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Originally Posted by Peter Gibbons
I have a boat anchor of a bank stock (FITB) that I’ve been carrying around for way too long with the misplaced hope it would finally get back to a level where I could break even. Over the past couple of weeks it’s made a nice run and I can now walk away not only whole but up $44k. I am glad to be free of it. The good/bad is that the payment will be via check and take a week or so to get to me. I think I am going to sit on the cash and wait for a good correction before buying something else.
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Just a few months after dumping this stock that was sideways for about a decade for me, it has shot up by 30 some percent costing me tens of thousands in unrealized gains due to my early exit. I hate to second guess myself with 20/20
hindsight, but this one really hurts. I sold at $31.50. It’s been as high as $43 in the past couple of weeks. I feel admitting this loss publicly is part of my penance for the stupid way I handled this investment for over a decade. I am considering sewing a scarlet 5/3 onto my shirt. The shame. The shame. The shame.