Bottom line: Education is a positive payoff
When the dust finally clears, the stock chart shows a dramatic "blip" that transferred wealth to the enticers from the enticed, but failed to alter the stock's longer-term trend
However, there is an important gain the enticed should take away: The experience of being drawn into an investment by dreams of easy money. This feeling is the reliably recurrent driver of investment bubbles.
Especially important in investing is to embrace the truism, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." In other words, say "Thank you!" when a Wall Street action mistreats you, allowing you to improve your strategy for investing success.
Such hard-knock lessons are typical in the valuable investing education curriculum. The important takeaways are both the lesson, itself, and the resolve not to repeat it.
