We have complied a huge list of 116 of the best trading quotes for your enjoyment. We all know that some are just bat shit crazy but if they sound good, some people will preach them like they are gospel. Some will be very dependent on how you trade. For example, “always trade with the trend”. Many professional traders make a killing trading opposite “the trend” and then it also depends how to define a trend in the first place.
If you have any more great quotes please share them with us below.
- “Only show your wife your losses.”
- “Sell half and reassess.”
- “Don’t Lose Your Dough.”
- “Strong views, loosely held.”
- “You don’t need to know what is going to happen next.” -Mark Douglas
- “There is nothing new on Wall Street. What has happened in the past will happen again, and again, and again. This is because human nature does not change, and it is human emotion…that always gets in the way of human intelligence. Of this I am sure.” – Jesse Livermore
- “Never short anything you would be too scared to ski down.”
- “Doesn’t matter if you are right or wrong! What matters is how much you lost when you were wrong and how much you made when you were right.” – Richard Dennis
- “When it’s raining gold, put out a bucket not a thimble.”
- “The public’s out there throwing darts at a board, sport. I don’t throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things.”
- “Every battle is won before it’s ever fought. Think about it.” – Gordon Gekko
- “We make our money in, not by doing something, but by doing the right things. Sometimes the right thing is doing nothing.”
- “How an asset loses 90%. First it loses 80%, and then it loses 50%.”
- “If you are in Doubt, better get out.”
- “Markets are nothing but systematic transfer of money from undisciplined trader to disciplined trader.”
- “Capitalism without bankruptcy it’s like Catholicism without hell.”
- “Markets are never wrong. Opinions are.”
- “Those who don’t use stop-loss, eventually stop trading.” – Mark Minervini
- “Trade what you see not what you think.”
- “I look at 100 deals a day, I choose one.”
- “It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. And when you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win.”
- “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
- “The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.” – Alexander Elder
- “There are only two emotions in the market – greed and fear. And at any one time, there is usually an abundance of either one.”
- “There are old traders and there are bold traders but there are few old, bold traders.”
- “Trading is 10 percent buying, 10 percent selling and 80 percent waiting.”
- “Consistency is the NAME , Compounding is the GAME.”
- “I have a view, till I get a new.”
- “Learn to trade first, earn later.”
- “Don’t fight the Fed.”
- “The market doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
- “Rule #1: don’t lose money. Rule #2: don’t forget rule number 1.”
- “Get out when you can-not when you have too.”
- “The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.”
- “You can’t make a baby in 1 month by getting 9 women pregnant.”
- “Buy high sell higher.”
- “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”
- “If you don’t bet, you can’t win. If you lose all your chips, you can’t bet.” – Larry Hite
- “Everybody gets what they want out of the market.” – Ed Seykota
- “Think twice, trade once.”
- “All the money is made on the entry, not the exit.”
- “Liquidity is only there when you don’t need it.”
- “I made all my money by selling to soon.”
- “Certainty is just the inability to imagine the alternative.”
- “If stock markets experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.”
- “Trade in the market. Don’t let market to trade you.”
- “Only monkey pick bottom.”
- “Bulls make money, bears make money. pigs get slaughtered.”
- “Your broker will make you broker.”
- “Rome was not built in a day but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a single day.”
- “No one ever went broke taking profits.”
- “Trade in the direction of the trend.”
- “When uncertain, trade half.”
- “Know what to trade. Know when to trade. Know how to trade.”
- “A stock is never so low that it can’t go lower, Nor so high it can’t go higher.”
- “You can always buy it back.”
- “Turn the machines back on.”
- “If we’re all thinking the same, are we really thinking?”
- “Money never sleeps.”
- “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee
- “A goal without a plan is a wish.” – Brett Steenbarger
- “Buy rising stocks and sell falling stocks.” – Jessie Livermore
- “Adding to a losing position is one of the best ways that exists to end your trading career.”
- “No risk is also a risk.”
- “Trade what you see, not what you think.”
- “Many hide from losses, little do they know , losses are the key to changing and becoming aware of what’s needed to be done to improve.”
- “No Riskit, No Biscuit.”
- “The four most expensive words in the English language are”, “This time it’s different”.
- “Don’t confuse brains for a bull market.”
- “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.”
- “Buy the rumor; sell the news.”
- “If you don’t know what you should do, don’t do anything.”
- “The market is determined to help the most people lost the most money most of the time.”
- “Whether the lion or the gazelle, every day you have to run.”
- “Sell in May and go fishing.”
- “Small losses are part of the game, Big losses take you outta the game.”
- “Risk it all in one trade. Go big or go home.”
- “Life is a bull market.”
- “Peacock today, feather duster tomorrow.”
- “Time in the market is more important than timing the market.”
- “Impatience traders pay patient traders.”
- “Always leave a profit for the next person.”
- “The trend is your friend.”
- “Better to wish that you were in the trade, rather than wishing you were out of the trade.”
- “Buy the stocks whose business you understand.”
- “The market is always right.”
- “FEAR your losses will get much bigger, HOPE your profits will get much bigger. Set stops appropriately.”
- “Plan your trade & trade your plan.”
- “Stay humble, or the market will make you humble.”
- ”For I see speculation and life as so intimately bound together that not to speculate means not to exist.” – Jake Bernstein
- “Scared money don’t make money.”
- “Don’t lose money.”
- “HODL it.” (hold on for dear life).
- “If you can’t afford to lose it, don’t trade it.”
- “Many investors move from stock to stock or from mutual fund to mutual fund. As if they were selecting and discarding cards in a game of rummy. Investors accomplish nothing from this behavior except to incur transaction costs and to pay more in taxes.”
- “Anytime you can take a small loss, do it, and you will always be at the Chicago Board of Trade.” – Mark Spitznagel
- “In my experience there is no such thing as luck.”
- “You gotta take their money before they take yours.”
- “It’s better to lose correctly than to win incorrectly.“
- “Markets only go up.”
- “Don’t get sore, buy more.”
- “You can’t lose what you don’t put in the middle.”
- “Trend is your friend until the end when it bends.”
- “See profit, take profit.”
- “A small profit is better than a big loss.”
- “BTFD” (buy the fucking dump).
- “I don’t work for money. Money works for me.”
- “Greed for lack of a better word, is good”
- “The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.” – Stanley Druckenmiller
- “You’ve got to know your limitations.”
- “Buying equities in a bear market is like catching a falling knife.”
- “Hope rhymes with dope.”
- “The history repeats itself.”
- “The chart never lies.”
- “When the cops raid the brothel everybody is arrested even the piano player.”
- “As long as price keeps changing, there will always be another opportunity.”
Which ones was your favorite?