Talk:Stock market

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• Trends are highways to develop further ideas on them, whereas hypes are dead-end roads. Only the first player will profit.
  • Michael Hänni, Co-founder of trendguide.com
• Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
  • John Maynard Keynes

• Bane [Baldwin Bane, New York chief of the SEC] was being bedeviled by a promoter who wanted his approval to register stock in a gold mine. Every day, Bane, who smelled a rat, found a reason to turn away the promoter, always demanding more information. One day Bane, opening his mail, mistakenly read a telegram for the promoter from his partner out west. It read, "CANCEL REGISTRATION. HAVE FOUND GOLD."
  • Martin Mayer in his book Wall Street - Men and Money, 1955.
  • See U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• The trend is your friend!
  • Dr. George Lane

• In a bull market the trend of prices, of course, is decidedly and definitely upward. Therefore whenever a stock goes against the general trend you are justified in assuming that there is something wrong with that particular stock.
  • Jesse Lauriston Livermore

• The trend has been established before the news is published, and in bull markets bear items are ignored and bull news exaggerated, and vice versa.
  • Jesse Lauriston Livermore