Trading Maxims/Quotes

Discussion in 'Psychology' started by Commisso, Jan 1, 2002.

  1. The daily demands of trading are so intense that many players just grow lazy and evolve a self-destructive style. Fatigue sets in as the mind struggles to organize this world, and many shades of gray resolve into black and white illusion!

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    #501     Feb 5, 2003
  2. Small dogs have the loudest barks
     
    #502     Feb 5, 2003
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    #503     Feb 5, 2003
  4. Harry, alors pourquoi ne pas faire une partie francaise et une partie english so that everyone can understand you 100% ;)

    Just a thought / Juste une pensée
     
    #504     Feb 5, 2003
  5. Josh_B

    Josh_B

    Most if not all of them apply to trading even life itself...


    If you can’t spot the sucker after your first half hour at the table, then you are
    the sucker.
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    You play for a living. You don’t gamble. You grind it out.
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    Get your money in when you have the best of it. Protect it when you don’t.
    Don’t give anything away. A true grinder.
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    I learned how to win a little at a time. But finally I’ve learned this.If your too
    careful - your whole life can become a fuckin grind
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    I hope you not thinking of putting all that glimmer in play.
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    Some people, pros even, won’t play no limit. They can’t handle the swings.
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    Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.
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    I’m down to the felt. I lost everything.
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    Happens to everyone. From time to time everyone goes bust. You’ll be back
    in the game before you know it.
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    You don’t hear much about guys who take their shot and miss. But I’ll tell you
    what happens to them. They end up humping crappy jobs on midnight shifts
    trying to figure out how they came up short.
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    The cardinal rule. Always leave yourself outs.
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    A nickel would get me start very nicely. 220? Hey thanks, but that’s
    like 11 bets.
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    Few players recall big pots they have won. But every player can recall with
    remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career.
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    It’s immoral to let a sucker keep his money
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    You can sheer a sheep many times. But skin him only once.
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    He’s see all the angles but he doesn't’t have the balls to play one.
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    Why does this still seem like gambling to you? Why do you suppose the
    same 5 five guys make it to the finals in the world series of poker every
    single year?
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    I was watchin em when the cards came out. That’s just an old habit with me..like….breathing.

    You watched the cards?

    I watched the cards also. But I was watching the players reacting to the cards.
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    We can’t run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us.
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    also posted by tafkai on another thread



    Josh
     
    #505     Feb 12, 2003
  6. Josh_B

    Josh_B

    Throw in your cards the moment you know you can’t win. Fold the hand.
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    Your never down and out until your chips are all gone.
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    He doesn’t know what hit him.

    I know what that feels like. Like a locomotive through your stomach.
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    The move was folding. I can’t lose what I don’t put in the middle.
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    Fold or hang tough. Call or raise the bet. These are decisions you make at
    the table. Sometimes the odds are stacked so clear there’s only one way
    to play it.Other times like holding a small pair against two over cards
    it’s 6 to 5 or even money either way. Then it’s all about feel. What’s in
    your guts.
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    I tell you to play within your means, you risk your whole bankroll. I tell you
    not to over extend yourself, to rebuild , you go into hock for more.
    I was givin you a livin Mike. Showing you the playbook I made off my
    own beats. It wasn’t enough for you.
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    I put it all on the line that’s true.But you know what ..it wasn’t a bad beat.
    I wasn’t unlucky. I got outplayed. But I know I’m good enough to sit at
    that table. It’s not a pipe dream.
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    I’ve often seen these people. These squares at the table. Short stacked and
    long odds against. All their outs gone. One last card in the deck that can
    help them. I used to wonder how they could let themselves get into
    such bad shape. And how the hell they thought they could turn it around.
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    I told worm you can’t lose what you don’t put in the middle. But you can’t win much either.
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    People insist on calling it luck.
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    Josh
     
    #506     Feb 19, 2003
  7. "1/8 will always be 12 1/2 cents"
     
    #507     Feb 20, 2003
  8. When I call it a game they call it a business...and when I call it a business ...they call it a game... Nick Nolte in North Dallas Forty
     
    #508     Feb 25, 2003
  9. Josh_B

    Josh_B

    More music has been written about money than about love - and often, with a happier ending and a catchier tune.

    Katherine Neville
    A Calculated Risk, 1992
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    A fool and is money are soon parted. What I want to know is how they got together in the first place.

    Cyril Fletcher
    BBC radio program, May 28, 1969
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    There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted but now it happens to everybody.

    Adlai Stevenson
    Money Talks
    Rosalie Maggio, 1998, p. 18
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    A rogue trader is someone who loses money. What do you call someone who makes money? ‘Sir' or ‘boss.'

    Phillip McBryde Johnson
    Pensions & Investments Symposium on Risk Management
    December 5, 1995
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    The market will weed out financially incapable rogue players.

    Juan Pujada, partner, Price Waterhouse
    Risk, January, 1995
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    I'm always nervous when a guy makes a lot of money . . . I've seen guys do what I call calendar spreads on their wives . . . sell the old, buy the new. That's a bad sign.

    Brad Rotter, money manager
    Futures, November, 1994, p. 16
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    The ultimate error is to put a ton of money with geniuses who 'never lose money.' When all hell breaks loose, those guys lose everything.

    Jerry Parker, Chesapeake Capital
    The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 1998, p. C1

    LTCM and couple others comes to mind reading the above..
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    On Enron Web site: Most of the things we do have never been done before.
    The most dramatic of those "things" involved turning a $90 per share blue-chip company into a 25 cent per share pile of dust.

    Steve Zwick
    Futures
    January, 2002, pp. 66-67


    Josh
     
    #509     Feb 28, 2003
  10. Josh_B

    Josh_B

    The worst thing a trader can have is an "attitude."

    Donald R. Katz
    "The Boys in the Pits"
    Esquire, January, 1981, p. 38
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    The best thing a trader can have is discipline.

    Donald R. Katz
    "The Boys in the Pits"
    Esquire, January, 1981, p. 38
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    It's economic warfare, but it's good warfare. It's damn good warfare.

    Anonymous trader
    quoted in Esquire, January, 1981, p. 39
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    My life is trading and trading is my life. It brings you closer to your psyche than anything else I know. Nowhere else is winning so close to losing and losing so close to winning.

    Marc Steindl
    Futures, July, 1996, p. 82
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    I have never, ever been in the futures market myself; I don't have the skill for it.

    P. M. Johnson, departing chairman
    Commodity Futures Trading Commission
    The Wall Street Journal, April 29, 1983
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    Make 10 points on a million trades - not a million points on 10 trades.

    William Greenspan, futures trader
    Futures, January, 1995, p. 38
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    I am older now. I have more than I had hoped for but I wish that I had started long before I did.

    Crosby, Stills and Nash
    "Wasted on the Way"
    1982
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    You can get as fancy as you want with your option strategies, but in this business, there's no substitute for being right. There's never been a guarantee for incremental returns.

    Gene Brody, Oppenheimer Capital
    Risk, June. 1995, p. 22
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    It goes to show that when you are confused, it is best to do nothing.

    George Soros
    Futures, October, 1995, p. 72
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    Any day that you're not belly-up is a good day in this business.

    Mark Ritchie
    God in the Pits: Confessions of a Commodities Trader, 1990, p. 1
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    A career where success would never be determined politically, but only by the results produced on the bottom line of the account balance sheet.

    Mark Ritchie
    God in the Pits: Confessions of a Commodities Trader, 1990, p. 172
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    Josh
     
    #510     Mar 4, 2003