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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I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
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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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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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the idea of having someone that knows nothing about the floor or trading is a non-start.
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A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.
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Money is made by sitting, not trading.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.
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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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You must ignore what everyone else is doing and trade only when you feel the odds are in your favor. In short, trade only when you and you alone are comfortable that the expected return of your trades will be positive. That might mean you'll have to sit out a few parties, but it will also mean that you'll have more profits over the course of your trading career.
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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.
