Since 2011 · Words worth trading on
Quote of the Day
Standing on the shoulders of giants.
Over a decade of quotes on trading, discipline, patience and mindset that I keep coming back to. Some from market legends, some from philosophers, a few from the trail.
Read one before the open. Then go do the work.
“If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don’t have enough goals.”
“In my mind, I’m always the best. If I walk out on the court & I think the next person is better, I’ve already lost.”
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.”
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn…”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
“The key to overcomming fear of failure is breaking one’s attachment to results. When ever we convince ourselves that results are all that count, we fall into anxiety that paradoxically limits our ability to achieve results…”
“If you find a path with no obstacles, It probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
“Worrying is like sitting on a rocking horse, it gives you something to do but you don’t get anywhere doing it”
“People underestimate the time it takes to succeed as a trader. Some people come here and think they can sit with me for a week and become great traders. How many people when they went to college would’ve thought to walk up to the professor and say, “I know the course is for a semester, but I think a week should be enough for me to get it.” Gaining proficiency is the same in trading as in any other profession - it requires experience…and experience takes time.”