Good Trading Quotable Quotes

"If you don't invest, you cannot expect to profit." Talmud, Megila 6

"Most of the time when markets move, no one has any idea why. A man who can tell a good story can make a good living as a broker." Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

"The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing." Philip Fisher, Common Stocks Uncommon Profits

"A man has to guard against many things, and most of all against himself - that is, against human nature." Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." John Maynard Keynes

 

"you don't climb a tree to look for a fish" Chinese trading proverb

 

Defy human nature - do the work yourself.

Jim Twentyman

 

"I learned to avoid trying to catch up or double up to recoup losses. I also learned that a certain amount of loss will affect your judgment, so you have to put some time between that loss and the next trade."

Richard Dennis

 

"Every wave has an undertow"

me

"a dove in hand is better than 100 flying"

Honduran saying

 

this is worthwhile:

http://www.performance-appraisal.com/SecretsOfMasterTraders.htm

 

"To whatever degree you haven't accepted the risk, is the same degree to which you will avoid the risk. Trying to avoid something that is unavoidable will have disastrous effects on your ability to trade successfully."

Mark Douglas

 

W.D. Gann said.... "If you will only study the weakness of human nature and see what fools these mortals are.....you will find it easy to make profits by understanding the frailty of human nature and going against the public and doing opposite of what the public does."

 

One common adage that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.

William Eckhardt

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Trenders - "The Trend Is Your Friend Until It Bends."

 

"He who goes to bed with itchy butt,wake up with stinky finger"
...ancient chinese proverb

"Buy low. Sell high. Fear, that's the other guy's problem"
...Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places

"Even a blind hog sometimes finds an acorn"
...Darrell, guy in Ga. bar I know

"The key to getting women is Confidence"
...Elvis

" I went by the Corn pit and a trader yelled out , Hook em Horns, so I did (gestured by hooking index fingers together), now I own a bunch of corn"
...Pres. Bush at the CBOT

"Know the Close and you'll know success"
...TraderRich ClosingTrend.com