Ever hear anything like this--

[raccoon]

"I bought ABC stock in April at $30 a share, sold it eighteen months later at $13."

People always talk about when they made a good trade, not a bad one. I don't blame them. I wouldn't either. :-)

[A HERETIC I AM]

1. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results"

The mantra of investing.

[question everything]

2. In the same line as

"my son was accepted to Harvard"

but never

"my son is now in jail..."