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Thank you,
Bob

Sage Advice

“The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns. Well-managed portfolios start with this precept.”
Benjamin Graham

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.
John Templeton

Buy on the cannons,
sell on the trumpets.
Old French Proverb

Rule #1: Never lose money.
Rule #2: Never forget rule #1
Warren Buffett

The four most dangerous words in investing are
"This time it's different".
John Templeton
This was the prevalent thought during 1999 to 2000 - Bob

History always repeats, only the details change.
Edson Gould

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
John (Jack) Bogle

Stock are bought on expectations, not facts.
Gerald Loeb

Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.
Don Hays

P/E ratio - The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
Anonymous

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action:" when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often less than 2, and sometimes considerably less than 0.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

I made money by selling too soon.
Bernard Baruch

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Bernard Baruch

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many people as possible.
Bernard Baruch

The hardest part of a bull market is staying on.

A bubble is a bull market in which you don't have a position.

A buy and hold strategy is a short term trade that went wrong.

October, this is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain

Economists have predicted 14 of the last 3 recessions.

Market Correction - The day after you buy stocks.

In 2008 stocks were a good buy . . . . . Goodbye Mercedes, goodbye yacht, goodbye vacation home.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
John Maynard Keynes

Money talks, but all mine ever says is "goodbye"

Don't gamble. Take all of your savings and buy some good stock and hold it until it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Will Rogers

Return of principal is more important than the return on principal.

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Observations of Stock Market Trends

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