Trading Quotes
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Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.
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With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.
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A man must believe in himself and his judgement if he expects to make a living at this game. That is why I don't believe in tips."
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I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
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He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.
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Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
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A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.
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A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.
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The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.
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Money is made by sitting, not trading.
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I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.
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My mom has this ugly Santa ornament, and one year, I took it off the tree and clipped it to her pillow. We've been trading it back and forth ever since - 16 years now. I wore it to the Golden Globes and even put it in her bird feeder. As the birds eat, it's slowly revealed.
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the idea of having someone that knows nothing about the floor or trading is a non-start.
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Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.
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Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.
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"If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?
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Luck plays an enormous role in trading success. Some people were lucky enough to be born smart, while others were even smarter and got born lucky.
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Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.
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If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.
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Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.
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The biggest secret about success is that there isn't any big secret about it, or if there is, then it's a secret from me, too. The idea of searching for some secret for trading success misses the point.
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We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
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I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.
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Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?
