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To: expat_panama

Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.


12 posted on 11/09/2014 12:05:37 PM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: abb
Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.

While trying to find out where that came from I found:

 "Buy on the rumor, sell on the news," is an old saying on Wall Street that dates back to the 1920s.

Seems right, it was an era when the trading floor (w/o computer monitors) would be abuzz w/ half-heard stories that couldn't be confirmed until the daily news paper would hit the streets the next day.  Nowadays we're in a situation where maybe we should say "day-trade on the tweet, post derivative on the talk-radio".

Or something like that...

14 posted on 11/09/2014 12:47:18 PM PST by expat_panama
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