“During its 31.5 year history, Quantum provided its shareholders with an annual return in excess of 30%. An investment of $100,000 in the fund at its inception would be worth approximately $420 million today”
George Soros
April 28, 2000
“The social objective of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelop our future.”
John Maynard Keynes
“I was absolutely unemotional about numbers. Losses did not have an effect on me because I viewed them as purely probability-driven, which meant sometimes you came up with a loss. Bad days, bad weeks, bad months never impacted the way I approached the markets the next day.”
Jim Leitner
“Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.”
George Soros
It is not whether you can be a good trader, it is whether you can find the trading that is good for you.
When you have found your niche, you don’t need discipline to do the right things. You won’t want to do anything else.
Dr. Brett Steenbarger