“You can use charts to give you a plus or minus toward your view, but you can never start with the chart.”
― Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win
― Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win
“Peaks are a process in which confidence is tested over and over before investors ultimately concede that they were suffering from “hopeful delusion.”
― Moods and Markets: A New Way to Invest in Good Times and in Bad
― Moods and Markets: A New Way to Invest in Good Times and in Bad
“Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.”
― Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders
― Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders
“My goal on Wall Street was never to get rich but to stay in business. There’s a big difference. If you’re out of the business, you can never get rich. That’s why you have to be especially cautious when you’re trading a larger position size.”
― The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders
― The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders
“I have what I call my Evel Knievel screen. These are companies that are trying to jump the Grand Canyon and probably won’t make it. There are only two conditions for the screen. First, the company is trading at more than five times book value. Second, the company is losing money. My job is to figure out which stocks won’t make it across the Grand Canyon and then go short those stocks.”
― Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win
― Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win
Visceral’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Visceral’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Visceral
Lists liked by Visceral


























