Market Fluctuations

Why Do Stock Prices Go Up And Down?

"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."
Mark Twain

Why Do Stock Prices Go Up And Down? - a brief explanation by famous investment gurus.

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
-Jean-Paul Kauffmann

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make
-Donald Trump

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
-Benjamin Graham

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
-Charles Saatchi

The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different'.
- John Templeton

The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't.
-R. Foster Winans

From my point of view, the investors are the big gamblers. They make a bet, stay with it, and if all goes wrong, they lose it all.
-Jesse Livermore

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
-Peter Lynch

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
-Warren Buffett

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.
-George Soros

I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.
-Jesse Livermore

We have two classes of forecasters: Those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know.
-John Kenneth Galbraith.

Stocks are bought on expectations, not facts.
-Gerald M. Loeb

When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.
-Carl Icahn

Change is the investor's only certainty.
-T. Rowe Price

Userul Books about Market Fluctuations

Economists and the Stock Market: Speculative Theories of Stock Market Fluctuations by J. Patrick Raines and Charles G. Leathers

The Stock Market: Bubbles, Volatility, and Chaos by G.P. Dwyer and R.W. Hafer