Martin Zweig Quotes

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.

The latter part of bull markets are typically led by stocks that are seen then as high quality, but the ones that do best are the ones that weren't seen as such high quality before.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

The stock market was relieved that the Fed didn't sound tougher, and the stock market seems to figure that everything they like about Donald Trump will come true, and everything they're afraid of about Donald Trump will not come true.

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

… there is little rhyme or reason to the going up or coming down of the [Stock] Market

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.

It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.

I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.