Thanks for the reply.

Yes, it was probably more about the investors holding for as long as they do. It certainly makes sense when you get those massive gains from the likes of XRO which I did hear from a couple of people who invested in them and did bloody well - an element of luck must come into play in some of those instances I would have thought.

I guess the one's I researched and looked at to see how they performed over the last 5 years got me thinking why invest for that long when in some cases, they were basically flat or losing money the whole time.

There's probably a lot of novices like myself who saw some big drops in mid March and decided to buy like I did with ABA, for example. The harder test may be to come when I can't simply look for someone that's had a huge drop in the space of a few weeks or few days to jump on to.

This site definitely helps when you can get so many perspectives from everyone that makes you think a little bit more.