Market Trading Quotes

#1. Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque ... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.

Jerry Saltz

#2. Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth
stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

Amah Lambert

#3. You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate trading, or trading in mixed activity, or whatever. Well, who gives a

Dave Barry

#4. I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

Terence Winter

#5. 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

#6. Much of the market is mindlessly indexed. That means it is all beta. The knowledge is leaching away in the surf of noise and rapid trading.

George Gilder

#7. The price volatility within each trading day in the U.S. stock market between 2010 and 2013 was nearly 40 percent higher than the volatility between 2004 and 2006, for instance. There were days in 2011 in which volatility was higher than in the most volatile days of the dot-com bubble.

Michael Lewis

#8. Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade.

Charlie Munger

#9. 'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Matt Taibbi

#10. First if all, never play macho man in the market. Second, never overtrade. My major problem was not the number of points I lost on the trade, but that I was trading far too many contracts relative to the equity in the accounts that I handled.

Paul Tudor Jones

#11. Losers bring money into the market which is necessary for the prosperity of the trading industry.

Alexander Elder

#12. Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so many brokers were doing it that it was impossible to jail them all. Now it was called smart trading.

Max Barry

#13. Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#14. You will never be a greater risk-taker in the markets if you approach life with a completely different attitude.

Henrique M. Simoes

#15. In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size.

Henrique M. Simoes

#16. There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

Paul Tudor Jones