Best Traders Quotes

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

Steve Burns

#2. The best traders have trading habits, daily routines they repeat day after day.

Henrique M. Simoes

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

Steve Burns

#4. 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.

William Eckhardt

#5. The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

Alexander Elder

#6. 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.

Ayn Rand

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

Eric Schneiderman

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

Ed Seykota

#9. If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today ... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone ... we must be compassionate!

Josephine Bakhita

#10. Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

Ed Seykota

#11. In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black's model for European bond options; another version of the same model for caps and floors; and yet another version of the same model for European swap options.

John Hull

#12. Everybody gets what they want out of the market

Ed Seykota

#13. Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong

Jack D. Schwager

#14. I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.

Alan Sugar

#15. Corporate finance, which services the corporations and governments that borrow money, and that are known as "clients," is, by comparison, a refined and unworldly place. Because they don't risk money, corporate financiers are considered wimps by traders.

Michael Lewis

#16. They had become a nation of traders.

Petina Gappah

#17. I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.

Tewodros II

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

Paul Tudor Jones

#19. Traders and Surfers both have to deal with feelings of missing out on the small ones, until the big one comes along. They also have to deal with feelings of staying with the big one.

Ed Seykota

#20. The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.

Michael Steinhardt

#21. What else can you tell us about this batna, Surendranath?" "I learnt it from English traders in Surat," said the befuddled Surendranath, "It stands for Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement.

Neal Stephenson

#22. 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.

David Ignatius

#23. The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Yehudi Menuhin

#24. 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.

Gary Weiss

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

Alexander Elder

#26. If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

Bruce Kovner

#27. This completed the curious reversal in roles that occurred in the early 1980s, when thrifts became traders and traders thrifts.

Michael Lewis

#28. Street traders were doing good business selling a paper toy which represented a pig, but if you put the paper together and unfolded it in a certain way it turned into Hitler's face.

Wladyslaw Szpilman

#29. Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

Bruce Kovner

#30. You listen to the street traders any morning. They don't shout, 'Nearly-fresh oranges, only slightly squashy, reasonable value,' do they? No, they shout, 'Git chore orinjes, they're luvverly.' Good business sense." He

Terry Pratchett

#31. In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.

Isaac Asimov

#32. The stock exchange is a gambling club in which the house members (pros, institutional traders, the State) take advantage of the public's greed in order to profit from their mistakes.

Meir Barak

#33. 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.

Ivan Glasenberg

#34. By contrast, all professional traders know full well that the market is a huge mass of people.

Anonymous

#35. They don't try to trade 'reality', they try to trade
other people's perceptions of reality. If a market is dominated by enough technical traders, it could lapse into a 'postmodern' state, with traders trading perceptions of perceptions of reality.

Brett Scott

#36. Lights burn on the upper floors, traders and analysts letting commerce take precedence over family one more time in a desperate attempt to add to a Christmas bonus they won't have time to spend.

Nick Harkaway

#37. 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!

Linda Bradford Raschke

#38. We're talking to every third-party supplier every day of the week, and our traders are talking to them and buying products from them. When we're doing that, we see opportunities which no one else sees.

Ivan Glasenberg

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

Steven A. Cohen

#40. The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

John Lawson

#41. 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.

Brad Katsuyama

#42. Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities.

Marina Warner