Quotes About Investing

many people become long-term investors after they lose money, postponing

many people become long-term investors after they lose money, postponing their decision to sell as part of their denial.

the last fifty years, the ten most extreme days in the financial markets represent half the returns. Ten days in fifty years. Meanwhile, we are mired in chitchat.

emotions depended on how frequently he checked his portfolio.

that meant that 90 percent of all short option positions make money. If I want to use options to be bearish, I sell calls.

George Soros, a complex man who thrived on rare events

I love taking small losses,"he says. "I just need my winners to be large.

He did better emotionally with his own portfolio than with those of clients, since he was not obligated to monitor it continuously.

In the last fifty years, the ten most extreme days in the financial markets represent half the returns.

This is called a stop loss, a predetermined exit point, a protection from the black swan.

Regression to the mean, the tendency for behavior to move toward "normal" or average, is a persistently powerful phenomenon in physics and sociology and investing.) Yes, several funds beat the market in any particular year and some in any decade, but scrutiny of the long-term records reveals that very few funds beat the market averages over the long haul—and nobody has yet figured out how to tell in advance which funds will do it. The

Since most investment managers will not beat the market, investors should at least consider investing in "index funds" that replicate the market and so never get beaten by the market. Indexing may not be fun or exciting, but it works. The data from the performance measurement firms show that index funds have outperformed most investment managers over long periods of time. For

If investing is all about creativity and making unusual, unconventional, and even unpopular decisions, great investment decisions are best made by individuals taking direct responsibility for the results of their own acts.

The overwhelmingly large number of investors should seek membership in the passive management club. This group, instead of scratching for a small edge in today's extraordinarily efficient markets, wisely accepts what the markets deliver. Charley makes a compelling case for the market-matching strategy of investing in index funds, touting their simplicity, transparency, low cost, tax efficiency, and superior returns. Winning

Tax-efficient index funds garner a substantial edge over tax-inefficient actively managed mutual funds.

The core principles of successful investing never change—and never will. In fact, when short-term data appear to be most challenging to core principles is exactly when those principles are most important and most needed. Sure the companies, markets, and economies come and go, but the core principles remain the same.

A Random Walk Down Wall Street.

Your condo loan might be packaged with 999 other mortgages and sold off to an investor who wanted to receive the steady stream of income as those mortgages were (hopefully) paid off.

I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

Joe Granville, a well-known technician who created the popular On-Balance Volume indicator, said, "Volume precedes price.