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Warren Buffett Compares Bull Markets To Sex

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Mark Melin
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In an upcoming letter to investors, Warren Buffett provides advice to non-professional traders about not getting too excited about short term rises in price momentum, quoting famous Wall Street money manager Barton Biggs, saying "A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends." 

Warren Buffett Compares Bull Markets To Sex

The antidote “is for an investor to accumulate shares over a long period and never sell when the news is bad and stocks are well off their highs,” Warren Buffett noted. “Following those rules, the 'know-nothing' investor who both diversifies and keeps his costs minimal is virtually certain...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.