Quotes About Investing

Initially the 30-week MA loses its downside slope and starts to flatten out. In addition, intermittent rallies and declines will toss the stock above and below the MA. During this stage, there will usually be several swings between support at the bottom of the trading range and resistance at the top of the range. This basing action can go on for months or, in some cases, years.

The initial buy-stop should have been placed right above the prior rally high

Volume is usually heavy in Stage 3 and the moves are sharp and choppy.

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The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

it allows stock prices to reflect a full range of views.

The mistake increased Bear's shareholders' bargaining power.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.

But investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers.

invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.3

Buy cheap and sell dear.

On the other hand, investing is a unique kind of casino—one where you cannot lose in the end, so long as you play only by the rules that put the odds squarely in your favor.

The intelligent investor realizes that stocks become more risky, not less, as their prices rise—and less risky, not more, as their prices fall. The intelligent investor dreads a bull market, since it makes stocks more costly to buy. And conversely (so long as you keep enough cash on hand to meet your spending needs), you should welcome a bear market, since it puts stocks back on sale. 8

while enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster.

People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

I think, from a woman's perspective, that my interest as an investor and the way that I relate to entrepreneurs is a little bit different.

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.