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Originally Posted by Gerald
The number of share you buy of a stock does not change how much you can make/loose.
What is important is the % change of the total money that you invest.
It does not matter if you buy 1000 shares at $ 50 Or......buy 5000 shares at $10. This would be a $ 50,000 investment.
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Yes the money is the same. But buying a larger quantity of shares in a stock that has room to grow will make you more money.
Stocks that are at all time highs won't give you a 300% gain anytime soon. But a smaller cap stock at $10 that is good fundamentally, can grow exponentially higher and make you a ton of money.
Or, look at what Cheniere Energy did the past 5 years. Would you buy it now hoping to make a ton of money? No, you wouldn't. But if you bought 10,000 shares when it was at $5, then you would have hit a home run!!.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Apple is a bad buy. It's more of a stock I would use to put "already made" money, like from Cheniere, so as to protect it for the long haul into retirement.