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He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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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.
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If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.
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I can't sleep answered the nervous one. Why not? asked the friend. I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do? Sell down to the sleeping point, answered the friend.
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It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.
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Disregarding the big swing and trying to jump in and out was fatal to me. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations. In a bull market your game is to buy and hold until you believe that the bull market is near its end. To do this you must study general conditions and not tips or special factors affecting individual stocks.
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To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.
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On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any. If they asked him point-blank for his opinion about the wisdom of their commitments he used a favorite race-track maxim of his: You can't tell till you bet.
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Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.
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Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.
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It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
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I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and my own thinking. But I can tell you that after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies - the strongest and truest in the world: underlying conditions. They were helping me with all their might.
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There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Money is made by sitting, not trading.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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.
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A man must believe in himself and his judgement if he expects to make a living at this game. That is why I don't believe in tips.
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A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.
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No one ever went broke by taking a profit.
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Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.
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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.
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