Sell sell sell. Youre often avoiding pain, but youre also likely to miss the big opportunities. Sometimes you need t deal with a bit of anguish to be in a position to rack up the longterm gains, but thats very hard to do if youre always flitting in and out of stocks at a moments notice. We see this thinking play out every day including today. The nasdaq dipped and i frankly find the behavior disturbing. Theres no clear example of this sort of stock not owning, but renting than facebook. For the last couple days, the stock has been under pressure. The reason . A Research Note came out recently saying that what facebook reports in roughly two weeks, it might disappointed [ baby crying ] holy cow. A stock thats up big with a quarter that might disappointed . Isnt that a clarion call to sell sell sell . Cmon, right . S wait a second. Every single Time Facebook has reported, there have been rumors it could be a rocky quarter. The problem is, if you really want to risk selling the stock of a