d excitement, u might b better off riding a roller coaster r taking up hang gliding. If u r drawn 2 trading because u think it is an easy way to make a lot of money, the markets r likely to disabuse u of that assumption.
personality.”
-Randy McKay
Incidentally, if you don’t know what your edge is, you don’t have one.
If a position is too large you will be prone to exit good trades on inconsequential corrections because fear will dominate the decision process.
plan simply requires combining a personal trading method with specific money management
& trade entry rules.
a bad signal from the system you bought, you are responsible because you made the decision to
listen and act.
light. If you combine two traders, you will get the worst of each.”
- Michael Marcus.
-Linda Raschke
-Linda Raschke
-Jesse Livermore.
-Mark Weinstein
that is completely wrongheaded is: You can’t go broke taking profits. That’s precisely how many
traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by
taking small profits.”
-Bill Eckhardt
on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.”
-Stanley Druckenmiller
One reason why so many
people try to pick tops and bottoms is that they want to prove to the world how smart they are.
-Eckhardt
-Jeff Yass
trade into a large loss while hoping for the best.
at a loss if market behavior points to such a course of action.
for a reaction that will allow for a better entry in a missed trade.
wins.”
-Larry Hite.