Your comments tonight i.e.: “don’t beat yourself up over a loss” hit me
right between the eyes.

My husband and I have been investing for many years. Our portfolio
thanks to Lucent, Intel and the like was at approx. $180,000.00
My husband wanted to sell, but I enjoyed watching the stocks move up almost everyday.
When they started to fall, I still didn’t want to sell, I believed they would
go back up. We had a $50,000.00 margin account, stocks were so low that
they were sold to cover it.

I was depressed, because it was my fault that we held onto the stocks. College and wedding money for our three daughters gone, vacations gone, and my husband has to work a little harder if we want to build that portfolio again.

I no longer trust my decisions, in fact, I can’t follow through when I
make a decision. I wanted to buy some shares of Google at its IPO, sell the 200 shares of Ebay to cover it, but I never made the call. I owned Giant (GI) when I heard Western Refining was buying it, I thought it would be a good idea to sell
GI and buy WNR at $24. a share, but lost the nerve.

In short, I am the person you told your viewers they would become if they
didn’t let go of the guilt of making a bad decision. It’s not pretty.

I enjoy your show, and I will try to stop feeling guilty everytime I look at my family. Wish me luck.