Trading Maxims/Quotes

Ben Warwick [interesting name]interview,Active Trading Mag, 2/2002..........................''For short term traders the most important thing to know -that large price changes tend to reverse,small price changes tend to trend''.............................................[Personal,STOCK Traders Almanac helps define ''large'',small''and Ben warwick is carefully trading in this war,beating SPY,even with 4.88%loss in one trade................................:cool:
 
Personality test,thru writer Florence Littauer,last 8 pages'melancholy personality.......................''likes charts ,graphs figures, lists.''.............Thru book How to Get Along with Difficult People.........................She nicknames the melancholy ''the thinker'':)
 
"When actions are directly related to the problem of life and death, they (recollection and expectation) must be given up so thay they will not interfere with the fluidity of mentation and the lightning rapidity of action" D. T. Suzuki
 
"Success in kyudo (the WAY of the bow) does not mean hitting the target. Success, if that us the correct word, is the firing of the bow while being in the desired frame of mind. This state is one in which the archer is not driven by wish to succeed. His mind should be empty of intention and filled with pure awareness of the present moment"

Paul Crompton
 
"Year after year I practiced; On March 30, 1880, I reached the state of no-enemy. I cannot descibe my joy at that time.... I was 45 years old. As I recalled my previous notions of skillfulness and ineptness, fighting and no fighting, I realized that these dichotomies have nothing to do with the opponent; all these things are creations of ones mind. If there is self, there is an enemy; if there is no self there is no enemy" Stevens
 
"Adversity introduces a man to himself." — Anonymous

"The gem cannot be polished without friction." — Chinese proverb

"The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it." — Gerard Groote

"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do." — Bruce Crampton
 
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." The old wiseman from the movie Wall Street
 
"The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own." Gordon Gecko -- Wall Street
 
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