Trish Regan Quotes

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

Markets are self-regulating only because some brave investors are prepared to bet against the market trend.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive.

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

The older I get, the less respect I have for the signals emitted by our vaunted speculative markets.

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading.

What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.

A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.

…in a crisis of confidence and credit, psychology is the big factor.

The one thing about markets is that they do not give any advance notice. If they did, they would be arbitraged away.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.

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.