Thanks Stash. I'm spending most of my time researching the best...

Thanks Stash.

I'm spending most of my time researching the best I can, in between writing massive borderline insane posts . I start to get a little nuts when sleep is eluding me. Had a break from it since Friday, head was getting a blurry mess, couldn't remember one thing from another or what company had what and who, I tend to jump from one thing to the next when researching at times and it leads me somewhere else and gets hard to remember what info related to which company, think I might need to keep a separate folder on each company and make sure it's a little more organised so I can reference back to it easily. Maybe even just focus on one at a time would be a nice concept. lol

Probably need to rest a little before I buy anything else too, get it together and clear my head. I'm not known to make any good decisions, even in life in general, once the sleep catches up with me. I think CFE was a right decision though even if I was being pretty much negative on everything the other day, I'm sure you can probably relate to how the depression can rob you of your optimism, it's probably the hardest part for me, one day bullish on it, the next bearish, just have to walk away when I'm bouncing between extremes so I don't make any poor decisions, especially purchases when the whole world is looking great.

Most of the stocks that I have that are doing well I had watched for a few weeks or even months prior to buying. The ones that are not doing so well were generally impulse buys that I grabbed without putting much time into them first, following the herd, the whole excitement thing kicking in, was trying to day & very short term trade but got caught on a few, only very small amounts put on them though, under 1k each across 1/2 dozen or so, except CFE that is, really had too much on it for what it is. I'm only really trying to get into things I can hopefully leave for at least 12 months now. CFE wasn't an impulse but it did look good on paper but I should have watched it longer and I should have read this entire forum and weighed it up better, have learned from being impulsive and not picking good entry points, I bought a heap of NCM when it was at a peak, and started going backward almost immediately, it is almost back to where I started now and waiting to sell it once it does, had it probably 9 months now and was all really just a waste of 9 months of tied up capital going nowhere.

Again, thanks for your time & insight, if only I had of believed you all a few months back I could have made money elsewhere by now but I'd watched too many people on these forums telling people to buy and sell just to feather their own nest and thought you blokes were doing the same. I got that @theraven was on the level and he started to make me think about it all and take a second look through it. To be honest, I thought you were just bitter about it and trying to serve a vendetta or maybe had another motive. I spent quite a few years bitter on my whole work situation, spent best part of my life building a solid business, only to collapse in a heap from overload, makes one reassess whats important & so I do get that you are trying to warn other investors, I done the same thing trying to warn people about over working themselves, and how to identify the early signs of stress related illness in the hope I could save someone, my problem went unchecked for way too long, I would have hoped my RGM & GM would have noted my slow spiral and the warning signs, but in hindsight, maybe they did, but they saw it as too big a problem, think their idea was if it's too hot then get out of the kitchen, even if we had so much work the kitchen had caught on fire and I don't think anyone would have held it all together. I was on a real crusade for a while trying to tell everyone I met about symptoms and to do something about it before it lingers and can't be recovered. Anyway telling you my life story again, not sure why really.

Catch you around somewhere on HC, I'll keep checking in here to see what it's doing, might even throw the odd post in to back you guys up when you try to warn people what they're getting into. I'll really be eating my words if it does get up though, but I'm doubting it atm.

I have to learn to stop posting such long stories though I think. , I just start typing and get on a roll, should write a book or something. I'm betting most people probably aren't too interested and have better things to do with their busy lives than get bogged down reading a short novel from a crazy dude. This stuff really doesn't have much to do with this forum/doesn't add much value and surprised they haven't been moderated.

See ya, and hoping you're winning as well.