Aggie wrote:"Then there's the Happy Clappers who spend the most...

Aggie wrote:
"Then there's the Happy Clappers who spend the most inordinate amount of time scouring the web and posting information that can make a vulnerable STUDENT who was on here recently and bought (if I recall) 200,000 shares and couldn't offload them at 2.2 so now its 1.5!!! "

Dear Aggie, who are the people you refer to as "spending an inordinate amount of time scouring the web etc" It's not hard, it takes no time at all really, as the experienced traders would tell you.

AND why should a student be any different to anyone else who participates in the market. His/her money is just the same as everyone else's. The market doesn't discriminate. (In fact, I would have thought a student might be a sharper than the rest of us, being young and more mentally agile than the more jaded traders.) Perhaps your student just paid for a lesson in risk management ... as most of us do.