“It looks like the old boys are trying to find a stone to throw at them [online traders]. The leaders of the [online trading] industry are aware of the situation, and are taking steps to do something about it.”
Dan Burke
“We're not talking about (traders) throwing crazy amounts of money in. Most of it is risk capital. A lot are testing the water: Are we for real? I understand that. It's a 15-month-old business. People are not going to have the level of trust that they have with a company they've known for years. They trade on our system because they're sports junkies and it's more interesting than talking about your stock in IBM.”
Chris Rabalais
“It's no coincidence that three of the top five stock option traders in a recent trading contest were all ex-Marines.”
Robert Prechter Jr.
“The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.”
Yehudi Menuhin
“A new breed of broker making $300,000 a year in London hot traders [who] are likely to be thirtyish, a bit cheeky and more interested in piling up commissions than meeting club cronies for a late afternoon brandy at Boodle's or White's.”
Steve Lohr
“He would always push hard and go to the limit of what he could do. He was a shrewd trader; maybe sometimes he may have been too shrewd.”
George Mitchell
“We really like the opportunities in the small cap stock market. When traders are looking to get into stocks that can deliver hundreds, or even thousands of percent return, they have to look at penny stocks.”
William McKinley
