“If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling”

James Dines, editor of The Dines Letter (online investment advice), said in 1983: “If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling.” The investment saying has appeared in many quotations collections.
 
         
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“If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling.” James Dines, Investment newsletter writer (1935- )
 
15 April 1985, Orlando (FL) Sentinel, “Understand the risks—before you invest” by Dick Marlowe, special section, pg. 6:
And the more modern-day financial wizard James Dines said, “If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling.”
 
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The New Official Rules:
Maxims for muddling through to the twenty-first century

By Paul Dickson
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
1989
Pg. 62:
Dines’s Reminder. If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling.
—James Dines, quoted in the Baltimore Sun, November 9, 1983