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From the book Market Wizards:



Most people, in most careers, are busy trying to cover up their mistakes. As a trader, you
are forced to confront your mistakes because the numbers don't lie. - Marty Schwartz

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Mike, the attachment is from futures.io (formerly BMT). As you can see a question mark is needed at
the end of the one-liner.

More quotes now:

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong. - George Soros
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Trading is not a job where you get paid by the hour.
You get paid for doing the right thing.
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Those who have a lot of money can speculate
Those who have little money, should not speculate
Those without money have to speculate

-Andre Kostolany


google translated .. sorry

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Mozzie at White Collar quotes very much wisdom, this one is in my opinion a perfect traders quote:

"You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails."

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Catch a good trend the way an experienced surfer catches a good wave.

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Your biggest loss is always in the future.

I'm just a simple man trading a simple plan.

My daddy always said, "Every day above ground is a good day!"
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Your biggest loss is always in the future.


I hope you mean that as in "Tomorrow never comes." {hee hee}

How about:

Your biggest gain is always in the future. (you're a wise guy Stephen)




Off-topic stuff now:

A decent amount of quotes about 'past' 'present' 'future' are contained
within The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. I really like it.

Be advised it is a spiritual work. Also, since a high level demon is writing to
a lower level demon, the wording is reversed as well. For example:

patient means Christian
Enemy means God
Father means Satan

etc.etc.

Also according to the author:

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. Not everything that
Screwtape says should be assumed to be true even from his own angle.

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Did the patient respond to some of your terror-pictures of the future?

We want him to be in the maximum uncertainty, so that his mind will be filled with
contradictory pictures of the future, every one of which arouses hope or fear.

It is far better to make them live in the Future. Biological necessity makes
all their passions point in that direction already, so that thought about the
Future inflames hope and fear. Also, it is unknown to them, so that in making
them think about it we make them think of unrealities.


We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the
rainbow's end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere
fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the future every real gift which is offered
them in the Present.

And the questions they do ask are, of
course, unanswerable; for they do not know the future, and what the future will
be depends very largely on just those choices which they now invoke the future
to help them to make.

We have trained them to
think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as
something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever
he does, whoever he is,

Your affectionate uncle

SCREWTAPE

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"IF YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER YOU HAVE TO SUFFER MAGNIFICENTLY"

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