OK, here is the sad story. I played 50NL till my BR was 2k, then 100NL till my BR was 4k then 200NL till BR was 5400. That took prob 15k hands. The disaster struck and I lost (destacked) a set of Jacks to a set of Kings, Q high flush on the flop to a big raiser preflop who had AK flush. Sets lost to flushes, 4 of a kind to a str8 flush (yea my 4th 8 made his str8 flush) and the like. Every kind of suck out imaginable, and I was back to 2k. I moved back down to .5/1 and got killed some more. Varience kicked my ass in January and I ended up back down to $8! Back to .05/.10 again. Feb i built it up to $100, March 1st 2 weeks at .10/.25 built back up to $250, Went back to .50/1.00 for 1 wk and up to 1k. Went to .50/1.00 for a week and am back at 2k. Since being busted down to $8 I have about 3k hands and a 20bb/100 stat. I think I'll stay at the 100NL now till 4k. I know I have been playing over my BR, but I think I am a decent player when I keep Mr Jeckel at bay. I think I could have avaoided the huge slide if I had not stayed at the higher limits when I hit the neg varience streak. So my question is really aimed to help other players avoid this costly mistake. Hence the post: "What is the correct time to move down a level?" I still can't believe I blew $5k! I made it before, I can make it again. I am proud to be back at $2k. No more disasters please.