If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right.
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- Ed Seykota
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- Source: Harris, Sunny J. Trading 102: Getting Down to Business, Wiley; 1 edition (September 1998), Read it here
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