Quotes About Analysis

internal trend lines are far more useful than conventional trend lines in defining potential support and resistance areas.

I have what I call my Evel Knievel screen. These are companies that are trying to jump the Grand Canyon and probably won't make it. There are only two conditions for the screen. First, the company is trading at more than five times book value. Second, the company is losing money. My job is to figure out which stocks won't make it across the Grand Canyon and then go short those stocks.

You can use charts to give you a plus or minus toward your view, but you can never start with the chart.

In trading, 80 percent of your profits come from 20 percent of your ideas.

The best trades are the ones in which you have all three things going for you: fundamentals, technicals, and market tone.

So you like seeing a high EPS with a low P/E. Yes. That's the best combination. I am sure there is a way of combining the two on a computer and coming up with a very good system.

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose per contract.

Unlike some other gurus, he doesn't believe he is predicting the future; he is simply observing what is happening and making rational bets.

Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.

He's so obsessed with trying to analyze the architecture

We came to the conclusion that they left you here because any decision can be analysed, and that their lack of decision indicated the only thing they wanted us to know, which is that we must know nothing.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

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3. La vera educazione deve essere un'educazione alla critica.

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them. On the other hand, when he is happy, he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyse it, just as if happiness were his right.

La "explicación" mítica que adelantó el presidente sobre la situación de violencia mostró la pobreza analítica de quienes lo asesoraron, el desconocimiento del surgimiento y las transformaciones del campo criminal y particularmente el tráfico de drogas ilegales, y de sus reflexiones sobre el tema al avalarla.

La ciencia no me interesa. Me parece presuntuosa, analítica y superficial. Ignora el sueño, el azar, la risa, el sentimiento y la contradicción, cosas todas que me son preciosas.

Don't ask me my opinions on art, because I don't have any. Aesthetic concerns have played a relatively minor role in my life, and I have to smile when a critic talks, for example, of my "palette". I find it impossible to spend hours in galleries analyzing and gesticulating.

We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions.

computer science is the study of "the phenomena surrounding computers"—all the phenomena,

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.