Barry Ritholtz Quotes

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.

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

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

I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

Predicting the market is always tough.

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

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.

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.

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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 don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

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

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.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

The stock market is not a good arbitrator of success over the long term.

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.

Dead-low interest rates are great for stocks. They don't run up, they creep up.

There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.

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.

The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

I think average investors should not trade a lot. The evidence is overpowering. The more you trade, the less you earn.

Britain's FTSE 100 stock index has not just recovered from its post-vote low close below 6,000. It has surged to close at nearly 6,600. That's its highest closing value yet of 2016, and within reach of its all-time highs.