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“If you don’t know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out.” George Goodman

“It never was my thinking that made big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!” Jesse Livermore

“You learn to distinguish the good traders from the bad, the successful techniques from the unsuccessful, and the good habits from the faulty. You also learn to distinguish the lover from the fighter, the winners from the losers, the serious from the frivolous, the cerebral from the superficial, and the friend from the foe. But above all, you learn that … Read More

“The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs…When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.” Stanley Druckenmiller

“One common adage…that is completely wrongheaded is: You can’t go broke taking profits. That’s precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.” William Eckhardt

  “The elements of good trading are: (1) cutting losses, (2) cutting losses, and (3) cutting losses. If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance.” Ed Seykota

“This (Trading) is not a job where you get paid by the hour. You get paid for doing the right thing.” Vadym Graifer & Christopher Schumacher, Techniques of Tape Reading

“When reward is at its pinnacle, risk is near at hand.” Jack Bogle