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Jesse Livermore Quotes
All through time, people have basically acted and reacted the same way in the market as a result of: greed, fear, ignorance, and hope. That is why the numerical (technical) formations and patterns recur on a constant basis.
The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
Don’t take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don’t be an impatient trader.
It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.
Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the foundation for your next venture. You will reap benefits from their mistakes.
When a margin call reaches you, close your account. Never meet a margin call.
You are on the wrong side of a market. Why send good money after bad? Keep that good money for another day.
Successful traders always follow the line of least resistance. Follow the trend. The trend is your friend.
A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong opinions often are.
I absolutely believe that price movement patterns are being repeated. They are recurring patterns that appear over and over, with slight variations. This is because markets are driven by humans and human nature never changes.
When you make a trade, you should have a clear target where to sell if the market moves against you. And you must obey your rules! Never sustain a loss of more than 10% of your capital. Losses are twice as expensive to make up. I always established a stop before making a trade.
In a narrow market, when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move in a narrow range, there is no sense in trying to anticipate what next big movement is going to be – up or down.
Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.
A man may beat a stock or group at a certain time, but no man living can beat the stock market.
A man must know himself thoroughly if he is going to make a good job out of trading in the speculative markets.
I learned that the weaknesses to which a speculator is prone are almost numberless.
Among the hazards of speculation the happening of the unexpected – I might even say of the unexpectable – ranks high.
Observation, experience, memory and mathematics – these are what the successful trader must depend on.
There is nothing new in Wall Street.
There can’t be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.
Of course there is always a reason for fluctuations, but what the tape does not concern itself with the why and wherefore. It doesn’t go into explanations.
The reason for what a certain stock does today may not be known for two or three days, or weeks, or months. But what the dickens does that matter? Your business with the tape is now – not tomorrow.
The reason can wait. But you must act instantly or be left.
There is a time for all things, but I didn’t know it.
And that is precisely what beats so many men on Wall Street who are very far from being in the main sucker class.
There is the plain fool, who does the wrong thing at all times everywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool, who thinks he must trade all the time.
No man can always have adequate reasons for buying and selling stocks daily – or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.
The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.
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