On a whim I decided to lock in my 12% gains from AMZN and invest in some shares of a company that my friend just got a fancy job at, since they went public quite recently (I thought of it because he posted pics from ringing the opening bell at NASDAQ on Facebook). That stock promptly dropped like a rock. I mean, almost instantly after my purchase, a perfectly vertical line appeared on the stock charts. I suspect my rank will be slipping... ;-)