speculator — A market participant who tries to profit from buying and selling futures and options contracts by anticipating future price movements. Speculators assume market price risk and add liquidity and capital to the futures markets. Chicago Board of… … Financial and business terms
speculator — speculate ► VERB 1) form a theory or conjecture without firm evidence. 2) invest in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of financial gain but with the risk of loss. DERIVATIVES speculation noun speculator noun. ORIGIN Latin speculari… … English terms dictionary
stock-jobber — n. Speculator in stocks, trader in stocks … New dictionary of synonyms
Speculation — Speculator redirects here. For the village, see Speculator, New York. For the Montana mining incident, see Speculator Mine disaster. This article is about the financial term. For other uses, see Speculation (disambiguation). Financial market… … Wikipedia
stag — Speculator who buys and sells stocks to hold for short intervals to make quick profits. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary One who applies for a new issue in the hope of being able to sell the shares allotted to him/her at a profit as soon as dealing … Financial and business terms
Jesse Lauriston Livermore — Born July 26, 1877(1877 07 26) Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Died November 28, 1940(19 … Wikipedia
Victor Niederhoffer — Born Victor Niederhoffer December 10, 1943 (1943 12 10) (age 67) Nationality American … Wikipedia
futures — Commercial contracts calling for the purchase or sale of specified quantities of a good at specified future dates. The good in question may be grain, livestock, precious metals, or financial instruments such as treasury bills. Up until the time… … Universalium
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commodity trade — ▪ economics Introduction the international trade in primary goods. Such goods are raw or partly refined materials whose value mainly reflects the costs of finding, gathering, or harvesting them; they are traded for processing or… … Universalium
Short (finance) — Schematic representation of short selling in two steps. The short seller borrows shares and immediately sells them. He then waits, hoping for the stock price to decrease, when the seller can profit by purchasing the shares to return to the lender … Wikipedia