Everything You Need to Know to Invest in the Stock Market

May 5, 2009

You can’t go broke by taking profits.
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent — John Maynard Keynes
If you are going to panic, panic early.
Sell down to the sleeping point.
Buy when there’s blood in the streets; sell to the sound of trumpets. (variation of buy low, sell high).
A bullish market is born amid pessimism, grows up under skepticism, matures with optimism and dies with euphoria.
The investors you meet on the way up, you’ll meet on the way down.
Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.
There’s always a bull market someplace.
Don’t fight the Fed.
Don’t fight the tape
The trend is your friend.
The market is always with us.
Trends test the line successfully, but eventually they breakthrough.
A stock and a company are not always the same thing.
Money follows earnings.
The market indices have correctly predicted nine of the last four recessions.
When volatility turns higher, it usually does so on the downside.
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything. — Ben Graham
It is fortunate for Wall Street as an institution, that a small minority of people can trade successfully, and that many others think they can. — Ben Graham
Investigate, then invest.
Let your winners ride, but cut your losers short.
After a sharp fall, money returns to its rightful owners.
In the stock market, as in warfare, it is well to keep in mind the difference between strategy and tactics.
The first loss is the best.
As January goes, so goes the year.
Sell in May then go away.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. — Benjamin Franklin
Inevitably, compression gives way to dispersion.
Nothing has a straight line up or down.
Never meet a margin call.
When you rob a whorehouse, take the piano player, too, because no one is entirely innocent.

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