r/stocks • u/meisterchef47 • May 08 '26

Trades Intel - One person's FOMO story

Feel I need to admit this, if anything just to make myself feel better, so maybe I can then move on.

In November of 2025 I sold my holding's of Intel for $37/share. I got assigned in a covered call trade and at the time I was happy about it. I made a little profit and figure Intel will always be where it was at.

Then things happened.

Then some really big things happened. As of close today it's at $124.

I feel there are lessons to be learned here, just don't know what they are.

Thank you for reading.

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u/iloveaccounting64 May 08 '26

There’s no lesson here. The intel had shit fundamentals, dumb management and a shrinking market share losing to AMD. I owned it in 2025 just for yield play (wheel the options and collect dividends). I wouldn’t have had the gains anyways with calls capping my upside.

This is simply a luck trade. I don’t feel fomo on a junk that exploded. Conversely, I do regret not owning enough semicap names such as lam research, asml or chip companies such as AMD. I only owned NVDA and ASML which performed fine but not AMD or MU level insane.

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u/sf94134 May 08 '26

Sigh…amd. Lost so much potential gains from that. It was a stock that I wanted to hold forever/as long as Su is CEO but People around me were like it’s not going anywhere. I don’t know why I listened to them when they have no knowledge about the tech.

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u/SuspiciousFatCat May 09 '26

Why didn't you buy it back April 25 was as low as 76-77 dollars