investing your money ;)

If the stock you bought is 1/2 the value you bought it at... you have a loss... It may not be realized at that time for tax purposes, but, NOBODY is going to give you your original purchase price when they can buy it for half from someone else. It's a loss and your net liquidity reflect that current number. That's a bad mindset to have that it's not a loss until you sell it. Ask the people at enron, worldcom and other companies that went BK and they never sold if they have a loss.

Funny thing, I hold no stock anymore. I'm 100% cash. I like the sp500, crude oil and gold futures trading. Every day, flat overnight.

The NUMBER 1 killer of accounts is bagholding losers. I know people that are right 80% of the time. The problem, when they are wrong, they don't GTFO. The 2 out of 10 losing trades , KILL any profits from the winners. Many times to a factor of 2X or more. "it's going to come back" is the bagholders mantra. Control losses and capital preservation are name of the game.