trading behavior Quotes

The stock market is people.

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.

Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.

You can be far more aggressive when you're making good profits.

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse. They don't move positions as quickly and as erratically as men. Maybe it is a bit less profitably, but I think it would have been less risky.

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.