Ah yes Worldcom and Bernie Ebbers. One of the reasons I have the crappy Sprint stock in my portfolio. When I was with Sprint the talking heads were constantly telling us how we were going to merge with Worldcom and be the biggest telecom in the world and we should load up on the stock. Well, we all know what happened with that deal.
I'm okay with hanging on to the common stock I have because one day it will either go up or be a nice tax write off. The problem I have is I took stock options instead of cash for bonuses multiple times and they were still worth nothing when they expired after 10 years. I did exercise some but lost thousands on the others. Good times there I tell ya.
Staying out of the Bitcoin game and investing in marijuana stocks for almost nothing and transitioning to a more conservative portfolio as I eye retirement.