selling everything was a mistack.d to use a topnotch s&p futures-led sell-off to pick at, not load up on your ones like i do for action alerts, my charitable trust. your favorite stocks after the sell-off ends. they always end. not all your stocks will bottom at the same time. but if you rank them you probably won't care when they bottom. the best ones will be put on sale along with the other merchandise. the good with the bad. with the wheat, the chaff. but getting out of everything at the same time doesn't leave room for the next american stores. just takes you out of some of the best stocks out there. awful timing. here's the bottom line. not every big decline is the end of the world. never trade like it's the apocalypse. go to the supermarket of stocks, find out, what you want to buy on weakness and remember, i checked out of the most important stock i liked in my zeal to get into that ten items or less line. because of my haste, my overwhelming bearishness i missed the huge american stores buyout and a magnificen