Blythe Masters Quotes

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

I don't fully understand movements in the gold price.

We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.

Fundamentals make the market.

Predicting the market is always tough.

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.

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

MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

The stock market is not a good arbitrator of success over the long term.

My father worked at the Grain Exchange.

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

There is no sense in getting excited by market cap because it is a tool.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

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.

The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.