Monday, November 29, 2010

Trading Tit-Bits...

A man may beat a stock or a group at a certain time, but no man living can beat the stock market

! A man may make money out of individual deals in cotton or grain, but no man can beat the cotton market or the grain market. It’s like the track. A man may beat a horse race, but he cannot beat horse racing. —–REMINISCENCES OF A STOCK OPERATOR by Edwin LeFevre

But my greatest discovery was that a man must study general conditions, to size them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities. In short, I had learned that I had to work for my money. I was no longer betting blindly or concerned with mastering the technic of the game, but with earning my successes by hard study and clear thinking.—-REMINISCENCES OF A STOCK OPERATOR by Edwin LeFevre

If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn’t be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It’s the guessing that develops a man’s brain power. Just consider what you have to do to guess right. –REMINISCENCES OF A STOCK OPERATOR by Edwin LeFevre

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