“That no one was going to do it for me; no one was going to make me rich except me. I learned that you must take responsibility for your results in the market and in life if you want to be exceptional. Secondly, I learned that in order to do well in the market you must be consistent; consistency is what separates the pro form the amateur. In order to have consistent success, risk must be managed in relation to potential reward as standard operating procedure. You’re not going to make just one trade, rather hundreds or even thousands of trades; it’s all about how much you make on average versus how much you lose on average over time. Lastly, I realized that I simply had to get to the bottom of what actually worked in the marketplace and ignore all the opinions and theories.”

– Mark Minervini