[duxup]

Years ago I took a random day off.

I remembered after breakfast I had some old stock options that were never worth much and some stock I had been buying via an employee stock plan.

I knew the company stock was doing well so I log in and find that day the stock had jumped a fair amount.

It occurred to me that "I'm never going to see a return like this any other time and I almost forgot this was even here"... so I sold it all.

The stock sold at a penny or two less than the all-time high that it would ever reach.

That was a few months before everything hit the fan with the mortgage crisis.

I like to tell that story about how calling a high or bottom in the market is pretty hard and the only time I ever did it it was because I took the day off on the right day.