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InvestmentMAGE's Blog : Contradictory Aphorism Game (Preferably Stock Market related)

Date November 1, 2009  Edited: November 1, 2009    Comments Comments (11)    Rate this post Recommend This Post (8)   
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Juxtapose a pair of familiar aphorisms that seem to advance contradictory principles.

Example:

Contradictory aphorisms on distance within relationships
...
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"Out of sight, out of mind."

...

Another example

"Time heals all wounds."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

Now for the Fun!

Contradictory Aphorism Game (Preferably Stock Market related)
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Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

"Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch the basket."
J. Pierpont Morgan
…………..

"First rule of investing: diversify, diversify, diversify"

"Don't Diworsify."
Peter Lynch
…………………………..
"The trend is your friend."

"The trend is only your friend until it ends."
or
"The Trend Is Your Friend Until It Hits A Bend"
Albert Edwards:
.........

If you can’t think of the opposite one, just put your favorite out there and perhaps someone else can think of an opposite one.

Enjoy!!

MAGE


Extra points if you can name the source.

11 Comment(s):

Author MackTheKnife     Date November 1, 2009 11:25
Howdy, Mage!

"Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch the basket."
J. Pierpont Morgan


Please be advised the aphorism "Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- WATCH THAT BASKET!" appears in The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (http://tinyurl.com/yzrckg6), authored by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), who, interestingly enough, was considered by many contemporaries to be not only America's best writer but also its worst investor.

Good luck!

MackTheKnife
Author InvestmentMAGE     Date November 1, 2009 14:40
Thanks MTK,

Extra points for you!!!

Cordially,

MAGE
Author InvestmentMAGE     Date November 1, 2009 23:28  Edited: November 1, 2009 by InvestmentMAGE
Sell in May then Go Away.
...
Profit in May When Others Go Away.
Tobin Smith
Author InvestmentMAGE     Date November 2, 2009 15:14

"Buy the rumor, sell the news",
or in this case
"sell the rumor, buy the news"
Author InvestmentMAGE     Date November 3, 2009 06:49
"You should invest for the long term, we'll invest in high frequency trading" WS
Author zaphod     Date November 3, 2009 08:15
"Buy low, sell high"
..........
"Buy high, sell higher"
Investors Business Daily
Author InvestmentMAGE     Date November 3, 2009 18:19
"The trend is your friend."
....
Be fearful when others are greedy..
Warren Buffett
Author MightyMo     Date November 3, 2009 22:52
"Sell when you can, not when you have to"

Bernard Baruch [a great investor in the 1920s] said nobody buys at the bottom and sells at the top except liars.

"The market doesn’t care how you feel about the market"

Here's a contradictory aphorism : If a company lays off a lot of workers, the market likes it.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
- Vince Lombardi
Author InvestmentMAGE     Date November 4, 2009 01:31
If you think it's lonely at the top, you should try the bottom.
Unknown
Author InvestmentMAGE     Date November 6, 2009 14:59
“In price is knowledge,”
...
Efficient Market Hypothesis ( EMH)

BTW
Do you believe in Efficient Market Theory (EMT)?

You're familiar with the old joke about the economist who won't pick a twenty-dollar bill off the sidewalk, because if it were really there someone would have picked it up already. All right. So Efficient Sidewalk Theory (EST) says that there are no twenty-dollar bills on the sidewalk, because they've been picked up.
Author InvestmentMAGE     Date November 15, 2009 13:22
""When They Tell You Not To Panic... That's When You Run!""
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