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For instance, let us say that a new stock has been listed in the last two or three years and its high was 20, or any other figure, and that such a price was made two or three years ago. If something favorable happens in connection with the company, and the stock starts upward, usually it is safe play to buy the minute it touches a brand new high.
Jesse Livermore -
After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
Jesse Livermore
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It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.
Jesse Livermore -
If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.
Jesse Livermore -
There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.
Jesse Livermore -
There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side
Jesse Livermore -
No one ever went broke by taking a profit.
Jesse Livermore -
If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.
Jesse Livermore