Psychology

The qualities essential to the equipment of a speculator are judgment, self-reliance, courage, prudence and pliability. To these could be added another quality, patience.”----Dickson G. Watts,

Wyckoff concluded: “If you do not possess courage, self-reliance, patience, prudence and pliability, cultivate those qualities. . . . You must train yourself . . . make a searching analysis of your own mental process.”

Volume

Is it volume which causes price changes, or do price changes cause volume—the hen or the egg, which came first?—H. M. Gartley, Profits in the Stock Market (Miami, FL: Lambert-Gann Publishers, 1935)

Limits

A really important hurdle to becoming a complete trader is learning to identify and accept your own limits. There are limits to how frequently you should trade, how much money you should place at risk, how many different stocks or commodities you should invest in, how many technical indicators you should use, and so on.---Hank Pruden

Study Your Mistakes

I have always found it profitable to study my mistakes. Thus I eventually discovered that it was all very well not to lose your bear position in a bear market, but that at all times the tape should be read to determine the propitiousness of the time for operating. If you begin right you will not see your profitable position seriously menaced; and then you will find no trouble in sitting tight.----REMINISCENCES OF A STOCK OPERATOR by Edwin LeFevre