Investors don’t agree on much, but they do agree that making money in the market comes with a steadfast strategy that is built around a set of rules. Think for a moment about your early days as an investor. If you’re like many, you jumped in with very little knowledge of the markets. When you bought, you didn’t know what a bid-ask spread was, and you sold either too early if the stock went up or too late if the stock dropped.
If you don’t have your own carefully crafted suite of investing rules, now is the time to create one, and the best place to start is to ask the people who have had success in their investing careers. We not only found people who can claim success but who are, in fact, some of the most successful investors in history.
Key Takeaways
- Successful investors all have one thing in common—they have rules.
- Notable investors like Warren Buffett recommend focusing on fundamentals and management quality before looking at the price of a stock.
- Other major investors advise on betting big when you have an edge and to always be forward-thinking.
1. Dennis Gartman: Let Winners Run
Dennis Gartman published a daily investing newsletter called “The Gartman Letter” from 1987 up until his retirement at the end of 2019. It offered commentary on global capital markets and was read by hedge funds, brokerage firms, mutual funds, and grain and trading firms all over the world each morning. Gartman is also an accomplished trader and continues, even during retirement, to comment on financial markets.
“Be patient with winning trades; be enormously impatient with losing trades. Remember it is quite possible to make large sums trading/investing if we are ‘right’ only 30% of the time, as long as our losses are small and our profits are large.”
His rule above addresses a number of mistakes young investors make. First, don’t sell at the first sign of profits; let winning trades run. Second, don’t let a losing trade get away. Investors who make money…
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