The art of picking presents and stocks!

OK, a while back I posted this post about Valentines day.
Well, last week was my wife's birthday and among the ideas kicked around for presents (see my previous post on Kitchen Molding)one idea was buying some stock.

So, the next question was how do we go about choosing which one?
Which stock / present to pick for her?

Do I run my screens and pick one?
Do I ask her what stock she would like?

- Note: I did ask; and she often has the buy what you know or like theory of stock picking, which is a perfectly good method in my book.

Or do I take her Maiden Name initials and see if there is a stock with that symbol?

Now don't laugh.

Her initials are AMTD and the spokesperson for AMTD is Sam Waterston. And Sam Waterston just happens to be one of her favorite actors on one of her favorite TV shows.

Que the sound bit...

So, do you know the company the above stock symbol is for?

TD Ameritrade.

Cool.