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It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.
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I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.
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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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No one ever went broke by taking a profit.
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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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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 took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.
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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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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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There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.
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Money is made by sitting, not trading.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.
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Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.
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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
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It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.
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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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