Quotes About Markets

Markets tend to always overshoot when they get really ebullient.

Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.

I want us to be a country of free ideas, free markets, and a freedom to dream.

People in emerging markets want to do business with the U.K. I don't see why the U.K. should be penalised for this.

Markets are really people.

Private markets, where everyone has an equal opportunity is the only system that works.

My father was really into it. We would wake up in the morning and look at the markets.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

La preghiera è una strategia pratica, la conquista di un vantaggio temporale nei mercati capitali del Peccato e della Remissione.

Open markets are the ideal, but if one guy is cheating the whole time, how is that free trade?

There is no single market secret to discover, no single correct way to trade the markets. Those seeking the one true answer to the markets haven't even gotten as far as asking the right question, let alone getting the right answer.

I feel my success comes from my love of the markets. I am not a casual trader. It is my life. I have a passion for trading. It is not merely a hobby or even a career choice for me. There is no question that this is what I am supposed to do with my life.

So, one of your shortcomings has been in letting your rational assessment of a situation keep you from participating in a psychologically driven trade. Yes, failing to participate in markets when the fundamentals are less important than the psychology. But how do you recognize that type of situation? Well, that's the key question, isn't it? [He laughs.]

internal trend lines are far more useful than conventional trend lines in defining potential support and resistance areas.

The worst thing that can happen to you in the markets is being right and still losing money. That's the danger in buying on rallies and selling on breaks these days.

I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were efficient.

People who applaud traders for providing liquidity to markets are often saying little more than that trading facilitates trading

There would also be, we may be certain, the traditional reassuring words from Washington. Always when markets are in trouble, the phrases are the same: "The economic situation is fundamentally sound" or simply "The fundamentals are good." All who hear these words should know that something is wrong.

I'm having yet another dinner, but this time with more of the working-level capital markets origination bankers. These guys are considerably more risk averse; they don't have the stomach for sales and trading and lack the smarts for M&A.

If we don't make aggressive markets and show a willingness to buy back bonds, investors aren't going to want to participate in our deals. In

Transaction costs use up resources in ways that are unrelated to the actual value of the business to be done. In the extreme, transaction costs can cause markets to be dysfunctional.

However, lowering transaction costs is a task not only for entrepreneurs, but also for public policy. The government has the responsibility to establish and maintain an environment within which markets can work efficiently. (I will refer to this aspect of market design as formal or top-down.)

The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.