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Bernard Baruch's Ten Rules.

  
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   1. Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full-time job. 

2. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters, of anyone, bringing gifts of ‘insider’ information or ‘tips.’ 

3. Before you buy a security, find out everything you can about the company, its management and competitors, its earnings and possibilities for growth. 

4. Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can’t be done – except by liars. 

5. Learn how to take your losses quickly and cleanly. Don’t expect to be right all the time. If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible.

 6. Don’t buy too many different securities. Better have only a few investments which can be watched.

7. Make a periodic reappraisal of all your investments to see whether changing developments have altered their prospects.

 

8. Study your tax position to know when you can sell to greatest advantage. 

9. Always keep a good part of your capital in a cash reserve. 

10. Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best. 

WISDOM FROM BERNARD BARUCH

  
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From the SAME AS IT EVER WAS file: Bernard Baruch, a colleague and friend of Jesse Livermore’s, who made a fortune shorting the 1929 crash, and then who later advised presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters, listed the following investment rules in his autobiography published in 1958 entitled Baruch: My Own Story.  These rules are still as applicable today.


1.  Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full-time job.
2.  Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters–of anyone–bringing gifts of “inside” information or “tips.”
3.  Before you buy a security, find out everything you can about the company, its management and competitors, its earnings and possibilities for growth.
4.  Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top.  This can’t be done–except by liars.
5.  Learn how to take your losses quickly and cleanly.  Don’t expect to be right all the time.  If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible.
6.  Don’t buy too many different securities.  Better have only a few investments which can be watched.
7.  Make a periodic reappraisal of all your investments to see whether changing developments have altered their prospects.
8.  Study your tax position to know when you can sell to greatest advantage.
9.  Always keep a good part of your capital in a cash reserve.  Never invest all your funds.
10.  Don’t try to be a jack of all investments.  Stick to the field you know best.

Bernard Baruch: 10 Rules of Investing

  
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“Being so skeptical about the usefulness of advice, I have been reluctant to lay down any ‘rules’ or guidelines on how to invest or speculate wisely. Still, there are a number of things I have learned from my own experience which might be worth listing for those who are able to muster the necessary self-discipline:

 
1. Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full-time job.
2. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters — of anyone — bringing gifts of “inside” information or “tips.”
3. Before you buy a security, find out everything you can about the company, its management and competitors, its earnings and possibilities for growth.
4. Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can’t be done — except by liars.
5. Learn how to take your losses quickly and cleanly. Don’t expect to be right all the time. If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible.
6. Don’t buy too many different securities. Better have only a few investments which can be watched.
7. Make a periodic reappraisal of all your investments to see whether changing developments have altered their prospects.
8. Study your tax position to know when you can sell to greatest advantage.
9. Always keep a good part of your capital in a cash reserve. Never invest all your funds.
10. Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

Did You Know

  
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Know that the market never lies.I have met so many liars in the stock market business over the past 15 years. I think that many of them actually believe what they are saying but, the truth is, people’s judgment is clouded by greed.The stock market is a giant polling mechanism allowing people to cast their opinion with their money. If you think the stock market is going up, you buy. If you are right, you make money. It is a simple and powerful machine that determines value and, since no one wants to lose money, it is very efficient at telling the truth.The truth may change from one moment to the next but one thing will not change. Arguing against the market is a fast way to lose money.

Trading Wisdom Not Heard Often

  
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  • Buy from the scared, sell to the greedy.
  • Buy their pain, not their gain.
  • Successful traders are quick to change their minds and have little pride of opinion.
  • I made my money because I always got out too soon. (Bernard Baruch)
  • Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars. (Bernard Baruch)
  • Throughout all my years of investing I’ve found that the big money was never made in the buying or the selling. The big money was made in the waiting. (Jesse Livermore)
  • The faster a stock has climbed, the quicker it will fall.
  • The more certain the crowd is, the surer it is to be wrong. (Menschel)
  • Bear markets begin in good times. Bull markets begin in bad times
  • Never confuse genius with a bull market.
  • Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit

You might be a bad trader if……….

  
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There are young people in the market that are really bad traders and there is also old traders that are very good, but there are no old bad traders in the market because they went broke and gave up a long time ago.

You might be a bad trader if……….

…your primary method is to try to call tops and pick bottoms.

“Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.”  -Bernard Baruch

 You might be a bad trader if……….

…instead of benefiting from the 200 point run in Apple this year you actually lost money by fighting the trend.

“Cardinal Rule #1 is to sell short only during what you believe is a developing bear market, not a bull market.” -William O’Neil (more…)

11 Trading Thoughts

  
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  • Buy from the scared, sell to the greedy.
  • Buy their pain, not their gain.
  • Successful traders are quick to change their minds and have little pride of opinion.
  • I made my money because I always got out too soon. (Bernard Baruch)
  • Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars. (Bernard Baruch)
  • Throughout all my years of investing I’ve found that the big money was never made in the buying or the selling. The big money was made in the waiting. (Jesse Livermore)
  • The faster a stock has climbed, the quicker it will fall.
  • The more certain the crowd is, the surer it is to be wrong. (Menschel)
  • Bear markets begin in good times. Bull markets begin in bad times
  • Never confuse genius with a bull market.
  • Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit

Trading Wisdom

  
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  • Buy from the scared, sell to the greedy.
  • Buy their pain, not their gain.
  • Successful traders are quick to change their minds and have little pride of opinion.
  • I made my money because I always got out too soon. (Bernard Baruch)
  • Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars. (Bernard Baruch)
  • Throughout all my years of investing I’ve found that the big money was never made in the buying or the selling. The big money was made in the waiting. (Jesse Livermore)
  • The faster a stock has climbed, the quicker it will fall.
  • The more certain the crowd is, the surer it is to be wrong. (Menschel)
  • Bear markets begin in good times. Bull markets begin in bad times
  • Never confuse genius with a bull market.
  • Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit

Bernard Baruch:Trading Legend

  
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Baruch was born in 1870 in South Carolina. He was a great student of finance, reading everything he could find about the subject, always trying to learn more. Baruch found out the education process takes time, especially when it comes to trading the stock market.

Early on, Baruch made many of the same mistakes that most traders make. Ultimately, after much dedication to learning proper trading principles, he amassed a huge fortune in the markets. Because of his intellectual reputation, he even held appointive positions in four presidential administrations, and served as an advisor to six different presidents.

In his book titled “My Own Story”, Baruch gives us some rules or guidelines on how to invest or speculate wisely.

1. Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full-time job.

2. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters-of anyone-bringing gifts of “inside” information or “tips”.

3. Before you buy a security, find out everything you can about the company, its management and competitors, its earnings and possibilities for growth.

4. Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can’t be done-except by liars.

5. Learn how to take your losses quickly and cleanly. Don’t expect to be right all the time. If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible.

6. Don’t buy too many different securities. Better to have only a few investments which can be watched.

7. Make a periodic reappraisal of all your investments to see whether changing developments have altered their prospects.

8. Study your tax position to know when you can sell to greatest advantage.

9. Always keep a good part of your capital in a cash reserve. Never invest all your funds.

10. Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

Trading Wisdom Not Heard Often

  
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  • Buy from the scared, sell to the greedy.
  • Buy their pain, not their gain.
  • Successful traders are quick to change their minds and have little pride of opinion.
  • I made my money because I always got out too soon. (Bernard Baruch)
  • Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars. (Bernard Baruch)
  • Throughout all my years of investing I’ve found that the big money was never made in the buying or the selling. The big money was made in the waiting. (Jesse Livermore)
  • The faster a stock has climbed, the quicker it will fall.
  • The more certain the crowd is, the surer it is to be wrong. (Menschel)
  • Bear markets begin in good times. Bull markets begin in bad times
  • Never confuse genius with a bull market.
  • Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit
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