Barry Ritholtz Quotes

I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

There will always be bull markets followed by bear markets followed by bull markets

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.

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

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

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.

Markets tend to always overshoot when they get really ebullient.

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

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

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

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.

More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.

There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.

We don't think much about the up and down of the public 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.

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.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

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.

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.

To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks tend to outperform during the back half of bull markets.

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.

At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.

Predicting the market is always tough.