“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.” So said Jesse Livermore in the classic “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.” IBD founder Bill O’Neil can also relate. One of his most successful investments was Syntex, the developer of the birth-control pill, in the 1960s. But he didn’t make money by simply trading it. He made money by sitting as well. Make no mistake, though.