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Quotes About Trader

Fair enough, Gutfreund had once been a trader, but that was as relevant as an old woman's claim that she was once quite a dish.
~ Michael Lewis
How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at Salomon that I had meant to screw the customer. People would respect that. That was called jamming. I had just jammed bonds, albeit unknowingly, for the first time. I had lost my innocence.
~ Michael Lewis
A new trader could leap into a market and trade frantically inside it without adding anything of value to it.
~ Michael Lewis
I am a Trader and proud of it. We know that some accounts are written in blood and can be paid only in that. You have blood depts to settle.
~ Tamora Pierce
Eternally inexorable and unconcerned is Fate, a mere heartless trader in men's joys and woes.
~ Herman Melville
A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.
~ Ed Seykota
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
~ William Petty
Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.
~ George Carlin
The difference between a trader and an investor lies in the duration of the bet, and the corresponding size. There
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One of the attractive aspects of my profession as a quantitative option trader is that
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To my knowledge there are no studies investigating the exact properties of trader's burnout, but a daily exposure to such high degrees of randomness without much control will have physiological effects on humans
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The last thing a trader needs to do is be scientific or play econometrician during buisness hours.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
While a ten-year survival rate for a trader is in the single digits, that of a risk manager is close to 100%).
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In practice, it is done by threshold, for ease of execution, not complicated rules: you start betting aggressively whenever you have a profit, never when you have a deficit, as if a switch was turned on or off. This method is practiced by probably every single trader who has survived.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
it did not so much judge the quality of a trader's performance as encourage him to game the system by working for short-term profits at the expense of possible blowups—like
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Da mesma forma, quando trabalhava como trader, uma profissão repleta de altas doses de aleatoriedade, com contínuos danos psicológicos que perfuram até as profundezas da alma do indivíduo, eu punha em prática o exercício mental de aceitar, todas as manhãs, que a pior coisa possível já havia acontecido
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Behind every cynical (or merely incompetent) banking executive and trader sits an economist, assuring them (and us) from a position of unchallenged intellectual authority that their actions are publicly useful and should in any case not be subject to collective oversight.
~ Tony Judt
What can a losing trader do to transform himself into a winning trader? A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.
~ Jack D. Schwager
I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major; most everyone else had relatives or family in banking.
~ Philipp Meyer
A trader can safeguard himself against price volatility but never against the wickedity shown by brokerage houses to make him loss money in stock market for its profit
~ Lakshheish M Patel
First and foremost, don't work as trader in shares or even not invest. But if you have already entered it and are stuck then never try to average because you can't beat crook stock market where your biggest enemy is your brokerage firm itself
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Last week the stock market had fallen on Monday whereas it is risen on Tuesday, So it is most likely to fall on Tuesday as we have already see it rose yesterday on Monday. As myself always believed and also Sunil Minglani said that Stock Market does not want you traders to make money at any cost
~ Lakshheish M Patel
No trader or retail investor can make money through stock market and if made a few thousands, everything has to be returned back via taxes or its goons will come to pull the trader up from his house and implicate him in all false cases to retrieve millions of money
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Ordinary trader or investor has never made money in stock market and neither they can. If any of them has made money for few months, but eventually he has lost all .Brokerage firms are most corrupt as you can't trust any one
~ Lakshheish M Patel