AAPL (80% of portfolio)
Congratulations on a winning gamble for now.
I'm not your significant other, but if I were him or her, I'd recommend you to diversify your assets immediately and get treatment for your gambling addiction. If not, this will end badly at some point. You know that. You can feel that yourself.
I'd say the "investor alley" section is not the appropriate place for this kind of post though. Apart from being a textbook example of how not to invest, it's got nothing to do with investing.
Your gambling has some semblance of investing, just enough for less financially literate people to get confused about the difference between investing and gambling.
A bit dramatic don't you think? Just because the OP doesn't invest like we would want doesn't mean he/she has a gambling addiction.
I retract this unfortunate wording.
I do think there is an incredibly interesting philosophical (if not practical) conversation here. The difference between having everything in AAPL versus everything in Tesla versus everything evenly split in 8 stocks (like average folk used to do to diversify) versus 100% VTI versus a 50/50 portfolio versus 100% money market versus a night of black jack with expected return of -0.5% per hand, versus a night of poker for a very good player, versus the money put into opening a restaurant, etc. In all of that there is complicated and interesting plays around expected return, risk mitigation, timeline, etc. The degree of risk and/or diversification one sees in a portfolio seems so all over the place (e.g. many feel "fully invested/diversified" in the market with VTI, while someone with VT laughs at them....)
I used to laugh at a casino with a buddy of mine that would be devasted with a $100 loss on the night because I knew he, like me, owned a business at the time that could make or lose many thousands every day, much of it out of our control (you try to float as little as you can and get your clients to pay on time, and you try to pick clients that will not file for bankruptcy or challenge your bills (to an extent that would dissolve your entire profit margin), and you hope you picked the right projects and charged the right amount, but in the end there was a lot of chance involved, thank god I got out before covid, I know my primary client clamped down on the wallet so who knows if , when, and how much I would have been paid of huge amounts outstanding).
My dad can't believe I have a 75/10/15 (stocks/bonds /cash) portfolio nearing RE and that I would be such the "gambler".
Sometimes investing in the entire stock market (so blindly investing in thousands of companies I know nothing about), I do feel like much more of a gambler than someone who is carefully selecting their companies to invest in (which does require one to greatly limit the diversification possible thru indexing). I do basically have the feeling that I'm like someone at a roulette table that generally has the 'odds' slightly in their favor, a positive expected return, but never quite sure, kinda like if a bet on black also paid out on the zeros, most of the time, but no one ever promised that was the rule ahead of time, I just know they usually have done it that way in the past so kinda expect/hope that continues...
Sorry, tangent.