I can't see you ever making money with this kind of investment strategy.
Investing is punting.
If your too worried about the next two months not being as good as January, then you will never find anything you like cause nothing is a given with mining.
From exploration side you can never tell when the next hole will be the end of the deposit.
To production side you can never tell when sth will blow out and cost you days of production.
If you only invest in companies after the results come in, you aren't going to make any money in mining stocks, your just going to forever be paying off the people who took the punt.
It's interesting to hear opinions of those doing deep due diligence at 16cents after selling, same people who bought probably at double that price and did seemingly no due diligence on the merge or commissioning, now after a failure it's time to share expertise is it
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My first TAW buy was 18cents and I sold out in the mid 40's prior to commissioning why cause I know commissioning can be terrible, I say decent numbers came back alittle early, but saved plenty of juice for this eventuality, I regret nothing this is life if your expecting 100% smooth ride at all times prepare to be forever disappointed.
To me sounds like you should strongly consider spending your time focusing on other kinds of investments, your focus here isn't productive.