Trading Quotes

• I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance.

  

  Hanley Ramirez
  • Giving
  • Chance
  • Grateful

• You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.

  

  Josh Brolin
  • Revenge
  • Wins
  • Losses

• When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

  

  Mike Johanns
  • Borders
  • Partners
  • Beef

• After all, China is our largest trading partner. As I said, country-wise, Russia trades the most with China. That is my first point.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Wise
  • Trade

• The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • inspirational
  • Cutting
  • Break

• The elements of good trading are: 1, cutting losses. 2, cutting losses. And 3, cutting losses. If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Chance
  • Cutting
  • Elements

• It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

  

  William Eckhardt
  • Should
  • Easier
  • Tendencies

• Mexico is an important trading partner, it's the number one trading partner for the state of Texas. We have had dealings with them, shared a border with them. We have had our challenges, but at the end of the day we want a good relationship with Mexico.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Important
  • Challenges
  • Borders

• If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Trading

• When you're in a losing streak, your ability to properly assimilate and analyze information starts to become distorted because of the impairment of the confidence factor, which is a by-product of a losing streak. You have to work very hard to restore that confidence, and cutting back trading size helps achieve that goal.

  

  Bill Lipschutz
  • Confidence
  • Goal
  • Information

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Wall

• It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Mind
  • Loss
  • Trade

• Everyone needs different things. That's why trading works.

  

  Wang Yi
  • Work
  • Needs
  • Trading

• People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • People
  • Earth
  • Easy

• 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 the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Reading
  • Individual
  • Trading

• Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Financial
  • Values
  • Economics

• Most traders believe that 'getting into the zone' happens when you have 'a hot streak.' I believe you can create the zone. The zone is a psychological state. It is when you are focused, disciplined, and fully engaged in the process at hand . . . trading in the zone will certainly increase your capacity to perform and succeed.

  

  Ari Kiev
  • Succeed
  • Trading
  • Zone

• I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Europe
  • Currency
  • Trading

• Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

  

  John Sterling
  • Life
  • Trading
  • Wasted

• Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.

  

  Romano Prodi
  • World
  • Political
  • Taken

• Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories.

  

  William T. Vollmann
  • Memories
  • Process
  • Trading

• 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.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Ignorance
  • Trade
  • Easier

• Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.

  

  Steve Burns
  • Patience
  • Battle
  • Trading

• "I can't sleep" answered the nervous one. "Why not?" asked the friend. "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?" "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Thinking
  • Sleep
  • Nervous

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