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Goodfellas and trading

Karen Hill: “God forbid, what would happen if you had to go to prison? Mickey said that Jeannie’s husband…”

Henry Hill: “Do you know why Jeannie’s husband went to the can? Because he wanted to get away from her.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don’t have things organized.”

This conversation from the Goodfellas film reminds me of Ed Seykota’s famous saying, that ‘Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the stock market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money’. I don’t believe in the literal interpretation of Seykota’s comment but I find the quote serves as a reminder to question the motives behind my trades.