Joe,
This is a big boys game, I don't think you did anything wrong at all. People are not happy because they may be down money, but hey this is a tough game or else everyone would be rich!
I made a call and everything checked out, I don't blame you for selling when you did, that's that game buy low, sell high.
Tinkerer if you couldn't afford to lose $8K then you should be here. Alter your time horizon and you would be fine.
Anyway, no worries for me, I don't have that much skin in the game....yet. This looks like a great buying opportunity is on it's way soon.
No more from me for a while.