Market Trends Quotes

Earnings don't move the overall market; it's the Federal Reserve Board... focus on the central banks, and focus on the movement of liquidity... most people in the market are looking for earnings and conventional measures. It's liquidity that moves markets.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

Every market is in transition.

People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.

Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.

I like the idea of using all this science and technology to allow for our clients to have a deeper insight into the market.

I never try to predict the market.

I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing.

That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Because everybody else was investing in the consumer Internet, I did, too.

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

I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

It seems to me a lot of drivers have lost their personalities or are not able to express themselves. However, it's a very commercial market, and manufacturers have a far bigger say than ever before.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.

When Trump was a candidate, he talked about the stock market, because, oh, the stock market was going up when Obama was president.