium High
Risk Tolerance:
Medium High
Investing Style:
Value Investor
Portfolio Size:
Medium (4-12 Stocks)
Stocks I Own:
PANL,WPRT,F,BTU,IPGP,ANR,MAKO,CHK,CLB,LQDT,GM,AAPL

An Interview with TMFTwoCoins

Last updated: 2/1/2013
The Fool:
What was your first educational exposure to investing?
TMFTwoCoins:
A close family member passed, and left me a chunk of inheritance, of which I knew nothing about. So I learned over the years, eventually being confident enough to sell everything and make my own choices.
The Fool:
If you had to pick an existing song title that best describes your life, what would it be?
TMFTwoCoins:
My name on Fool.com TwoCoins comes from a song, Dispatch - Two Coins. Greeks, who placed a coin on each eye of a dead person to pay the boatman to cross the River Styx. The song is about someone who lost someone, and keeps things to remind them of the lost. Incidentally I lost two people, and both are why I'm currently at the Fool. But, that's a different and long story.
The Fool:
Tell us about Your Dumbest Investment... and the lesson you learned from it.
TMFTwoCoins:
My very first investment, which was the free $100 I got for opening my OptionsXpress account, was PRMW. I thought it was going to be the next SODA, supposedly challenging them as soon as the holiday season. Turned out it was a bust, it dropped from 3.60 to 1.20 (today). I learned not to mess with stocks with smaller capitalization, I had better, safer, ideas.
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My Story

Well this was a fun couple months in my life! I had a fine career going in Marketing, as a Product Manager. I was doing well and up for a promotion. I was blogging for the Fool on the side, to help pay for my new car and fund my trading habits. Anyways, I happened to write about companies that were associated with my day job. I used no inside information, drew no conclusions from inside information, just made a sound analysis from public information. Turns out the CEO of the company saw it, tracked me down over Linked In, saw who I worked for and gave my CEO a ring. My CEO issued a written apology, one of our national salesmen spent hours on the phone trying to save my job. But ultimately it came down to an account worth tens of millions asking for my resignation. So, my CMO gave me a great recommendation and I went on my way. Obviously I still had a house, new car, student loans to pay for, so I blogged a little bit more and the Fool.com threw me a bone to write full time. It's been a blessing in disguise, life is a funny thing.