Investing in collectibles?

Curious to see if anyone else here invests in alternative assets like art, trading cards, books, etc. I was super into that stuff when I was younger and the returns over the past few years have been absolutely stellar (e.g., if you invested in certain Pokémon boxes ~5 years ago they have increased 5x-10x).

I just dumped my last IB bonus into a few different assets that I think (from my research/experience) have the best chance of 10xing over the next few years. And the great thing is that they are almost 0% chance of losing value (i.e., worst case downside scenario is being able to sell them at original retail price). Obviously there’s a lot more work involved with actually selling the assets at the end (time, fees, etc.) and they’re relatively illiquid, but you can make some crazy returns. I wish I had a full year PE bonus to deploy because there are plenty of good investment opportunities right now.

Also, just to be clear, I max out my 401k and have a bunch of money in a Roth IRA/traditional savings account - I feel like I have more than enough exposure to S&P/Nasdaq.

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I've been investing in Pokemon for around a decade (first year analyst now, and have been investing since my job at 14).

Here is my MoIC for each year:

2015: 17.81x gross, 14.6x net

2016: 10.77x gross, 8.83x net

2017: 8.88x gross, 7.28x net

2018: 4.29x gross, 3.52x net 

2019: 4.78x gross, 3.92x net 

2020: 3.3x gross, 2.7x net 

2021: 1.21x gross, .99x net

2022: 1.08x gross, .89x net

2023: held at cost

Net total MoIC is 3.21x (heavily weighted towards recent years)

Total current value: $101k

Net value (after taxes, insurance, and eBay fees): $83k

Total cost: $26k

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