dude I am doing just fine. I lost some $ on Sabina and I made some on tech stocks. Net result, my stocks have been flat in a stock market that's up overall. Not great but you can't expect to beat the market all the time. No doubt there will be a day when techs are down and PMs are up. In the long run deep value investing has worked well for me. Right now I am buying more Sabina.
There is never an endpoint in the market unless a company goes bankrupt. You may have made a move that worked out well for you for a period of time.
After the crash of 2008 I did learn a big lesson. Rome did not fall in a day and neither will fiat currencies. I am currently about 60% in US dollars. The dollar has done well despite the fact that it is being debauched. At some point one will not want to be holding the bag on fiat money. I don't know when that tipping point is going to come.
But once the fat lady sings the most valid criticism of my investment philosophy is that I overlearned the lesson of 2008 and was too heavily invested in worthless US dollars.