Ann: Appointment of Receivers and Managers, page-118

Yeah, trouble is when you lose a large amount, it's a long, arduous and pretty tough road coming back, and even if you can, picking another so called multibagger is also pretty tough and risky. Add in tough times and all we can do is to try to toughen up ourselves.

As holders of any shares, when things go bad it sucks that us retail holders are moreover than not the last to know and to boot, the last in the pecking order and yet often get tapped for more funds even as a company is about to fold soon thereafter. There's not much regulation against this sort of this except possibly feeding more lawyers by way of class actions and years of waiting for a possible minisculed positive outcome.