Let be honest. Tell Uncle88888 that you have read them. The two statements at the top of this blog! Uncle8888 didn't anyhow put them for fun! It was only after painful moments in the stock market; Uncle8888 has this wisdom to put them right up at the Top so that every readers may read them and understand their meaning and cut deep into their Investing Mind. The two processes of long-term investing and short-term trading. "The market is not your mother. It consists of tough men and women who look for ways to take money away from you instead of pouring milk into your mouth." - Dr. Alexander Elder "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - Aristotle Any retail investors who have not been through a full market cycle of either Bull-Bear-Bull or Bear-Bull-Bear and survive at the end of a market cycle ......