- Buying a weak stock is like betting on a slow horse. It is retarded.
- Stocks are only cheap if they are going higher after you buy them.
- Never trust a person more than the market. People lie, the market does not.
- Controlling losers is a must; let your winners run out of control.
- Simplicity in trading demonstrates wisdom. Complexity is the sign of inexperience.
- Have loyalty to your family, your dog, your team. Have no loyalty to your stocks.
- Emotional traders want to give the disciplined their money.
- Trends have counter trends to shake the weak hands out of the market.
- The market is usually efficient and can not be beat. Exploit inefficiencies.
- To beat the market, you must have an edge.
- Being wrong is a necessary part of trading profitably. Admit when you are wrong.
- If you do what everyone is doing you will be average, so goes the definition.
- Information is only valuable if no one knows about it.
- Lower your risk till you sleep like a baby.
- There is always a reason why stocks go up or down, we usually only learn the reason when it is too late.
- Trades that make a lot of intellectual sense are likely to be losers.
- You do not have to be right more than you are wrong to make money in the market.
- Don’t worry about the trades that you miss, there will always be another.
- Fear is more powerful than greed and so down trends are sharper than up trends.
- Analyze the people, not the stock.
- Trading is a dictators game; you can not trade by committee.
- The best traders are the ones who do not care about the money.
- Do not think you are smarter than the market, you are not.
- For most traders, profits are short term loans from the market.
- The stock market can not be predicted, we can only play the probabilities.
- The farther price is from a linear trend, the more likely it is to correct.
- Learn from your losses, you paid for them.
- The market is cruel, it gives the test first and the lesson afterward.
- Trading is simple but it is not easy.
- The easiest time to make money is when there is a trend.