To be clear... you don't really own any of the stock you purchase from TD Ameritrade, Vanguard, Fidelity, etc. The stocks you buy are held "for you" (in "street name") but are not owned BY you. Everyone - whether you own GameStop (GME), Apple (APPL), etc.... needs to DIRECT REGISTER YOUR SHARES at ComputerShare!
yep I know. very few people knew that until GME and the APES over there on reddit discovered it. I moved shares to computershare but have shares in an IRA that I don't want to fuck with at the moment.
You're living dangerously with that other 80%. I'm the opposite, with 3/4 of mine safe and secure with Computershare, and the other 1/4 with risky brokers.
To be clear... you don't really own any of the stock you purchase from TD Ameritrade, Vanguard, Fidelity, etc. The stocks you buy are held "for you" (in "street name") but are not owned BY you. Everyone - whether you own GameStop (GME), Apple (APPL), etc.... needs to DIRECT REGISTER YOUR SHARES at ComputerShare!
yep I know. very few people knew that until GME and the APES over there on reddit discovered it. I moved shares to computershare but have shares in an IRA that I don't want to fuck with at the moment.
You're living dangerously with that other 80%. I'm the opposite, with 3/4 of mine safe and secure with Computershare, and the other 1/4 with risky brokers.