No body likes to be holding on to losing stocks. Those are hard earn money, but unfortunately it is part and parcel of stock investment. Even the best investor will get surprised once in a while. The more important question is what are you going to do about it. Will you shun the stock market because you have suffered or are you going to take it as an opportunity to learn and do better next time? Your answer to that question will lead you to very different actions on your losing stocks.

if you feel that stock investment is too volatile and is too risky for you, I would suggest sticking to index investment or other asset class investment with lower volatility. Stock investment is definitely not the only way to increase ones wealth.

If you want to like to continue with stock investment, I would suggest you start by ...