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“A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.” quote by Jesse Lauriston Livermore — Download Open image

“A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.”

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was…

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Disregarding the big swing and trying to jump in and out was fatal to me. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations. In a bull…

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Money is made by sitting, not trading.

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My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

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The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.

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Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.

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When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.

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I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than…

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To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.

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It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of…

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A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as he figured it must do. That is why so many men in Wall Street, who are not at all in the sucker class, not even in the third grade, nevertheless lose money. The market does not beat them.…

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