Investors are right and wrong all the time for the wrong reasons.
- Marcus Nikos
- Feb 4
- 4 min read
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Having a mutual fund management company is like having a toll booth on the George Washington bridge all for yourself.
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Generally speaking, bad news tends to develop on the installment plan, and the first earnings revision is usually not the last.
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Like the basic laws of physics, where action creates reaction, economic and political trends tend to develop their own countervailing pressures.
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As history has taught us, most of the time, most of the crowd moves long after the optimum time to have moved is passed. So it is with investment trends, which start with the belief of a few and end with the conviction of the many.
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The ability to outperform in the financial market requires creativity, vision, and the ability to see things that others cannot see.
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All of us, all of the time, have to be on guard against groupthink.
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Crowd enthusiasm, always greatest at the peak of a market, more often leads sensible men to behave foolishly. Nevertheless, the aim should be to have one's self well enough in hand to be immune to outbursts of mass emotion.
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It is dangerous for any speculator to set up preconceived ideas as to how low or how high a stock or a group of stocks should go. His judgment should be formed from a series of observations, continuous from the time of his original purchase.
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Vanity makes men sell good stocks and keep poor ones in times of distress. They don’t mind disposing of gilt-edged stocks which show a profit — the very ones which might finally make up the losses on others.
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The more a business serves others, and the more problems they solve, the more profitable they will be and the more an investor in those enterprises should make.
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Successful investing requires the management of your own ego and temperament and usually that of your clients as well.
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The more things people worry about the better for an investor, because those worries are already instantiated in the overall market.
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Nearly every mistake I’ve made has been because I picked the wrong people, not the wrong idea.
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Too many businesspeople delude themselves. They want so much to believe that they listen only to what they want to hear and see only what they want to see.
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Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s the execution that’s really the important thing and you need really good people for that. Good people can change directions, but there are very, very few truly great people who can execute properly.
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Listen here's the thing
you can open up a Barrons go to the new investor page on IBD turn on CNBC or Bloomberg or even the unemployeed twats on stock twits and reditt all have ideas
an idea is easy
True talent and the real gift lies in the execution nd the follow up and management of an investment
what you do when yiou enter the trade
Thats where we come ion
revelations
prometheus research
stole fire from wall st so good at what he did the [owers that be locked him up sole everythig from him
can't happen ;look at trump
you will pay for ypour sacrifices the gos are an envious lot
return to oz
I am the new one
1111111111
i would much rather say hello
have a talk then take selfie i have never taken a selfie i ever will it
selfies stop the world they stopmlife
it goes on instagram to give people a false sense of relevance
depression is you saying i dont want to be this character anymore
you are playing a false character
you can fail at what you dont want so you may as well go after your dreams
decionas all come to love or fear
and greed
most of you make yoiur decisions and live your lives based on fear disguised as partivcaity
AD opportunity disguised as risk
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Discipline comes from the marketplace, from fear of loss and the consequences that come from overindulgence.
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your depressed becaue your trying ti be something for the world
she called her pussy the temple
you can stop the search even when you get there you willnot be fullfilled
trust nme i know however if yiu want money fame pissy go get it just dont put any high valued expectatiobs on oy
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For me, business is not a battle to be waged -- it’s a puzzle to be solved.
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I do know, at least in my business, luck must certainly be enhanced by a keen sense of awareness.
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Growth, demographics, and liquidity drive the real estate business.
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You have no value if you have no liquidity.
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Analysts generally regard the stock market as the passive reflection of investors' expectations. But in fact, it is an active force in shaping them.
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I believe the reasons for selling a stock should be harmonized with the reasons for buying it.
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In the end, we have to sell when basically the reasons for purchasing a company in the first place are not valid anymore.
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Memory – and the resulting prudence – always comes out the loser when pitted against greed.
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One of the important factors behind the fluctuation between bull and bear markets, between booms and crashes and bubbles, is that investor memory has to fail us – and fail universally – in order for the extremes to be reached.
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The truth is markets are made up of people, with their emotions, insecurities, their tendency to go to extremes, and their other foibles. Thus, they often make mistakes and swing to erroneous extremes.
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Investors are right and wrong all the time for the wrong reasons.
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