Don’t make Buffett’s $10 billion mistake…

I can’t decide whether I’m jinxed, or whether I’m just proof that Murphy’s Law is real and, well, Murphy is just a no-good so-and-so.

Whatever the reason, if you owned certain US stocks before last night, you’re welcome.

See, I’d been planning to buy some US companies for a while now. But, between getting the money into my US brokerage account (in US dollars), and the trading rules here at The Motley Fool (yes, okay, and my never quite getting around to it), I just hadn’t done it.

So, last night, after dinner, I sat down and finalised my list of the companies I wanted to buy with the cash I had in the account.

Then, this morning, I woke up, and…

And the shares were up. 

By quite a bit.

Bloody Murphy’s Law.

So, I…