The Best Trading Proverbs

[viruscore1]

Monkeys are better stock pickers than professionals

 

[dealmaker]

“Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who’ve been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.” – Peter Lynch

 

[vanzandt]

“Investing in stocks is an art, not a science,

I thought that quote was attributable to Lawrence Lugar.
Fooled again.

 

[dealmaker]

"Market is fluid and manipulated but is tradable".
-Old Wall St saying

"Tape exists without the chart, chart can't exist without the tape"
-Old Wall St saying

 

[dealmaker]

"The difference between successful and unsuccessful trader is not IQ, it's EQ IE the ones who did not let ego get in their way."
- Victor Sperandeo

 

[comagnum]

Peter Lynch kept it real simple - he picked stocks of companies who products he used & liked & unlike many of his peers he cut the losers. It was well known that his Magellan fund was so big their purchasing of more stock shares was always driving the fund price up. Not sure if that is really an art - maybe a good example of KISS. He taught the average investor how it's done - that my explain why so many got into Netflix early on and hung on to it.

 

[dealmaker]

"An investor looks for safety, for permanence of the interest return on the capital he invests. The speculator looks for quick profit."

-Jesse Lauriston Livermore

 

[murray t turtle]

WE bought it @ $6.00 + sold @ $7.25......[silver, about the time the Hunts were buying]- Mark Ritchie, founding partner, Chicago Research & Trading

 

[viruscore1]

The futures don't look like they use too..

 

[viruscore1]