Usa "speculator" in una frase

1. But it meant that the factory site had not yet reached a value sufficient to encourage a speculator to tear it down and build something new - certainly not housing now that the government had pulled the plug on public provision

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2. speculator that was looking at their reaction before he said

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3. The client told me that the man was a speculator, was loaded, and he made his money through buyouts like mine

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4. A speculator surveying an undeveloped canyon

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5. "Tell me, have you ever thought that seven times 1,700,000 francs make nearly twelve millions? No, you have not;—well, you are right, for if you indulged in such reflections, you would never risk your principal, which is to the speculator what the skin is to civilized man

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6. Here a Polish speculator bought for half its value a magnificent estate from a young lady who lives in Nice

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7. He is a traitor, a speculator! He is a viper that we have nursed to our “Let him go,” she said in a clear voice that carried throughout the tensely quiet room

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8. It simply made everybody furious that an old speculator who always said nasty things about the Confederacy should have so much money when we were all so poor

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9. But they were stung that they must owe lives and freedom to Rhett humiliation at taking their lives from Belle than the women did, for many of them thought Butler, a speculator and a Scallawag

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10. He was bad enough when he was a speculator during the war and making money out of our hunger but now that he is hand in glove with the Carpetbaggers and Scallawags and a friend—actually a friend of that odious wretch, Governor Bullock-Call, indeed!”

11. “So the river-boat gambler and the speculator is going to be respectable! Well, your first move toward respectability had better be the sale of Belle Watling’s house

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12. His experience as a speculator taught him that every market’s collective wisdom equilibrium is fragile

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13. The speculator is the parent of the idea…

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14. This is the point of my punting account, to feel the joy and pain of my speculator customer base

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15. I’m OK at that but I’d prefer to buy dog shares and wait, than have to start putting on my speculator hat

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16. It does not differentiate as to whether you are a speculator or an investor

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17. This would soon drive every investor and speculator away

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18. It is the creation of an environment, which in turn creates either fear or greed in the mind of the investor or the speculator

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19. The potential for unlimited profits is, of course, of great interest to the individual speculator, while the security blanket of limited risk provides protection for BOTH the trader and broker

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20. When should you get out? Without a rational, pre-planned follow-up action, you might be tempted to change your philosophy from that of a neutral option trader to that of a market speculator who is attempting to “rescue” a position

21. If hedged positions drive you crazy because you know you'll have a losing side as well as a winning side, then perhaps you should trade options more as a speculator - forming opinions and acting on them accordingly

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22. While for obvious reasons the investor in high-grade bonds has a lesser concern with market fluctuations than has the speculator, they still have a strong psychological, if not financial, effect upon him

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23. In the first place, what may be called the mechanics of speculation involves serious handicaps to the speculator, which may outweigh the benefits conferred by analytical study

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24. Even if we grant that analysis can give the speculator a mathematical advantage, it does not assure him a profit

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25. This may suggest the odds against the untrained investor or speculator

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26. In this respect the analyst’s approach is diametrically opposed to that of the speculator, meaning thereby one whose success turns upon his ability to forecast or to guess future developments

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27. It was this rigid, exclusionary, black-and-white attitude toward investment propriety that likely led John Maynard Keynes to his trenchant observation that “a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware

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28. 29) At nearly seven decades’ remove from Graham and Dodd’s second edition, and even further from the Great Crash of 1929, the language, let alone the permanent frame of mind, of disciplined austerity does not come easily to the contemporary investor (let alone speculator)

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29. 324) Stated otherwise, be an investor, not a speculator

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30. The investor interested in safety of principal should not abate his requirements in return for a conversion privilege; the speculator should not be attracted to an enterprise of mediocre promise because of the pseudo-security provided by the bond contract

31. The speculator who wants to reduce his risk by operating in convertible issues is likely to find his primary interest divided between the enterprise itself and the terms of the privilege, and he will probably be uncertain in his own mind as to whether he is at bottom a stockholder or a bondholder

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32. Any of these three securities should also have been attractive to a speculator who was persuaded that the related common stock was due for an advance in price

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33. Moreover he is running the risk of transforming himself—generally, as well as in the specific instances—from a bond investor into a stock speculator

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34. The investor must not buy them, and the speculator generally prefers to devote his attention to common stocks

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35. The self-deception of the mass speculator must, however, have its element of justification

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36. When in his capacity as investor or speculator the business man elects to pay no attention whatever to corporate balance sheets, he is placing himself at a serious disadvantage in several different respects: In the first place, he is embracing a new set of ideas that are alien to his everyday business experience

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37. But although these facts would undoubtedly condemn the issue in the eyes of the speculator, the reasoning of the analyst might conceivably run along different lines

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38. The investor in common stocks, equally with the speculator, is dependent on future rather than past earnings

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39. But this is really begging the question, because it assumes that the intelligent speculator can consistently detect and wait for these abnormal and temporary conditions

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40. Assuming (1) diversification, and (2) reasonably good judgment in selecting companies with satisfactory prospects, it would seem that the speculator should be able to profit rather substantially in the long run from commitments of this kind

41. In essence, what Graham and Dodd required was that an investor, as opposed to a speculator, should know as far as possible the value of any security purchased and also the degree of uncertainty attached to that value

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42. In case two or more issues of industrial stocks seem to offer equal prospective profits, the speculator should purchase the shares selling at the lowest price

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43. Examples: It is difficult to say exactly how apprehensively the investor or speculator should have viewed the presence of $68,000,000 of bank loans in the New York Central balance sheet at the end of 1932 or the bills payable of $69,000,000 owned by Cities Service Company on December 31, 1931

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44. It was typical of the speculator to ignore so obvious a hazard and typical also that he suffered a large loss for his carelessness

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45. It is the essential character of the speculator that he buys because he thinks stocks are going up not because they are cheap, and conversely when he sells

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46. Hence there is a fundamental cleavage of viewpoint between the speculator and the securities analyst, which militates strongly against any enduringly satisfactory association between them

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47. The exaggerated response made by the stock market to developments that seem relatively unimportant in themselves is readily explained in terms of the psychology of the speculator

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48. The investor of small means is privileged, of course, to step out of his role and become a speculator

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49. ” This may be sound advice to the speculator seeking quick action on his holdings

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50. We are equally sure that if he places his emphasis on timing, in the sense of forecasting, he will end up as a speculator and with a speculator’s financial results

51. Timing is of great psychological importance to the speculator because he wants to make his profit in a hurry

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52. The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements

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53. These services have a varied clientele, ranging from the most conservative-minded investor to the rankest speculator

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54. The investor or speculator interested in ALCOA shares, reading those figures, might say to himself: “Not so bad

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55. You have probably turned from investor into speculator, and quite often at an unpropitious time (because the stock has already had a large advance)

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56. Thus it was the speculator who looked out and saw future developments coming before other people did

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57. But today, if the investor is shrewd or well advised, he too must have his lookout on the future, or rather he mounts into a common lookout where he rubs elbows with the speculator

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58. Or the small book-value portion can be considered as a sort of minor preferred-stock component of the price, the rest representing exactly the same sort of commitment as the old-time speculator made when he bought Woolworth or U

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59. He bought almost entirely for safety and income, and let the speculator concern himself with price appreciation

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60. Baruch, perhaps the only continuously successful speculator of recent times, in 1932

61. In two of the biographies that have been written about Jesse Livermore, Jesse Livermore Speculator King by Paul Sarnoff and The Amazing Life of Jesse Livermore by Richard Smitten, mention is made of a period when Jesse Livermore had to contend with a death threat against his son, Jesse Jr

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62. The question for the serious investor who is not a short-run stock market speculator is “Who cares?” except that in an overall appraisal of management by a trained analyst, information about management attitudes can be gleaned from looking at management opting either for FASB 123 or APB 25

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63. On Whether He Is a Speculator or Investor

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64. Just as a speculator can rarely hope to pick the exact bottom or top at which to take a long or short position, an option trader can rarely hope to pick the exact bottom or top in implied volatility

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65. As the trading day progresses, extremes are reached as speculator emotion is tossed around

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66. Remember: there’s nothing wrong with being a speculator

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67. It’s for this reason that a distinction must be made: are you an investor or a speculator?

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68. Bernard Baruch, the great Wall Street speculator from the turn of the last century, once said, "Even being right three or four times out of ten should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly

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69. He was also something of a speculator

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70. But just realize that if you’re playing this game, you’re most likely no longer just an investor, you’ve become a speculator as well

71. Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to Schinderhannes

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72. Hedging pressure explanations do not seem to get much empirical support; certainly Commodity Futures Trading Commission data on hedger or speculator positioning have limited ability to predict future commodity returns

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73. presidents, said it best: “If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average

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74. Baruch, however, defined speculator as follows: “The word speculator comes from the Latin ‘speculari,’ which means to spy and observe

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75. A speculator, therefore, is a person who observes and acts before [the future] occurs

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76. Joe Kennedy, one-time Wall Street speculator and father of former President John F

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77. The Role of the Speculator

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78. This is the small speculator

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79. Although we are not saying that professional traders never buy options and always sell options, it is our contention that it is the small speculator who will tend to hold simple long call or long put options to try to profit from some future move

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80. Both of these types of traders have advantages over the small speculator

81. Open interest often can be a tipoff to what side of the market the small speculator is betting

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82. Through these years, we have come to the conclusion that selling options is the best way for the small speculator to compete successfully and consistently with the pros

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83. There are a few who remember his little patch among the walnuts, which he let grow up till he should be old and need them; but a younger and whiter speculator got them at last

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84. Not because he had his hair curled at the barber’s, not because he was in such a hurry to show his wit, but because he is a spy, a speculator, because he is a skin-flint and a buffoon

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85. a speculator and spendthrift; in fact I had probably heard something more definite about him, but I have forgotten

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86. It is well known to your committee, and to the whole nation, that the far greater part of the officers were compelled by hard necessity to dispose of their commutation certificates at prices infinitely below their nominal amount; that this did not proceed from want of patriotism, of which they had beforehand given proofs most unequivocal, or of want of confidence in their Government; but that, after having spent the vigor of their manhood in the service of their country, they returned to the walks of civil life, (many of them maimed, and scarcely able to halt along,) ignorant of what was passing or likely to pass in the councils of their country; the griping hand of poverty bore hard upon them; and, unacquainted as they necessarily were with civil affairs, they fell an easy prey to the wiles of the artful and insidious speculator, who was lying in wait to fatten upon their hard earnings

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87. Past experience, however, hath evidently shown that similar legislative indulgences have enured almost exclusively to the advantage of the unprincipled speculator, and those who avail themselves of the ignorance and subsist upon the misfortunes of others

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88. They have seen a transcript from the books of the Treasury, published to the world, exhibiting the names of a certain class of claimants; and to suppose that a facility of this kind, thus offered to speculative artifice and management, would not be seized upon and used by the speculator to impose upon Government, is to suppose a thing contrary to all experience

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