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Yep. That I did. I looked at the previous 5 years for both of these companies and saw solid and consistent growth and so thought it would be a good way to boost my savings at a rate higher than bank interest. When they started falling, I held thinking they'd rebound. But both of them, without fail, kept sliding further and further down. At some point you have to realise it's time to cut your losses and that your money would be better invested elsewhere, and so I sold low. Both of those shares have continued to perform badly since January and if I had have kept holding I would have only lost more and more.

BAL was my saviour and has taken the bitterness away from my experiences with the share market

Honestly though, look at DMP and TPM and what happened to both following July 2016. There's no way I could have ever predicted that!