lol... You own $15 of stock and commissions/transaction fees will be $19.98. Maybe it will go up 30% for you to break even?
Don't worry, I once blew $9.99 selling all my C -- I accidentally sold all but a few shares, so just sucked up the commission.
You want to know pain? Back around 1998 (before I knew any better) I bought shares in United Companies Financial when the price dropped precipitously. I used to work for them in 1990. I bought all the way down. This time UC did not survive. They were ruined by the Russian Debt Crises of 1998 and went bankrupt. I lost about $20,000.
After the filing I had about 14,000 shares of this now penny stock. The shareholders kept in touch via Yahoo stock message board and we formed a creditors committee and hired a lawyer to represent us in the bankruptcy. Because of our tenacity, and because this was a relatively new thing to meet in cyberspace and fight a corporate bankruptcy, we were mentioned in the Wall Street Journal.
Finally around late 2001 we were awarded by the court of .45 cents per share. We knew this was coming because it had been discussed but we thought we where going to get checks based on participation in the lawsuit. I dumped all the shares in 2000 for .005 cents per share and recognized the loss for tax purposes.
The NASDAQ at the time made the decision to pay our recovery in the form of a dividend and as a result of selling my shares in 2000, I received nothing in 2001! You could have been buying hundreds of thousands of shares for .001 to .005 cents per share for a year with the advance knowledge and you would have been handsomely rewarded. Some of us did, but I didnt think they were going to pay it as a dividend. I missed out on $6,000+, not to mention the fortune I could have made buying more shares.
Anyway, we sued the NASDAQ for this and lost. It was like an extra kick in the teeth after losing so much money. The only good thing was I received a separate check based on our D&O liability suit against the insurance companies for about $2,000.
Karma paid me back however around 2007.
After remembering what happens to financial companies when the creditor banks turn off the spigots due to bad collateral, I shorted the ever-living-hell out of New Century Financial and rode it from $18.00 to $2. I did the same for Freemont and made a little on American Home shorting that too. All told I made about $60,000 in 2007.
Then 2008 came and took all my money away. :'(
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