Quotes About Trading

Treatment should result in, as the remarkable life, not the terrible that than diseases itself; otherwise, it defines and verifies, as the termite of life that collapses silently; unfortunately, medical trading prevails than curing.

A stock market trader can make more money by daily intraday selling than by buying shares as the price rises very slowly and rarely but goes down often very sharply

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'

The blockchain concept was pioneered within the context of crypto-currency Bitcoin, but engineers have imagined many other ways for distributed ledger technology to streamline the world. Stock exchanges and big banks, for example, are looking at blockchain-type systems as trading settlement platforms.

To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.

It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.

There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.

Years later, (Paul) Jones described the mental gymnastics that went into writing these scripts. Every evening I would close my eyes in a quiet place in my apartment ... I would visualize the opening and walk myself through the day and imagine the different emotional states the market would go through... Then when you get there, you are ready for it. You have been there before. You are in a mental state to take advantage of emotional extremes because you have already lived through them.

The British conquest of India was the invasion and destruction of a high civilization by a trading company [the British East India Company] utterly without scruple or principle, careless of art and greedy of gain, over-running with fire and sword a country temporarily disordered and helpless, bribing and murdering, annexing and stealing, and beginning that career of illegal and 'legal' plunder which has now [1930] gone on ruthlessly for one hundred and seventy-three years.

interest rates, foreign exchange

As a society, we have this perception that women are emotional. The research, however, tells us that, on trading floors, that poor risk rises and falls with testosterone levels, and these trading floors are 85 percent, 90 percent male, and these gentlemen tend, under periods of stress, to show off for each other. That's dangerous.

He made money in pawnbroking and moneylending, which is never nice, but also traded in goat skins – which is at least unusual.

The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

Transaction Costs. Transaction costs are a broad, sweeping category and can be broken down further into categories such as brokerage commissions, market impact costs (the cost of moving the market as mutual funds trade massive market-moving positions), and spread costs (the difference between the bid-and-ask or the buy-and-sell price of a stock).

Because investors as a group can't beat the market, because they are the market.

His best single rant: "maximum diversification, minimal cost, and maximum tax efficiency, low turnover [trading], and low turnover cost, and no sales loads." How

Asset management fees, 12b-1 fees/marketing fees, trading costs (brokerage commissions, spread costs, market impact costs), soft-dollar costs, redemption fees, account fees, purchase fees, record-keeping fees, plan administrative fees, and on and on.

But that's trading, not investing, and trying to time a market brings very intense and special risks.

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.

Interestingly, as I was writing this book, TapImmune (TPIV) left the small stock OTC Exchange and moved up to the NASDAQ Exchange, where stocks have to cost $ 5 or more. But I still just enter TPIV if I want to buy more shares, like I did in the past. And now my order is automatically sent to the NASDAQ, instead of the OTC exchange.

Even in the mid-1990s geeks were fair game. One afternoon a colleague and I were standing on either side of one of the narrow aisles between the banks of trading desks on the floor when one of the chief traders walked between us, his head momentarily between ours. At that instant he winced, clutched his head with both hands as though in excruciating pain, and exclaimed, "Aarrggh-hhh! The force field! It's too intense! Let me out of the way!

I thought if we could put our hard-working culture as traders into the asset management, it will be a great combination, and we did do that.