Alex Berenson Quotes

Buying securities is usually easier than selling securities.

On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades can be matched directly. But most larger trades are delivered to the specialist on the floor of the exchange by human brokers, a system that big investors view as increasingly inefficient.

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

Citadel's Capital Market division plays an important role in our nation's financial markets. Our broker-dealer is the largest market maker in options in the United States, executing approximately 30 percent of all equity option trades daily.

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

I've been into cars my whole life, I've always bought and sold a few here and there on the side, as kind of a hobby.

Auctions create greater price discovery and liquidity, resulting in a very meaningful final auction price. If you were building a securities exchange today, an auction would be a core feature.

We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.

For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

He that buys the office of magistrate must of necessity sell justice.

Gentlemen. There is no man nor group of men who can buy all the stocks that the American public can sell.

You're constantly trading assets back and forth to get your program.

The stock market is the world’s largest Oujie Board.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

We know full well we cannot sell where we do not buy and we cannot sell successfully where we do not carry.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

One of the reasons why we can make a lot of money in equity markets is because they're auction-driven, and auction-driven markets are very different from almost any other kind of market.

The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.

I was convinced that the trading frequency measured a fundamental heartbeat of financial markets. Clearly it reflected the flow of information. It turns out also to be closely related to measures of liquidity.

Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.'

What indexing does is neutralize a large part of the stock market. There's no trading in those stocks, or almost none.

What people really haven't thought about with real estate is, if you get tax reform, you're going to see real estate now... the velocity of selling and buying real estate will just kick.