1) You are incorrect in your view of stocks and their value. Some would even argue that if you BOUGHT the stock at $5 and that it went to $10 but then you sold at $8 that you didn't lose $2 but you gained $3. YOU DO NOT REALIZE A LOSS UNLESS YOU SELL. That is the correct view on that. Since YOU took money out of the market, the amount I have gained from being in is RIDICULOUS. You have no idea.
2) What you say about it being a no-brainer should be right up your alley then...since you need no brain to do it. UNLESS I can go in with several people who all put in $50,000 and eventually one wins and we all split, OR I get to take those odds as many times as I want, then I want no part of that deal. If it's a one-time thing, give $50,000 for a 1-in-4 shot of winning $1 million, then no thanks. That's flat out gambling, and brother, that kind of attitude will get you nowhere in life.
I'm going to have to stop conversing with you...seriously. I mean, I'm ok with it if people have differing opinions, but I'm FAR from an idiot and the other things you've said. I'm not OFFENDED by anything you say, and I can write and debate better than you can and provide evidence that I'm right, and I even have most people here siding with me against you, but I seek smart people to converse with, and anyone who calls ME dumb is not smart at all, so I lose interest.
You go ahead and take money out at 15,000 and declare it's going down to 13,000 if you want and then try try try as you will to try to make that look like it was a good idea, and then keep jumping in and out of the market like you have been doing even though the stats say you stack the odds against you when you do that.
You have proven yourself uninteresting to me, so unless you have a question in which you are actually seeking some advice from me (because you DO need that, brother), then I'll likely not respond to you again. No other reason than you're just a bore.