Most investors consider the consistent rise in share price as proxy for safety. Often not true!.
True success and satisfaction in stock investments comes from owning both your failures and your successes.
Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness.
Stocks are also like Golf; while you are sure to hit a birdie, eagle, albatross, you wind up hitting one or two over par!
Speculators always present opportunities for genuine investors to -- pick under-priced stocks, and- exit over-priced
Love is like stocks, if you don't want to suffer loss quickly, you better diversify!