Trading Quotes and Messages

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stocks, not selling advice.

An investor without investment objectives is like a traveler without a destination.

Trading effectively is about assessing probabilities, not certainties.

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

There is a time to go long, a time to go short, and a time to go fishing.

In investing what is comfortable is rarely profitable.

Never, ever argue with your trading system.

A great trader is like a great athlete. You have to have natural skills, but you have to train yourself how to use them.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it. He who doesn’t pay it.

Rising tide lifts all boats over the wall of worry and exposes bears swimming naked.

The trend is your friend – until it stabs you in the back with a chopstick.

You’re going to learn a million things, then you need to forget them all and focus on one.

You can lose your opinion of you can lose your money.

It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Trading is very competitive and you have to be able to handle getting your butt kicked.

The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

Time is your friend; impulse is your money.

In trading, everything works sometimes and nothing works always.

There is a huge difference between a good trade and good trading.

The expectation that you bring with you in trading is often the greatest obstacle you will encounter.

The fundamental law of investing is the uncertainty of the future.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong. I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

In trading/investing, it’s not about how much you make but rather how much you don’t lose.

Learn to take losses. The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand.

I believe in analysis and not forecasting.

Trading doesn’t just reveal your character, it also builds it if you stay in the game long enough.

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 percent of the time, they would make a lot more money.

Only the game, can teach you the game.

I know where I’m getting out before I get in.

If you personalise losses, you can’t trade.

A handful of men have become very rich by paying attention to details that most others ignored.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die of euphoria.

The feelings we accept and enjoy rarely interfere with trading.

Never let a win go to your head, or a loss to your heart.

Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

Losses are necessary, as long as they are associated with a technique to help you learn from them.

You make most of your money in a bear market; you just don’t realize it at the time.

Most people don't understand the process. They get frustrated by it. Don't Be. Focus

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.

Before I enter a trade, I set stops at a point which the chart sours.

Trade what’s happening… Not what you think is gonna happen.

The hard, cold reality of trading is that every trade has an uncertain outcome.

Cut your losses. Cut your losses. And cut your losses. Then maybe you have a chance.

The consistency you seek is in your mind, not in the markets.

If you can’t take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.

If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

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