Friday 23 October 2009

The stock market requires an endless supply of losers

Perhaps the most forceful statement on the need to act in the contrary mode appears Confessions of a Wall Street Insider by the self-named C.C. Hazard:

"The stock market is built on a necessary foundation of error.  You make money on the market mainly by living off the errors of other players.  You become a predator, in fact, a carnivore, a beast of prey.  Others must die that you must live... The stock market requires an endless supply of losers."

By refusing to act like and with the crowd in either its manic or panic phases, an investor immensely raises his or her chance of not being part of that pool of losers. 

"Never follow the crowd!"

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