Consecutive
trading losses hurt.
Not exact matches
Sure, those who feel they have been
hurt by free
trade agreements are probably more motivated by their
losses than the benefactors of free
trade are motivated by their gains.
The
loss of
trade with Russia
hurts (they wouldn't be
trading with them in the first place if they weren't the most cost - effective option) but alternatives are easier to come by and makes up a much smaller portion of their economic activity.
Delisting can make a stock more difficult to
trade, trigger sales by certain institutional investors and result in a
loss of confidence in the stock that can further
hurt the stock price.
For the few
trades that do badly for a long time — 20 of them over the last 25 years, of course it
hurts, but the gains far outweigh the
losses, so I ignore those, except to memorialize why the failure happened, and feed that back into my investing processes.