Trading Quotations

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.

What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.

When we had the 'flash crash' in 2010, where the price of some stocks briefly fell to zero, high-frequency trading played a big role in that event.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.

I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

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

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.

The trading side of the business means a lot of travel, being out of the office a lot of time.

I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling stories, trading details, you know? There's something I really miss about that.

As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysis of any underlying economic value. The economics of investments are not solely based on supply and demand, and that is all that goes into Bitcoin prices.

With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised of the news before trading resumes in their stocks.

People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.

With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth, meaning that several stocks rise for each stock that falls.

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.

The possibility of Mexico and maybe Russia trading through Italy is very real.

We are probably at the point where the trading cycle is slowing, at least in North America, and it's tough to say investment banking will get better. But the retail and asset management businesses look really good. That's what's exciting to investors.

We are pleased with the sales and profit growth we have generated across all of our trading blocs. We have also started to see success from our commitment to innovation and the recent introduction of new products that have resulted from that strategy.

We are pleased to be working in partnership with the State of Illinois to help the agricultural community take advantage of carbon trading opportunities.

We are aiming for trading rooms in Europe.

We believe that our move into this state of the art trading facility will allow us to further our strategic plan of becoming a scale player within the market making and execution services industry.

We are at the top of a trading range. Everyone's willing to be bullish, but is the cash there to provide the energy the bulls need? Or is the December high the high-water mark? Dow 11,000 is one of the hooks the bulls will use to try and attract more money into the market.

We are a trading nation. We need access to our markets and we need for those markets to be reasonably secured. If they're not, we can't trade.

We are at a major crossroads here. If we are unable to break out of this trading range to the upside soon, then there is a danger that we could quickly slide back down again to the lows.

We're in an environment where share prices are trading ahead of valuations.

We started off great, but we couldn't stay consistent. We go through droughts because we're still a young team trying to figure out how to score against tough defense. Even though we were ahead, I didn't like the flow of the game. We were trading baskets with Lehigh and you can't do that. I knew we needed to clamp down.

Until we get the full force of earnings and economic data later in the week, I kind of expect us to remain at the lower end of the trading range,

Whether those adjustments are wrenching will depend ... on the degree of economic flexibility that we and our trading partners maintain, and I hope enhance, in the years ahead,

We remain very positive on the home improvement sector and Home Depot's prospects, particularly given current valuation levels. Home Depot shares are currently trading in line with the five-year historic low forward price-to-earnings ratio, based on consensus estimates.

What's striking about this case is these guys thought about and sought every insider trading scheme they could get their hands on.

We're going to look at any and all options. Whether it's keeping the pick or trading or whatever.

We're moving forward with him as our point guard. We traded for him to be our point guard, to be our leader and that really hasn't changed. We really haven't reached that point yet to where trading Steve Francis.

We're more trading off of earnings. Investors will be able to tolerate continued moderate inflation as long as earnings continue to accelerate.

We're in this volatile trading range right now until we see what the Fed's going to do. A quarter-point rate increase is clearly built in (bond yields). You really want to see what further direction the Fed's going to give from that point -- whether this is the first of several rate hikes, which I think would be a negative for the market.

With the stock trading at these attractive levels, we would have liked to see more significant repurchases.

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Ultimately it will not have an impact, ... (The sanctions) will be counterproductive because (they) will degrade the bonds of cooperation that exist between the U.S, Europeans, Japanese and other major trading and investing countries around world.

Until earnings and forecasts start turning around, we are going to stay stuck in this tight trading range. There is no incentive for buyers to get back in the market.

With this agreement, virtually the entire mutual fund industry has now sworn off improper trading practices and agreed to compensate investors who were harmed,

Would Clinton draw great guests? Absolutely. I think he could be very successful. But he would be trading gravitas for money.

Would Clinton draw great guests? Absolutely, ... I think he could be very successful. But he would be trading gravitas for money.

We're still trading sideways until we hit 108 yen.

We're still trading on the defensive and seeing more selling. As it appears, this second-quarter slowdown could be a mirage.

We're still trading on that whole flash thing, and for me the Paris Hilton thing is almost an evolution too far of that.

We're still consolidating in a broad trading range.

We're seeing some cautious trading right now, but the volume is decent, the momentum is on the upside and traditionally, this is a good week for the markets.

We're seeing relative strength in (metals and minerals). There are a lot of base commodities prices that are trading at higher levels right now. The fact that the (Canadian) dollar is as low as it is has made our metals sector more competitive than they would at higher levels.

We're seeing range trading in all of the energy contracts. The big question is whether this is the bottom or if we will go lower. In the short-term the inventory numbers and the weather will determine what we do.

In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

We have seen a good three or four days of trading so (investors) are taking profits at this point.

We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor .

When you see a stock trading up on bad news ? or at least holding steady ? it leads me to believe that some of the capitulation is out of this thing.

We want our youth to be able to say: I come from a people who were trading just as the British did.

We were trading cooking secrets, ... What did you do to our car? What's your problem?

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

We don't like trading agony for money

We achieved solid results this quarter, despite more volatile market conditions and declining trading volumes, predominantly in the fixed-income markets. Furthermore, weakness in the Nasdaq, particularly technology shares, led to a decline in equity new issue activity.

We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.

There is a risk today (Thursday) of euro/dollar trading weaker and of a test of the resistance area around 1.2200/1.2170 dollars, particularly if the US data is better than expected.

We've been in this trading range between 5.375 and 5.75 (30-year bond yields) for a very long period of time, ... Then we finally broke out of that and the next target people are setting their sights for is 6 percent. We have a refunding this week, we have an awful lot of corporate supply and we also have next week's FOMC meeting approaching.

We really have no comment. But we've always been an aggressive team, whether it be free agency or through trades. And this is a great player. The trading deadline starts next week. We had conversations with them and we'll see what happens.

We've seen the yuan go stronger even as the dollar had a big move up in its last trading session. That's abnormal and it's probably because the authorities are trying to use it for political effect.

We've seen some very heavy trading today, which could be related to the news. Once the news broke, there definitely was an increase in trading.

We've seen some indications that there may be some hoarding behavior, but there are many, many factors that influence oil prices, both with respect to the short run and over the medium term, ... But there's no question that -- as in any freely trading market -- there's a psychological element that enters in from time to time.

We've seen more bad news than good news on the economic front over the last few weeks, but the market has been trading higher. Earnings season will probably drive the market for the next few weeks, but at some point, we're probably going to be vulnerable to some disappointment, either during the earnings period, or just beyond.

The creation of large liquid benchmarks will improve the trading turnover in the secondary market as this is expected to, among others, reduce the bid-offer spreads on bond prices. Participants will be able to get in or out of the benchmark issues more easily, making trading in Philippine bonds comparable to those in other emerging markets. This will be highly attractive to foreign investors in the market and bring additional business opportunities to the local financial community. This effort will complement earlier initiatives in capital market development, including the creation of the Fixed Income Exchange.

There is a window of opportunity (for small caps). Small caps are relatively inexpensive compared to big caps, and have been trading at 1.1 times cash flow, when on average they should trade between 1.3 to 1.4 times.

There is a steady migration of recruitment dollars going online, ... Employment figures are trading catalysts but this is a secular growth story, not a cyclical one, so month-to-month employment numbers are less and less relevant.

We usually don't do it that way. If he's trading goods and services and intangibles and things that have an auction value, then we just estimate when it's not pure money.

We shall look for more detail on the group's cost-cutting programme and on recent acquisitions. Overall, we expect the outlook statement and current trading to be the main share price drivers.

We regret that Canary was given special treatment, ... It should not have happened. We continue to work to determine whether One Group investors were financially harmed by this trading -- and if they were, we will make full restitution.

When the OM offer has been seen off, the board, in full consultation with shareholders and customers, will review the means by which London's pre- eminent role in European equities trading can best be promoted,

When we're talking about market instruments, then we are much more favorably inclined to emissions trading than we are to taxes and charges.

We're continuing to see sustained growth across our U.S. and international markets, deeper penetration into many vertical categories and expanded adoption of our fixed-price trading formats,

Lighter-than-usual trading volumes, due to the Assumption Day holiday in Europe, facilitated the single currency's gains,

Lucent is trading at around $10 so how in the world are they going to raise capital?

Many traders try and enter the game without even the basics of profitable trading techniques. When we found the Quantum Swing Trader course, we knew we had to roll it out to our users immediately.

Several of our trading books were on the wrong side of interest rates. It was a bunch of positions that didn't work out.

September tends to be the take-a-breather month, historically. I would guess the market over the next few weeks will be bound to a narrow trading range as companies begin to report earnings.

September is not even here yet. Throw some new blood out there. ... Trades help. I don't believe this team is trading the young guys ? it's the opposite now.

September is not even here yet, ... Throw some new blood out there. ... Trades help. I don't believe this team is trading the young guys ? it's the opposite now.

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.

Some countries are very risk adverse and will take advantage of the situation to sever ties in normal trading relationships with Canada ? or any other country for that matter ? that would perform this kind of surveillance.

Some of it is housing. But ... earnings and a couple of companies saying things are going to be a little better than expected are what's got this market trading higher.

should work actively to establish and improve a multilateral trading system that is open, fair and non-discriminatory.

Since the trading deadline, this team has come together just like that. We've had five really good performances in terms of togetherness and effort, caring about one another and all of the stuff that's so darn important.

Since the beginning of the month, Exxon has outperformed its peers by over 6%, leaving the company trading at a significant premium to the group. As such, we are downgrading Exxon to neutral, as the stock's valuation is not as compelling.

Since Thanksgiving and throughout the normally slow holiday period, we experienced unexpectedly strong trading activity and that strength has not yet ebbed,

Most upside against our estimates came from equity trading as with Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. The positive surprise ... was that mortgage trading results were actually up on last year.

Most people want stocks to go up all the time. We're back to normal and people don't like it, ... Investors that don't have the patience to ride through trading ranges won't be able to participate in the surge.