"And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else"
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The subtext is classic Cramer: markets are chaotic, but I can still point to a winner, and you should trust me even if the explanation is messy. “Eyes closed” is doing double duty. It flatters the audience’s desire for an easy, default move (the set-it-and-forget-it trade), while also winking at how often investors follow narratives on faith. That’s the culture of televised stock-picking: conviction sold as entertainment, where confidence becomes a product.
Contextually, this reads like a live reaction - a moment when a host is triangulating between options on-air (the third vs. the latter), trying to reconcile a takeaway with whatever chart or ticker is in front of him. The odd phrasing exposes the mechanism: financial media doesn’t just interpret markets; it manufactures emotional permission to act. If the sentence is breathless, that’s because the business model is, too.
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Cramer, Jim. "And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-strangely-this-one-of-the-few-things-in-life-49862/.
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"And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-strangely-this-one-of-the-few-things-in-life-49862/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.






