Trading Quotes - Page 6

• How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage? Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system.

  Mario

  Giving, Unfair Advantage, Losing

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• I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Investing, Sulfur

  "Frontline"| PBS, www.pbs.org. February 15, 2007.

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• Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

  Peter Garrett

  Government, Details, Schemes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

  Mike Johanns

  Borders, Beef, Cows

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Business, Want, Derivatives

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• Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

  William C. Brown

  Gambling, Games, Pleasure

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• Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

  Frank Gaffney

  Country, Play, Organization

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• When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

  Trey Gowdy

  People, Feel Good, Want

  "Bonuses give taxpayers $70 million more reasons to hate the IRS". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2013.

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• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  Vince Cable

  Real, Recovery, Long

  "George Osborne's campaign against Ed Balls hit by fresh Libor revelation" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2012.

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• If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.

  William C. Brown

  Gambling, Betting, Ifs

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• I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

  Tony Hillerman

  Writing, Home, Elderly

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• When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

  Douglas Coupland

  Wings, Ducks, Arms

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• When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

  William C. Brown

  Spiritual, Stupidity, Marketing

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• I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Gold, Use, Cotton

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• It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

  John McCain

  Party, Pro Life, Politics

  "Recruiting McCain to the Democratic Ticket". www.newsbusters.org.

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• It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Past, Derivatives

  "Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.

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• In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

  Peter DeFazio

  Years, Oil, Increase

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• I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up ... The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family.

  Harry Markopolos

  Senior, Wall, Careers

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• We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

  Mike Johanns

  Believe, Decision, Leader

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay

  Andrew Simms

  Country, Ice Cream, Economic Value

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• Almost all of the demand for oil that suddenly pushed prices up was speculative demand. People began to speculate not only in stocks and bonds and real estate, but also in commodities. The market went up for old tankers, which were used simply to store oil in. A lot of the oil was simply being stored for trading, not used.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Oil, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Reflection, Risk, Investing

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• "On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any. If they asked him point-blank for his opinion about the wisdom of their commitments he used a favorite race-track maxim of his: "You can't tell till you bet.""

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Commitment, Race, People

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• The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Wall, Home, Loss

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• Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the foundation for your next venture. You will reap benefits from their mistakes.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Mistake, Foundation, Investing

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”

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