Top Trading Quotes

"I think to be in the upper echelon of successful traders requires an innate skill, a gift. It`s just like being a great violinist. But to be a competent trader and make money is a skill you can learn". - Michael Marcus, Trader
 

"Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others." - John Maynard Keynes
 

"No profession requires more hard work, intelligence, patience, and mental discipline than successful speculation." - Robert Rhea
 

"In bear markets, stocks usually open strong and close weak. In bull markets, they tend to open weak and close strong." - William J. O'Neill
 

"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all." - J. Nehru

"You don`t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" - Bob Dylan
 

"The market does not know if you are long or short and could not care less. You are the only one emotionally involved with your position. The market is just reacting to supply and demand and if you are cheering it one way, there is always somebody else cheering it just as hard that it will go the other way" - Marty Schwartz, Pit Bull
 

"More men have become great through practice than by nature." - Democritus

"Volatility is greatest at turning points, diminishing as a new trend becomes established." - George Soros
 

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one." - Mark Twain

"Panics do not destroy capital—they merely reveal the extent to which it has previously been destroyed by its betrayal in hopelessly unproductive works." – John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

“Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing extraordinary or superhuman in any one of those actions; only the fact that they are done consistently and correctly, and all together, produce excellence.” - Daniel F. Chambliss, Professor of Sociology

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." 

- Winston Churchill

"Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach." - Michael Marcus
 

"The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary." - Alexander Elder
 

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." 

- Japanese proverb
 

"A great trader is like a great athlete . You have to have natural skills, but you have to train yourself how to use them." - Marty Schwartz, Pit Bull
 

"One characteristic I've found among successful traders is that they function effectively when they're not trading. When markets become very quiet and range bound, they occupy themselves with a variety of activities, from sharing ideas with peers to conducting research. Traders who do not tolerate inactivity well inevitably feel the need to trade, often when there is no objective edge present. For them, losing money is less onerous than experiencing boredom." - in Trader Feed
 

"To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information flow, the ability to correct your habits in terms of the market's characteristics, and being able to take risks, cut losses, expand your information network, ferret out ideas, and take recommendations." - Trading to Win, Ari Kiev

Two rules for investing/trading:

Rule number one : most things will prove to be cyclical

Rule number two : some of the greatest opportunities for gain and loss come when other people forget rule number one - Howard Marks

"Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell. If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd." - Sir John Templeton
 

"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem." - Bill Vaughan

"A lot of people get so enmeshed in the markets that they lose their perspective. Working longer does not necessarily equate with working smarter. In fact, sometimes is the other way around." - Martin Schwartz, in Pit Bull
 

"The markets are the same now as they were five or ten years ago because they keep changing-just like they did then.” - Ed Seykota
 

“I have been trading for decades and I am still standing. I have seen a lot of traders come and go. They have a system or a program that works in some specific environments and fails in others. In contrast, my strategy is dynamic and ever evolving. I constantly learn and change.” - Thomas Busby in Trade To Win
 

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” - Salvador Dalí
 

"The ability to foresee that some things cannot be foreseen is a very important quality". – Rousseau

"A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains" - Dutch Proverb

"Investing is no different. It is a game of repetition where hundreds of small actions result in one larger result. But most importantly, it is a game of risk management. It is not the home run hitter who wins in the long-run. Rather, it is that strategist who devises the best long-term plan who ultimately wins. While hitting home runs is sexy it is rarely a recipe for success in the investment world. Aim high, but play small. Over time, good risk management and patience wins. Power is no substitute for precision and patience. The same is true in the world of investing." - in The Prag Cap
 

"The game taught me the game. And it didn’t spare me rod while teaching." - Jesse Livermore