RE:any help will be greatly appreciated
If you lost 5k that means that you bought high and sold low. Stop doing that. If you pick good stocks, their will be a recurrent up and down cycles that will allow you to minimize losses if you do a mistake. If you are a long term holder of stocks, day to day wins and losses don't matter. If you are day trading but are not a professional, tone down the trading and let time help you out. Case and point: Oil was a loser in 2015 up until February. Those that didn't sell their oil stocks (in good oil companies) now own stocks with companies trading oil at 45-50$. Gold has exploded since February 2016. There were plenty of ups and downs in the gold traded companies. Anyone that did a bad bid in gold could simply wait a week or two and gold would retrace back more often than not. In one word: patience.