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The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here. -- Brian Mulroney
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities. -- Sebastian Faulks
The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules. -- Ed Seykota
This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped. -- Mahathir Mohamad
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now -- Zig Ziglar
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. -- Wole Soyinka
President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal? -- Jay Leno
The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading. -- Victor Sperandeo
There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him. -- Benjamin Graham
The elements of good trading are: 1, cutting losses. 2, cutting losses. And 3, cutting losses. If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance. -- Ed Seykota
Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets. -- Alexander Elder
I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1. If you don't bet, you can't win. 2. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet. -- Larry Hite
I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important. -- William Eckhardt
He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them Risk control is the most important thing in trading. If you have a losing position that is making you uncomfortable, the solution is very simple: Get out, because you can always get back in. -- Paul Tudor Jones
Trading decisions should be made as unemotionally as possible. -- Richard Dennis
Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about. -- Paul Tudor Jones
I don't think you should invest in commodities. Eddie Murphy made it seem risky in Trading Places. -- Eugene Mirman
Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game. -- William C. Brown
What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons. -- Kenneth Fisher
When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent place in it. -- Michael Lewis
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. -- Thomas Woods
First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel. -- Gil Blake
Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between. -- Michael Covel
[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then peel off their own shirts. It took great presence of mind to bargain with a half-naked Frenchwoman. -- Stefan Kieszling
We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows. -- Sergei Lavrov
Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses. -- Paul Singer
The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague. -- Steven A. Cohen
There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. -- Kenneth Lay
China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K. -- James Dyson
Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate. -- James Hansen
The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge. -- Paul Tudor Jones
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. -- Aldo Leopold
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. -- Tom Cochrane
We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got some of the Wall Street firms a little bit in trouble. -- Frank Quattrone
People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open. -- Jay Weatherill
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab. -- James Chanos
The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee. -- Douglas Rushkoff
We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners. -- Mike Johanns
There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market. -- Paul Tudor Jones
You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading. -- Josh Brolin
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. -- Alex Berenson
You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit. -- Damian Lewis
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems. -- David Malpass
Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats. -- Matt Taibbi
The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now. -- John Katzman
People are trading distance for dollars. -- Ray Brown
To avoid whipsaw losses, stop trading. -- Ed Seykota
...Life is nothing but trading smells. -- Italo Calvino
We don't like trading agony for money -- Charlie Munger
Money is made by sitting, not trading. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
It's cool to actually have my own trading card. -- Blake Griffin
True prayer is the trading of the heart with God. -- Charles Spurgeon
Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories. -- William T. Vollmann
If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess. -- Paul Tudor Jones
The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses. -- Alexander Elder
Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading. -- Robin Sharma
Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand. -- Chinua Achebe
I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men. -- Robert E. Lee
If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less. -- James Surowiecki
What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance. -- Charlotte Eriksson
Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation -- Miguel Reynolds Brandao
I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us. -- David F. Swensen
The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones. -- Marilyn vos Savant
The idea of searching for some secret for trading success misses the point. -- Ed Seykota
Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes. -- Preet Bharara
If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living. -- William C. Brown
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
You can be very promiscuous in your research, but not in your trading. -- William Eckhardt
It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk. -- John McCain
Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species. -- Prince Philip
Iran is one of their biggest trading partners. Iran has power over North Korea. -- Donald Trump
Your trading needs to boil down to rules, money management, and that is it. -- Michael Covel
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one. -- Mae West
The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later. -- Ezra Klein
Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses. -- Steve Burns
When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down? -- Douglas Coupland
Every single day, you're trading your life for who you're working with and what you do. -- John Assaraf
In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there. -- Peter DeFazio
In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose -- Bernard Baruch
I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Losers bring money into the market which is necessary for the prosperity of the trading industry. -- Alexander Elder
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. -- Matt Taibbi
People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable. -- Yaya Toure
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living. -- John Sterling
Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays. -- Nancy Dunnan
Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting. -- Graydon Carter
I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed. -- Terence Winter
I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term. -- Chris Chocola
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor. -- Pope Paul VI
For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner. -- Lee Myung-bak
The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away. -- Phil Jackson
Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company. -- Elliot Morley
Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies. -- Daniel Altman
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A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world. -- Jo Ann Emerson
I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor. -- Chelsea Clinton
When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef. -- Mike Johanns
Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person. -- Steven Pinker
The trading side of the business means a lot of travel, being out of the office a lot of time. -- Ivan Glasenberg
California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world. -- Ted Danson
There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back. -- Janet Morris
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Why are people who are appalled at insider trading so quick to trade on inside information when it comes their way? -- Jonathan Clements
No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk. -- Alan Greenspan
The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.'s in man's ignorance. -- Michael Lewis
That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along. -- Edwin Lefevre
I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books. -- Scott Aukerman
We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets. -- Eric Cantor
For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper. -- Jim Costa
A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment. -- Maralee McKee
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers. -- Adam Smith

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