Top 130 Traders Quotes & Sayings

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

Wal-Mart has become the whipping boy for political demagogues, unions and anti-traders. I suggest that they have the wrong target.... Wal-Mart exists and prospers because tens of millions of Americans find Wal-Mart to be a suitable source of goods and services..... unions and anti-traders should direct their outrage and condemnation at the tens of millions of Americans who shop at Wal-Mart and keep it in business.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

It doesn't matter whether the market is up or down. All the day traders want is volatility.

There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.

We believe we can train any intelligent, quick thinking person to be a trader. We feel traders are made, not born.

The truth is that once you get down on the trading floor, you find that the traders come from all walks of life. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a trader. In fact, some of the best traders whom I knew down on the floor were surf bums. Formal education didn't really seem to have much to do with a person's skill as a trader.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.

Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.

We built a market at IEX that does not sell certain types of technology advantages to high-frequency traders, and as a result, the high-frequency traders that didn't rely on buying those advantages trade on IEX.

Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

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.

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take risky bets that don't pan out.

The best traders are simply slaves to the market's price action

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.

I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.

First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel.

I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

It's not a bad thing for independent traders to come into a high street to mix things up, but what shouldn't happen is that the traders who were there before are priced out.

One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments.

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.

Bakhchisaray was formerly the capital of the Crimean khanate and once an important crossroad of the Silk Road, where traders met from across the Black Sea, the steppes of Central Asia, Russia, and eastern Europe.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

Having traders elbow you while you are doing live TV is a good education in something.

Traders take a good system and destroy it by trying to make it into a perfect system.

You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

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.

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

A state in India will have more traders than perhaps a European nation. Trade is a great way to integrate people.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments. And there is an incredible race for speed now. People are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to shave milliseconds off.

The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?

Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong

The people who want to be recognized as the greatest traders are probably not the greatest traders. Egos get in the way of the process. In my opinion, you never want to be the largest player in the pit.

Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and teeth.

Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.

Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

Macri only wooed hot money, carry traders and speculators. He is the only responsible person for the hardship Argentina is going through.

Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

Traders focus almost entirely on where to enter a trade. In reality, the entry size is often more important than the entry price

The good traders are the ones who can hold their ground the majority of the month and participate in that small handful of trades that are windfalls. The real skill is in not LOSING money!

People are disillusioned with the BJP. Even their hardcore voters, like the traders and baniyas, are angry after demonetisation.

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.

I don't believe Trump or Cruz are fair traders. I think they are probably both free traders.

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

I try to support local traders. The service makes up for any extra cost.

There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.