<prompt> Human: Ive made a series of poor decisions investing in the stock market and after 10 years am getting out of it completely. Most of what I had was decimated from margin calls from the oil crash at the beginning of this year but still have eight stock holdings left, between 100-200 shares each with a total account value of 3000. All of these stocks except one are tanking and probably will never recover. The only one not tanking has barely gone up at all.Initially I was thinking I would sell off a portion of them each year to pay less in taxes but Im really not too clear on how that works. Its my preference to liquidate what little I have left everything and close my stock account just to put everything behind me and move on; wanted advice from others before doing that though.Edit: What Id really like to know is whether or not Id be paying less in taxes if I sell off little by little each year. I would really like to sell everything and be done with it but if Im going to be paying significantly more in taxes Ill sell off gradually.  <response>: A lazy portfolio that includes stock market index funds and bond market index funds is a good idea. Gambling on individual stocks, as youve found, is not a good idea. 