That's all we can do my friend. It's those few times that we are right that takes the pain and losses away from the times we are wrong. It also puts big profits away. This is what makes things exciting in what we do and why I started investing in some penny plays. Blue chips got to boring and predictable. I flip some, but I look for companies on the rise for long term gains or ones that have turned themselves around. I used to invest heavy into bio-pharm stocks, now there is real danger. FDA has tightened up and and many took beatings. I have only a few left that look promising.
I decided to focus my shift into gold and oil quite some time ago. I started posting only about 5 months ago, because reading the IHUB boards started to become quite addicting. Good luck.