I had it in one of their high-risk portfolio's that lost over 70% of it's value on Black Monday, then got hammered several more times over the course of the next decade.

After the whole energy trading fiasco, I took over my own trading (how much worse could I do on my own?). My account was well below the $10K mark at that point.

What pissed me off the most was with every posted loss they still made sure to take their operating percentage. Fucking assholes, charging me a fee to lose my money.

In the last couple of years I've more then doubled what was left of my investments. With any luck, I'll break even by the time I retire.
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I'd rather be ignorant than stupid. Ignorance implies a lack of knowledge which is easily correctable through education. Stupidity implies an inability to learn. Therefore; ignorance is temporary, stupidity is forever!