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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.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.
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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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Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad.
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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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Money is made by sitting, not trading.
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There is only one side to the stock market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side
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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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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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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.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Never buy at the bottom, and always sell too soon.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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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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.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
No one ever went broke by taking a profit.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.
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When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.
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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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Most people, whether bull or bear, when they are right, are right for the wrong reason, in my opinion.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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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