The rules Rule #1: Never try to call the bottom It’s OK if you buy something and then it goes down more. Just don’t use what’s called “leverage” (i.e., borrow. In this…
The rules Rule #1: Never try to call the bottom It’s OK if you buy something and then it goes down more. Just don’t use what’s called “leverage” (i.e., borrow. In this case, you can go broke). Rule #2: While some say, “Buy when there is blood in the streets,” I don’t like to do […]
There was a church across the street from where I lived. In the middle of a bad investing day, when my heart was pounding so bad I thought I would die, I…
There was a church across the street from where I lived. In the middle of a bad investing day, when my heart was pounding so bad I thought I would die, I would go to church. It was always empty. I’d get as close as possible to the statue of Jesus. I would touch his […]
Newspapers are evil. Ten years ago I decided, every time I want to read, I’d read a book instead of a newspaper. Not to be snobbish. But newspapers are just full of…
Newspapers are evil. Ten years ago I decided, every time I want to read, I’d read a book instead of a newspaper. Not to be snobbish. But newspapers are just full of sh*t. I know. I wrote for five of them. People say to me, “That’s stupid. How do you get informed?” What? I’m a […]
It was 2:32 p.m. May 6, 2010. $1 trillion dollars disappeared within minutes. I couldn’t believe it. I was looking at the market. I was looking at my bank account. I thought…
It was 2:32 p.m. May 6, 2010. $1 trillion dollars disappeared within minutes. I couldn’t believe it. I was looking at the market. I was looking at my bank account. I thought I was having a heart attack. What. The H***. Is Happening? I called someone and I think I started to cry. Years later, […]
I hate to think. And I hate emotions. I used to think I was smart. I’d make a trade and it would immediately go against me and I’d be miserable. I’d sit…
I hate to think. And I hate emotions. I used to think I was smart. I’d make a trade and it would immediately go against me and I’d be miserable. I’d sit and look at the screen and feel the blood pumping all through my body. “Take a break,” another trader told me. I would […]
Our brains are messed up. Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winning economist, calls the ways we are messed up “cognitive biases.” Our cognitive biases make us sell stocks whenever everyone else is…
Our brains are messed up. Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winning economist, calls the ways we are messed up “cognitive biases.” Our cognitive biases make us sell stocks whenever everyone else is selling. Cause us to buy stocks when everyone else is buying. This is called “herd behavior.” Another cognitive bias is called “loss aversion.” […]
I was scared and I needed to make a lot of money. This is what happened. It was a beautiful day. No clouds. A deep blue morning. The best day. The stock market looked like…
I was scared and I needed to make a lot of money. This is what happened. It was a beautiful day. No clouds. A deep blue morning. The best day. The stock market looked like it was going to open higher. I ate breakfast at the Dean & Deluca on the bottom floor of the World Trade Center. […]
