You raise some good points. If I were sitting on a bunch of shares with a loss that had a good chance of becoming a gain, independent of anything else, I would wait also, unless there was a faster way to make it back some other way. I'm doing that someplace else and kicking myself for allowing myself to be distracted. I had a proven technique that I became bored with and then I screwed up. So, the pain of waiting is killing me; but the instant that I recover, I won't do it again. It forced me to develop some alternatives, all the time I have to sit through the drawdown. I don't like feeling this way. I have goals to meet. I'm not doing it again (self talk).