Trading Maxims/Quotes

[Commisso]

“Trading has taught me different things about myself at different times according to how the situation has gone. It has taught me that I can be very disciplined, that I don’t have to have external constraints imposed on me. It’s taught me that I’m very self-reliant. Often I can put together the jigsaw puzzle, even though some pieces are missing and will have an insight into a trade that other traders don’t perceive. Sometimes I realize I’ve been arrogant in the way I’ve done something... It’s interesting how trading teaches us something about ourselves that we don’t necessarily want to know but the information is always very instructive.”

Soloman Cohen -- Quoted from an interview given in The Tao of Trading by Robert Koppel

 

[Commisso]

“One of the best ways to increase profits is to do goal setting and visualizations in order to align the conscious and subconscious with making profits. I have worked with a number of traders in order to examine their priorities and align their goals. I use a combination of hypnosis, breathing, pacing, visualization, gestalt, massage, and so forth. The traders usually either (1) get much more successful, or (2) realize they didn’t really want to be traders in the first place.”

Ed Seykota -- Market Wizards

 

[Commisso]

"The markets have a way of weeding out the weak hands - it’s the law of the jungle."

Jea Yu

 

[Magna]

Originally posted by nitro
And commisso, cut that crap out of posting seven million Maxims/Quotes.

Originally posted by Commisso
Nitro,
I suppose I am cheating just a lil with the maxims...

Heh, heh

 

[Commisso]

Do people actualy get any use from me posting these things???
I just compile them in a database and i figured i would just cut and paste them here, so are they of any use??? If so just send me pm to let me know and i wll continue

 

[mbt3]

"The eye of the will is impure and makes for distortion.
Only when we want nothing, only when our gaze becomes pure contenplation, does the soul of things..the beauty..open to us.."

Hermann Hesse

mbt3

 

[Commisso]

"Goals and contingencies, as I've said are important. But they exist only in the past and the future, beyond the pale of the sensory realm. Practice, the path of mastery, exists only in the present. You see it, hear it, smell it, feel it. To love the plateau is to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life."

George Leonard -- Mastery

 

[Magna]

Originally posted by Commisso
Do people actualy get any use from me posting these things??? I just compile them in a database and i figured i would just cut and paste them here, so are they of any use???

Commisso,

Please don't misinterpret my previous post. It wasn't to suggest that you stop as I enjoy many of your maxims, but as you said in another post:

Originally posted by Commisso
I have 300 and something post and about 30 actual posts...

It's obvious to me that you have a tremendous amount to offer other than simply copy/pasting from a large quotes database. I look forward to more of your "actual" posts and commentary.

 

[Atlantic]

"There is one important caveat to the notion that we live in a new economy, and that is human psychology...which appears essentially immutable."

Alan Greenspan

 

[wwatson1]

"The management has no stake in the company"

Quote from Micheal Douglas in the film wallstreet.