Any person who's experienced in investing probably has lost money on investments. Many "investors" are/were traders who tried to trade the market to make some extra short term money. I'm no different. I've made some, lost some, on average, I probably made. My best returns are probably just made passively. Sitting on high dividend stocks for some years. Easy, low risk, low volatility, I get good sleep. My worst investments are when I try to execute some trading plan/pattern trading... I usually lose money. So whenever someone talks about investments. How good they are, etc... I always take it with a pinch of salt. Many times, what we read online, financial bloggers, traders, whatever... you usually never see or hear the bad trades. I really don't like to talk about investments. Cos it's so simple, yet so difficult. So many people with differing views and needs and risk tolerances. If someone hasn't lost sleep over their investments, then probably ......