70 ans et pas une ride. C’est ce que je me suis dit en relisant les règles et astuces de Jesse Livermore, célèbre trader des années 20-30. Je me délecte donc de les partager avec vous pour bien démontrer, que malgré les progrès techniques, l’information en direct ou encore l’abordabilité du trading, rien n’a changé. Les règles pour gagner en bourse sont intemporelles. Tout simplement car la bourse et la somme des perceptions d’êtres humains et le sera toujours. De ce fait, l’évolution des cours hier se fait de la même manière qu’aujourd’hui. Les investisseurs vont et viennent, mais la psychologie des investisseurs, restent la même. Donc les lois et stratégies pour gagner demeurent les mêmes. Délectez-vous :-)

1. Nothing new ever occurs in the business of speculating or investing in securities and commodities.
2. Money cannot consistently be made trading every day or every week during the year.
3. Don’t trust your own opinion and back your judgment until the action of the market itself confirms your opinion.
4. Markets are never wrong – opinions often are.
5. The real money made in speculating has been in commitments showing in profit right from the start.
6. At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits.
7. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.
8. The money lost by speculation alone is small compared with the gigantic sums lost by so-called investors who have let their investments ride.
9. Never buy a stock because it has had a big decline from its previous high.
10. Never sell a stock because it seems high-priced.
11. I become a buyer as soon as a stock makes a new high on its movement after having had a normal reaction.
12. Never average losses.
13. The human side of every person is the greatest enemy of the average investor or speculator.
14. Wishful thinking must be banished.
15. Big movements take time to develop.
16. It is not good to be too curious about all the reasons behind price movements.
17. It is much easier to watch a few than many.
18. If you cannot make money out of the leading active issues, you are not going to make money out of the stock market as a whole.
19. The leaders of today may not be the leaders of two years from now.
20. Do not become completely bearish or bullish on the whole market because one stock in some particular group has plainly reversed its course from the general trend.
21. Few people ever make money on tips. Beware of inside information. If there was easy money lying around, no one would be forcing it into your pocket.