I am in a strange crossroads right at this moment.
1. I transferred money from a checking account to a brokerage account yesterday.
2. The money is showing up in both accounts online right now.
3. A stock in my brokerage account has split during the night.
4. The brokerage is showing the correct number of doubled shares, but is still showing the old share price from yesterday, which means it is showing double the value on my balance.
So, for the next few minutes, before the systems getted synchronized, I’m going to pretend I became slightly richer overnight.
Who wants beer? I’m buying!
I just ran to the mall and picked up a few things before we became poor again, okay?
Live large while you can, I always say.
You realize that those things you bought will disappear in a *poof* once the disparate realities of your finances are resolved and your financial lives once again become synchronized.
If she bought chocolate mousse cake, that would be the best of all possible worlds. She could eat it, but it would disappear from her stomach before weight gain set in.
She could not have her cake, yet eat it, too!!
Cool! You should patent that.
Know any patent lawyers?
Stay away from Kirkpatrick-Stockland. They treat you like a bundle of cash on a stick.
Wow! I have the same stock and my broker has doubled the number of shares without adjusting the price of the split, too. So, for a few more minutes, I’m also fake-richer.
Ah, don’t you just love wealth on paper? Or in this case, wealth in cyberspace?
Almost but not quite as much as I love wealth in my physical pocket.
Can you duplicate this situation with any regularity? If so, I have a fool-proof scheme involving some low-level Russian mafia contacts, a soybean farm, and a nobel prize winning economist who likes to play the ponies a little too much. Say nothing, act casual, and wait for my call…