Hindsight is a terrible thing

In 2003 I bought a million shares in a stock called Paladin (ASX: PDN) at 1.6 cents. I sold them two weeks later for 3.2 cents having doubled my money and pocketed $16,000. Heroic. Except for the fact that three years later Paladin hit $9.57. Hindsight is a terrible thing. Financially I was done and…