Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

Trading is very competitive and you have to be able to handle getting your butt kicked.

I decided I was going to go to Wall Street, and I was introduced to some people... I met a guy who knew a bond trader at Pressprich, and he got me to meet him and the guy that ran their sales department, Jack Collin.

The hardest trader I've ever run against.

In 2014, Blackstone was the most profitable money manager in the world. I did not anticipate that.

Trading demands total concentration and the ability to do several things at once while instantly recalling trading prices from the day, or week, before.

To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

In banking, it was my responsibility to deliver investment opportunities and solutions to hedge fund clients, and at Bloomberg, it's my job to break down news that matters to our viewers and readers.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.

One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire people from here and make deals from this room, he told me. Then he took me to the trading room. Nobody was talking to anybody else, the place was silent as a tomb, they were all sitting there watching their terminals - a great word, terminal. I tell you, it scares the crap out of me.

It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

Nasdaq is investing in the technologies, talent, and capabilities that solve the complex challenges our clients face.

I wouldn't in any way say I distanced myself from Wall Street.

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

I started John W. Henry & Company because I enjoyed applying mathematics to markets, and it was a profound challenge that resonated within me.

One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.

I think a lot of hedge funds get their trades from Wall Street and get their ideas from Wall Street. And I just like to find my own ideas. I'm reading a lot; I read a lot of news. I'm addicted to it. I basically - I follow my nose on news stories.

The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.

As an investor, I'm always scouting for new trends.

Entire populations of market strategists, fund managers, and economists are employed to try and intuit for clients which securities to bet on for the best possible return each year - or quarter.

There are a lot of parallels between being a mutual fund manager and being a general manager. Both in the financial markets and in baseball, we're dealing with a world where uncertainty reigns. We're trying to predict the future performance of human beings. It's a fundamental difficulty for which we both have to account.

We have a very competitive and profitable investment bank and strong asset management capabilities. We want to continue to build on all those businesses organically.