Louis Navellier 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.

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.

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

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

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

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.

What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.

Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to get in harmony with the market. It's suicidal to fight trends. They have a higher probability of continuing than not.

I try to buy shares of unpopular companies when they look like road kill and sell them when they've been polished up a bit.

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

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.

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

There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

Don't bottom fish.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.

In my business investing, you are buying a stock, and someone else is selling the stock. Right there, that's like a debate. Is the stock going up, or is it going to go down?

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

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

I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do.

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

The key thing when you short is to make sure you're not wrong on the fundamental intrinsic value.

I used to do a lot of the day trading and the stocks. I used to have the Ameritrade and trade options.