Arguing Quote by Jesse Lauriston Livermore

I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they…

— James Surowiecki

It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right

— Ed Seykota

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

— Jim Rogers

To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!

— Martin Zweig

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

— Joan Robinson

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much.

— Paul Krugman

Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But…

— Benjamin Graham

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

— John Stossel

Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these…

— William O'Neil

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

— George Soros

Markets are conversations.

— Adam Levine