In other words, you would have done better with a savings account. Of course it does. However, having confidence in your own ability will allow you to push ahead. But all the confidence in the world, by itself, is not enough. You must also keep in mind that change is also inevitable.
Problems are inevitable.
Even the largest and most successful corporate monoliths are vulnerable to adversity. Unless you have access to inside information, it is impossible to predict the course of a stock in the short term. As a shareholder you are tying yourself to the fortunes of a particular company, not to the daily fluctuations of the overall market. It is becoming a normal occurrence for the investment world to overreact to almost any piece of news, good or bad. Nonetheless, it appears that the worst of the bad news about the second quarter is behind us with a pickup in earnings momentum during the third quarter being the most likely scenario.