Murphy's Laws
in the Stock Markets

Developing Trading Strategies

•  Sometimes it takes several years to recognize the obvious.

• The simpler it looks, the more problems it hides.

Buying Stocks

• If anything can go wrong, it will.

• If anything can't go wrong, it will.

• If you know something can go wrong, and take due precautions against it, something else will go wrong.

• You will never run out of things that can go wrong.

• Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

• The less you do, the less can go wrong.

• You can never tell which way the train will go by looking at the track.

• Always assume that your assumption is invalid.

Selling Stocks

• You never know how soon it is too late.

• When things go wrong, don't go with them.

• If you are in a hole, stop digging.

Following Trading Strategies

• Being punctual means only that your mistake will be made on time.

• A good place to start from is where you are.

• To learn from you mistakes, you must realize that you are making mistakes.

• Experience is what causes you to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

• The best defense against logic is ignorance.

• If you enjoy what you are doing; you are probably wrong.

About Diversification

• Things go wrong all at once, but things go right gradually.

Customer Service of Financial Sites

• If you don't know the answer, someone will ask the question.

• You don't have to explain something you never said.

• If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

• Be kind to everyone you talk with. You never know who's going to be on the jury.

• Never be too right too often.

• The only changes that are easily adopted are changes for the worse.

• The less you have to do, the slower you do it.

• Always do exactly what your boss would do if he knew what he was talking about.

• The e-mail never comes when you have nothing to do and finally, always remember that ...