Trading Quotable Quotes: Jesse Livermore On Learning To Trade Right
"It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right."
~Jesse Livermore
"It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right."
~Jesse Livermore
"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."
~Jesse Livermore
"Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start."
~Jesse Livermore
"When I buy stocks for a rise I like to pay top prices and when I sell I must sell low or not at all."
~Jesse Livermore
"From my point of view, the investors are the big gamblers. They make a bet, stay with it, and if all goes wrong, they lose it all."
~Jesse Livermore
"The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight."
~Jesse Livermore
"It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes."
~Jesse Livermore
"I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up."
~Jesse Livermore