Cut short your losses, let your winners run on.

– David Ricardo 1772 – 1823

Those words, today known as “The Golden Rule of Trading”, were printed in The great metropolis, Volume 2 By James Grant in 1838. To be sure what he specifically meant:

Cut your losses short let your winners run

Source: The great metropolis, Volume 2 (Google eBook)

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