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Stock Trading Tips and Comments
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Remember that stocks are never too high for you to begin buying or too low to begin
selling. But after the initial transaction, don't make a second unless the first
shows you a profit.
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If a stock doesn't act right don't touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely
what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis.
No prognosis, no profit.
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Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit
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The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that
people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have past.
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Don't argue with the tape. Do not seek to lure the profit back. Quit while the quitting
is good--and cheap.
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Never buy a stock because it has had a big decline from its previous high.
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There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear
side but the right side.
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Never act on tips.
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The speculator's chief enemies are always boring from within. It is inseparable
from human nature to hope and to fear. In speculation when the market goes against
you hope that every day will be the last day--and you lose more than you should
had you not listened to hope--to the same pioneers, big and little. And when the
market goes your way you become fearful that the next day will take away your profit,
and you get out--too soon. Fear keeps you from making as much money as you ought
to. The successful trader has to fight these two deep-seated instincts. He has to
reverse what you might call his natural impulses. Instead of hoping he must fear;
instead of fearing he must hope. he must fear that his losses may develop into a
much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a bigger profit. It is absolutely
wrong to gamble in stocks the way the average man does.
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A man must believe in himself and his judgment if he expects to make a living at
this game.
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