Better than your neighbor vs. better than yourself

The ultimate goal is not to become better than your neighbor, but to become better than yourself. - Unknown

If we wait for the moment when everything is ready...

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. –  Ivan Turgenev

controlling risk vs. chasing gains

Experienced traders control risk, inexperienced traders chase gains. – Alan Farley

hunting in what was vs. buying what will be

The crowd is bargain hunting in what was; the knowing are buying what will be. – Justin Mamis

Newspaper

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed. – Mark Twain

The real voyage of discovery

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

Panacea for a mismanaged nation

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency ; The second is war.

Both bring temporary prosperity ; both bring a permanent ruin.

Both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. - Ernest Hemingway

Betting on the end of the world

Betting on the end of the world will make you right 1 time in 1000 and on top of that you wont be able to collect. - kknop

Those who sacrifice liberty

Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. – Benjamin Franklin

Borders are paradoxical...

When you think of it, borders are paradoxical. They connect what they aim to divide. - Frank Jacobs of Strange Maps | Big Think

Actual friendship

Actual friendship can mean only the one thing: talking about emotions. - spon

Great minds discuss ideas...

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Missing The Excitement?

There hasn’t been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. – Sid Waddell

Illusions...

Illusions must be experienced by some being, but “being something” is itself an illusory experience. - Raymond Tallis

Believe nothing

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Buddha

What Is A Trading Position?

A position is not an opinion and an opinion is not a position. A position, purely and simply, is a specific market set-up that provides certain risk/reward characteristics. - Peter Brandt, commmodity futures trader

When A Stock Seems A Screaming Buy...

When a falling stock becomes a screaming buy because it cannot conceivably drop further, try to buy it thirty percent lower. - Al Rizzo

When you find anyone agreeing with you...

When you find anyone agreeing with you, change your mind. – John Maynard Keynes