To say I had a lousy 2012 would be putting it mildly. The S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) was up about 16% for the year while my trading account finished down. So what happened? Did I have a run of bad luck with a bunch of bad stocks? Nope! Due to big fat bets on Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) and Lions Gate (NYSE:LGF) I was up over 30% by March despite being over 50% in cash. Unfortunately I then ingested a lethal hubris cocktail and started dabbling in all sorts of nefarious activities including (but most definitely not limited to): 1. ...