KG Trading

Gold etf basket trading

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time period is 22.12.2005 - 22.12.2010

gold etf basket AU CEF DGL GDX GFI GLD HMY IAU KGC

Money management:

Number of shares to buy is determined by the follown formula. 20% of initial position divided by (Close-2 time 13 period ATR). Start allocate capital from those ETFs which have highest Close/200daySMA ratio.

Long:

Take only long trades
2 period RSI is less than 30
today is spy’s close is 1% above its 200 day SMA
today is lowest low of the past 7 days

Exit Long

method 1 : if 13 period adx is less than 30 and dmplus is higher than dminus and today is highest high of last 7 days
method 2 : 13 period adx is greater than 30 and close > (13day ema + 2*atr13) and dmplus is higher than dminus

xau gld system

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date range 2004- 2010 daily

XAU Philadelphia Gold and Silver Sector Index

GLD SPDR Gold Shares

Strategy name kg-xau_gold system. This system buys gold etf.

send me and email to get the strategy of this system.

email : k...@g...l.com

gld – tlt system

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date range 2004- 2010 daily

TLT is iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treas. Bond ETF

GLD SPDR Gold Shares

Strategy name kg-tlt_gold system. This system buys gold etf.

send me and email to get the strategy of this system.

email: k...@g...l.com

Wide Range bars in the direction of the trend

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Portfolio is MSCI International Country ETFs

01.01.2004– 05.10.2010 - daily data

Wide range bar is defined as “Today’s range is at least 50% greater than each of the previous five days.” StdDev of % wins is high. Because the system do not generate too much trades for each stock.

Win rate is high. Profit factor is good.

if wide range pattern occurs go long

if Close > 200 day SMA and 10 day sma > 10 day sma yesterday buy stop at the high of today.

laps in the direction of the trend

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Strategy is tested on top 20 liquid ETFs.

01.01.2004– 05.10.2010 - daily data

Lap occurs if open today is between close and high of yesterday. Laps has positive bias. Winrate and profit factor is good. no money management is used. strategy exists after 10 days.

if lap pattern occurs go long

if Close > 200 day SMA and 10 day sma > 10 day sma yesterday buy stop at the high of today.

GAPS in the direction of the trade

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S&P500 (^GSPC ) - 01.01.2004– 05.10.2010 - daily data

Gaps in the direction of the trend has positive bias. Win% and Profit factor is high. Netprofit is not spectacular but do not forger that we did not use any money management or stoploss system. System is exiting after 10 days without any initial stop.

when stocks gaps up in the direction of trend demand is high buyers are willing to pay more.

Gaps is defined as Open today > High of yesterday

Long

if Close > 200 day SMA and 10 day sma > 10 day sma yesterday buy stop at the high of today.

Triple Momentum system

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S&P500 (^GSPC )

Date range: 01.04.1950 – 05.10.2010 , Weekly data

Buy if 5, 15, 25 Week % Momentum sum goes above 0 sell when it goes below 0.

this system has nice profit factor but low winning %. no stoploss is used.

20 Week 40 Week Crossover system

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S&P 500 (^GSPC )

Data Range : 01.04.1950 – 05.10.2010

This system is robust have high win rate and profit factor. This system can be used as a filter or a long term model. No stoploss is used.

This model can also be used to identify different stages (Rising, Topping, Declining, Basing) of market cycle.

200 WMA and 50 WMA simple Cross OVER SYstem

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Date Range : 05.10.2000 – 05.10.2010

System : Long only buy when 50 day WMA crossover 200 day WMA next day at market. Sell if 50 WMA crosses under 200 day WMA. no stoploss is used.

This system has a little edge. It is a long term system. It can be used as a filter.

Different MA periods can be tested as well. For example

Very Long Term	30 Months
Long Term	200 days	40 weeks
Intermediate Term	50 days	10 weeks
Short Term	10 days	2 weeks

NASDAQ / NYSE Index

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Stock market produces good gains when nasdaq (^IXIC) leads NY stock Exchange (^NYA)

Buy NASDAQ when nasdaq crosses over 10 day SMA of NasdaqCompositeClose/NYComposite Close

Sell is the opposite.

Date range 01.01.1999 – 05.10.2010

Profit factor is ok but win rate is below less then 50%.

M3 Money Supply and DAX

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Datasource: http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/ecb/BSI-M-U2-Y-V-M30-X-1-U2-2300-Z01-E-m#Data

Seasonality of DAX

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The image below shows the seasonality of the DAX index. The cycles below are constructed by using 19740102 - 20100409 range. Accordingly we can expect DAX to go down in september and go up at the end of october.

Learn from the history

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There is similarity between 2003 market buttom and 2009 market buttom. It is possible to learn from history. Market broke down in March 2004. this pattern is repeated with 2 months delay in 2009 mai. Begining 2004 markets followed a consolidation phase until october 2004. Considering this delay I would expect the market to break upward betwen october and december of 2010.

Currency Conversion for Trading Products in a Non-Base Currency

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How to convert a currency if you wish to trade products in a currency other than the currency your account was initially funded in

http://www.viddler.com/explore/ibhelp/videos/104/

FCX - Divergence

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FCX - Weekly Elder Impulse System: "

via StockCharts.com

data quality is very important in technical analysis

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ALTERNATIVE CHANNEL INDICATOR

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this indicator shows percent distance of close price from the moving averages.

Mass Psychology

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English :

Le Bon, Gustave. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BonCrow.html
In Propaganda (1928), his most important book, Bernays argued that the manipulation of public opinion was a necessary part of democracy. http://www.historyisaweapon.org/defcon1/bernprop.html

German

Psychologie der Massen, http://www.textlog.de/le-bon-psychologie.html
http://www.mehr-freiheit.de/idee/lebon.html

on risk management

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"only when the tide goes out, do you realise who has been swinmming naked." warren buffet

What can you earn with trading? starting capital for trading

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I prepared two tables to show what can be earned from trading. First table below shows a trading return with %30 (2.5% monthly return of total equity) annul return which is very very good and reasonable. Second table below shows monthly constant net income (after expenses) such as your salary. when you compare starting capital with equal starting income rows you will see that trading will not generate much income.

for more information about this research please contact me from korayguclu [at] gmail [.] com

GETTING RICH

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Human nature always wants more. How do you know when you are rich? How do you determine wealth. Robert K. has a simple answer to this question.

“if you stopped working today, how many days forward could you survive at your current standard of living?”

If you stop working today and can survice 30 years you have 30 years wealth.

DAILY MENTAL REHEARSAL

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1. In the morning ask yourself some questions like "What could go wrong today that I’m not prepared for?" If you come up with some potential problems, then you need to come up with some solutions and rehearse them in your mind.

2. At the end of the day you need to ask yourself, "Did I make any mistakes today?" Where a mistake has to do with not following your rules.) And if you have no rules, then everything you do is a mistake. If no mistakes were made, pat yourself on the back. However, if you did make a mistake, then plan and rehearse how you will avoid that mistake in the future.

Ref: http://www.iitm.com/Weekly_update/Weekly%2052%20Feb%2013%202002.htm

NINJATRADER DEBUGGING with visual studio express edition

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Visual Studio Express edition is free but It is not possible to attach to a process in Visual Studio Express edition. But there is a way to debug your ninjatrader scripts with express edition.

thx to this post: http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15671 and http://stewartr.blogspot.com/2006/09...al-studio.html

STEPS

Open Visual Studio.

Create new console application project e.g. NinjaTraderDebug.

Save the project and close visual studio.

Go to the project directory and open with notepad the NinjaTraderDebug.csproj.user file.

Edit it to look like this (the bold lines is what I added, of course you need to put your path to NinjaTrader.exe).
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<StartAction>Program</StartAction>
<StartProgram>C:\Programme\NinjaTrader 6.5\bin\NinjaTrader.exe</StartProgram>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>

Close NinjaTrader if it is opened.

Open the ninjatraderDebug project in VisualStudio.

Hit "Play" (F5), this will launch NinjaTrader and will attach to it.

Now do sections 1 and 3 from here: http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...l?VisualStudio

Stock Picks

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buy commerzbank on the next pullback.

Four dimensions of technical analysis.

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Source: The Three Skills of top trading, p.59

A technical analyst can groups his analysis in four dimensions as

- price studies

- volume studies(on balance volume)

- time studies (cycles etc.. )

- sentiment/breadth studies (52 weeks nhnl index, upside volume downside volume, advances declines etc..).

those four groups will add different dimensions to your analysis. Do not only simply select a dozen of indicators in one group. Simple is better select one indicator in each group. so that you can track different dimensions of the market.

sector rotation model

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markets are getting better.

Stock analysis (hei)

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about libor rates

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Gold is rising rising gold is a good sing. Gold leads the market by many months. Stock markets is building a bottom. This is conforming what gold libor and bonds are saying.

Market is deeply oversold.

News are lagging indicators do not watch the news!!

If you already hold stocks since 1 year do not sell your stocks. You will be selling them at the bottom!

Illistrations: © Mary Anne Aden, and fed

RSI Index versus macd lines

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RSI index and MAD FAst line is highly correlated. Therefore, it do not add any value to use both at the same time! Simple methods work better!.

ORDER TYPES

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stop limit: long trade icin verilen stop degeri asilinca limit order i markete gönder. burada stop>limit olmasi lazim aksi taktirder anlam ifadece etmiyor. shor trade icinde bunun tersi dogrudur.

auto trailing stop order: limit order i verdikten sonra trailing stop order i attach yapiyorsun. stop order yukari dogru kaymaya basliyor fiyat ile birlikte. bu order kari korumak icin cok yararli bir order.

INTERMARKET ANALYSIS

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US DOLLAR (DX #F) IS BULLISH

CRB INDEX ( CR #F/CI #F ) IS BEARISH

BONDS (US #F) SIDEWAYS

FREE TRADING VIDEOS

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Dr. Elder’s stock trading video https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a790374099/p16612275/
Martin Pring’s intermarket model http://www.pring.com/movieweb/imrcommercial/imrcommercial.html

Short PiCKS

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DBK

ARL

NDX1-Xet

Asian markets are negative this morning which is confirming our short picks. but market is very confusing at the moment do not immediate trade those picks.

Wyckoff method – Price and volume relationships

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Each day, the 1) price of the market or an issue is likely to move up or down on a close to close
basis. It does so either in a 2) price spread that is likely to be wider or narrower than the day before
and 3) volume that is likely to be either higher or lower than the day before. How these three
variables group themselves together determines that character of the action for that day and
whether it makes a bullish or bearish statement.

UPSIDE

If the price spread for a day is wider to the up side leading to a strong close on increased volume,
the advance is said to indicate demand entering. This action makes a bullish statement. If the
same price action occurs on reduced volume, the advance is said to be the result of a lack of
supply. This action also makes a bullish statement.

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If the price spread for a day is narrower to the upside, the action makes a bearish statement. If the narrower spread to the up side is combined with higher volume, the action is said to indicate the meeting of supply. If the volume is reduced,the action is said to indicate a lack of demand. Either combination tends to work against additional up side progress. That is why the statements made are considered to be bearish.

DOWNSIDE

If the price spread for a day is wider to the down side leading to a poor close on increased
volume, the decline is said to indicate supply entering. This action makes a bearish statement.
The same price action on decreased volume is said to be the result of a lack of demand. It also
makes a bearish statement.

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If the price spread for a day is narrower to the down side, it makes a
bullish statement. If the narrower spread is combined with high volume, the action is said to
indicate the meeting of demand. If the volume is lower, it is said to indicate a lack of supply.
Either combination tends to work against additional down side progress. That is why it makes a
bearish statement.

POOR CLOSES

Sometimes there are days that start out as wide spreads to the up side, but end with poor closes.
There can also be days that start out as wide spreads to the down side, but end up with strong
closes. These days are said to include intra-day failures. These failures change the character of
the action from what it might seem to be on the surface. A wider spread to the up side on
increased volume makes a bullish statement because it indicates demand entering if the close is
strong. However, if the close is poor, the indication is that the demand that was present initially
was either withdrawn or overwhelmed by supply. In both cases,the intra-day failure changes the
bullish statement to a bearish statement. However, being overwhelmed by supply is considered
to be more bearish than is having demand withdrawn. Intra-day failures that occur to the down
side on wide spreads and high volumes leading to strong closes change what would otherwise be
bearish statements into bullish statements. In these cases, the indication is that either the supply
was withdrawn or that supply was overwhelmed by demand. Demand overwhelming supply is
said to be more bullish than having supply withdrawn. Trying to interpret the exact meaning of
an intra-day failure can sometime be difficult if the action of the day is only looked at as a
whole. Viewing the intra-day action can assist in determining where the bulk of the volume was
present and that can help with the interpretation

Resource: http://www.wyckoffstockmarketinstitute.com/Archives/Price_Volume_Relationships.pdf

Articles

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It is important to have a Trading plan
Gaps gives clues about the direction of the trend
Simple things work better. 1 point rule is very simple. You can combine 1 point rule to with wyckoff method
Importance of having structure in your trading
You need to analyse long term movements short term movements of markets and analyse the intermarket analysis to be a successful trader.
Trading Psychology versus Trading Method
The Trading Psychology Plan versus Trading plan
Trading Psychology -- Consecutive Losses and the Trading Psychology
The key to trading profitably has nothing to do with technical theory. It has to do with detecting when the buyers or sellers are going to have to take evasive action.
Paper trading is the first step in improving your trading methods. You need to later improve your trading psychology skills by trading actively and taking low risks.
Behavioral Patterns That Sabotage Traders part 1, part 2
wyckoff and volume
Using Protective Stop Orders To Your Advantage
Risk Management Notes (time, duration, frequency)
Chandlier exist part 1, part 2
Tunnle vision part 1, part 2
companing technical analysis and fundamentals ETF example
Dealing with Stress for Trading Success
Trade psychology,The Sentiment Cycle
there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.
The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.
The 22 rules of trading
interest rate effect
Trading plan

Sector Rotation

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Ref:http://blogs.stockcharts.com/chartwatchers/john-murphy/

20090329 Market Analysis

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ALMANYA NH-NL INDEXSI

Haftalik NH-NL indexi divergence göstermis. bu bullish demek uzun dönemde.

Günlük NH-NL indexine bakildiginda index degeri isaretlenen yerlerde simdi oldugu duruma gelmis. bunun yaninda günlük asagi trend cizgisinin oldugu yere gelmis.

Buna göre ve bir önce gönderdigim amerikan index analizine göre pazartesi indexler düsecek.

SHORT ICIN PICKLER

indexler düsecegine göre asagida short yapmak icin indexlerden ilk basta eleme yaparak en kotu sektörü Conglomar. olarak buldum. Congloma. Sektörü en cok yukselen ve sonra en cok düsen sektörler arasindan.

BEAR MARKETLER ARASINDAKI BENZERLIKLER

Bu benzerlik grafigine göre marketlerin daha düsmesi muhtemel.(Bu karsilastirmalar arasinda farkliliklar var. Farkli kisiler arastirmayi yapmis.)

Price by Volume indicator

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Bigcharts.com Volume By Price from brian shannon on Vimeo.

Price by Volume indicator

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Bigcharts.com Volume By Price from brian shannon on Vimeo.

Finviz.com a nice website

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Finviz.com Review from brian shannon on Vimeo.

Finviz.com a nice website

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Finviz.com Review from brian shannon on Vimeo.

2009.03.28 – Marketler / BEARISH

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Günlük grafikte direnc noktalari

QQQQ

SPY

DIA

5 günlük intraday grafikler

DIA

SPY

QQQQ

günlük grafiklerde indexler yukari dogru cikarken önceki direnc seviylerini kirmis. Bu direnc seviyeleri kirildiktan sonra indexler en cok islem hacminin oldugu noktada kalmis. Cuma günü negativ kapandi yukaridaki indexler.

27.03.2009 Market analysis - bullish

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27.03.2009 Market analysis - bullish

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01.03.2009 meeting_stocks

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01.03.2009 Borsa video

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01.03.2009 Borsa video

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22.02.2009 borsa video

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borsa onemli seviyede takili kalmis buyuk ihtimallet pazartesi asagi inecek bu noktayi gecemezse. bugunku video da da ses sorunlu oldu.

22.02.2009 borsa video

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15.02.2009 borsa video

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12.02.2009 boras yorum (persembe)

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12.02.2009 borsa video

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11.02.2009 borsa video

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10.02.2009 borsa video

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02.02.2009 Borsa video

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Market review ve fikirler

02.02.2009 Borsa video

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Market review ve fikirler

06.12.2008 Borsa Analiz

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Amateurs are in the market

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Fresh Start

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The past severals days have been disastrous for many traders. Even disciplined traders hhave had difficult in getting profits. it because the markets have changed. you need to change as well. please keep in mind that you do not have trade in storm markets like that.

when inevitable occurs, take your profits and go to vocation, get away from the markets for a while to keep calm.

I am back again.

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I started trading again as of september 2008.

markets are generally bearish. upwardmovement will take time. US help to the financial markes will not change too much in the short term.

koray,

Journalist are generally reporting the history not the future

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A turkish journal is telling that it is an optimal point to buy gold again. But I do not think that it will go higher. lets wait and see what will happen.

Journalist are generally reporting the history not the future

2008-08-18T01:10:00.000-07:00

A turkish journal is telling that it is an optimal point to buy gold again. But I do not think that it will go higher. lets wait and see what will happen.

Causes of price movement

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Company 20% -> Company 80%

Market 31% -> Market 10%

Sector 49% -> Sector 10%

Causes of price movement

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Company 20% -> Company 80%

Market 31% -> Market 10%

Sector 49% -> Sector 10%

Quotes from Napoleon Hill

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

It is always your next move.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Think and grow rich.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

You give before you get.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Quotes from Napoleon Hill

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