Quote #9

'When I buy stocks for a rise I like to pay top prices and when I sell I must sell low or not at all.'

More from Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  1. 'When your security is acting right, you can safely add to your line from then forward!'
  2. 'When this happens I sell the stock short that is, technically. In other words, I sell more stock than I actually hold.'
  3. 'Obviously the thing to do was to be bullish in a bull market and bearish in a bear market.'
  4. 'Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right fro…
  5. 'He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading t…
  6. 'It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.'
  7. 'The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.'
  8. 'If my stock does not act as I anticipated, I immediately determine that the time is not yet ripe - so I close out my commitment.'

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