It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.
Jesse Lauriston LivermoreThere is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.
Jesse Lauriston LivermoreThe only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.
Jesse Lauriston LivermoreWhen a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.
Jesse Lauriston LivermoreWithout faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned - to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it. I can wait without a twinge of impatience. I can see a setback without being shaken, knowing that it is only temporary.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore