The word speculator derives from the Latin word for a "lookout".
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But owning an empty home doesn't necessarily make you a speculator.
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Solomon: I'm not a good speculator on this that or the other.
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Her mother, a homemaker, was the daughter of a Republican land speculator.
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I guess that's not why I'm some sort of record speculator or something.
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Synopsis: A wealthy Wall Street speculator discovers that his wife has a lover.
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"One of my places is in my sister-in-law's name," says a speculator.
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Fraser, the author of Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in
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Paddock said he was a high roller and real estate speculator from Las Vegas.
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There's a sense in which the T.L.C. was a speculator masquerading as a regulator.
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The speculator group cut their long positions by 15,723 contracts to 341,132 during the period.
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It has also created a new class of speculator-merchants who profit illicitly from government policy.
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She arrived home one day in October 2012 to find a speculator sniffing around the property.
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I think he is a former leveraged New York City real estate speculator who loves low rates.
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"European leaders and a speculator billionaire are joining hands to let immigrants in," he told the crowd.
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I tell you this to make the point that no speculator, however clever, is consistently cleverer than the market.
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JESSE LIVERMORE earned his reputation as a talented speculator by pocketing a tidy sum during the Panic of 1907.
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We're riffing on what he does as a speculator, spending dubious money for his cosmopolitan conception of the globe.
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"I was flooded, too, I get it," said Nick Pelletiere, above, who is both a resident and a speculator.
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Those include smaller and less developed cities that had benefited from a speculator-driven boom, such as Zhuozhou and Langfang.
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Separately, bullish speculator bets on U.S. crude futures and options on the NYMEX are near the lowest level since 2013.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options positions on U.S. and Brent crude during the week ended Nov.
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Buckley was the son of an oil speculator who grew up in a Connecticut mansion stocked with tutors and servants.
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There's been speculator the French duo will headline since a mysterious website with alleged tour dates appeared a few weeks ago.
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Separately, bullish speculator bets on U.S. crude futures and options on the NYMEX 3067651MLNG are near the lowest level since 2013.
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He was a commodities speculator for a short time; watching soybean futures soar "was kind of a rush," he told Zuckerman.
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A skilled woodsman, tough and common-born, Boone came to the world's attention thanks to a land speculator named John Filson.
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A former psychiatrist and real-estate speculator turned to helping the poor make money by selling foot pumps, charcoal and clean water.
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The speculator group raised its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 2,009 contracts to 421,916 during the period.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 7,542 contracts to 435,200 during the period.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 24,667 contracts to 453,864 during the period.
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Xu, a self-taught stock speculator, was known for his swift and accurate short-term investment decisions that often led to high returns.
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After an early career as a land surveyor, the country's first president amassed his wealth as a land speculator in the new nation.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 15,972 contracts to 342,839 during the period.
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"Who trades oil is changing," according to the Financial Times ("Fundamentals do not matter to a new breed of oil speculator", Feb. 27).
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The speculator group raised its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 15,041 contracts to 280,634 during the period.
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The speculator group raised its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 39,995 contracts to 169,386 during the period.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 34,067 contracts to 423,650 during the period.
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But this type of behavioral bias can do more harm than good, and can be the difference between investor behavior and speculator behavior.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 20,6983 contracts to 197,055 during the period.
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You are a speculator betting on your own unlikely success, and if you fail it's because you have failed to work hard enough.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 64,471 contracts to 148,090 during the period.
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Speculator short bets on Cboe Volatility Index futures contracts hit a record high last week, data compiled by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shows.
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Real estate speculator Michael Davis originally bought the house in December for $1.39 million, then ended up flipping it this month for a profit.
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" This empire, he said, included "a chain of N.G.O.s financed by an international speculator, summed up by and embodied in the name George Soros.
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Although her childhood was spent in a prosperous household, her father, a hat merchant and speculator, lost all his money when she was 14.
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In 1802, with an eye on the area's potential for growth, a speculator named Richard M. Woodhull bought 13 acres along the East River.
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"If they're a speculator, chances are they're up to something," says Tommi Mecca, director of counseling at the Housing Rights Committee in San Francisco.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 2656,21 contracts to 2593,2272 in the week to Oct.
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Yet, as Dunbar-Ortiz observes, Boone's celebrity was largely the work of another man, John Filson, a real estate speculator who wrote under Boone's name.
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One farmer, Jackot Brula, 23, moonlights as a speculator, buying directly from the charbonniers in the surrounding forests and selling to agents based in Antevamena.
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A grim speculator in human property, Pavel Ivanovich plans to buy and then mortgage peasants whose deaths have not yet been registered by the census.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 20153,323 contracts to 227,655 during the week to Nov.
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As rival tech giant Apple readies its huge new headquarters in Silicon Valley, Alphabet's Google is buying up real estate parcels like a land speculator.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 15,723 contracts to 341,132 in the week to Aug.
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In 1893, he sold the painting, cheap, to another speculator, who passed it on to a third, who donated it to the city of Atlanta.
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John Buckingham, chief investment officer of AFAM Capital and editor of The Prudent Speculator, thinks there's a case to be made for no hikes this year.
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The speculator group raise its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 17,541 contracts to 217,104 during the week ended Aug. 20.
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The speculator group raised its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 21,416 contracts to 6643,426 in the week ended March 5.
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Speculator bets on higher Brent prices reached record highs last week as Brent futures gained 21.5 percent in April, their largest monthly advance in seven years.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 70,136 contracts to 284,942 during the period, CFTC data showed.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 2,418 contracts to 189,21 during in the week to Nov.
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Paying with Bitcoin requires you to become a speculator on its volatile price for the time you are holding on to tokens and waiting to pay.
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Reuters review of CFTC data showed that was the smallest net long, or bullish, position in U.S. crude held by the speculator group in nearly four months.
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The speculator group raised its combined futures and options position in two major NYMEX and ICE markets by 22.8,220 contracts to 22014,261 in the week to Jan.
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The speculator group raised its combined futures and options position in two major NYMEX and ICE markets by 21,777 contracts to 443,703 in the week to Feb.
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It was created in the 1830s, when land speculator Edward Hanrick designed it, and is now home to over 100 houses in the Queen Anne architecture style.
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The speculator group raise its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 123,212 contracts to 290,2122, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said.
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The speculator group increased its combined futures and options net long position in New York and London by 2974,9373 contracts to 17,21 in the week to March 2171.
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Speculator bets on higher reached record highs in April, OPEC said in a report on Friday, but the oil cartel warned that fundamentally, oversupply still persisted in the market.
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The speculator group raised its combined net long futures and options position in two major NYMEX and ICE markets by 26,234 contracts to 639,539 in the week to Jan.
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If you're a Wall Street speculator who's shorting a stock, betting on its decline, then one of the best things that can happen is for Amazon to enter that business.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gave an initial response shortly afterwards, rejecting accusations Budapest was threatening the Central European University (CEU) and dismissing the Hungarian-born Soros as a "financial speculator".
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Speculator bets on higher Brent prices reached record highs in April, OPEC said in a report on today, but the oil cartel warned that fundamentally, oversupply still persisted in the market.
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The speculator group raised its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 37,960 contracts to 381,666 during the period, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 70,136 contracts to 284,942 during the period, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed.
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Beneath his expedient rhetoric, Douglas's main goal may have been to line the pockets of his speculator friends, who stood to reap immense profits from the development of a transcontinental railroad.
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When the media reported that Mr. Han had bought and sold luxury apartments in Taipei, the D.P.P. accused him of being a real estate speculator who profited from his political connections.
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The only question is who should get the money: the investors and performers and creators, or a speculator who managed to snap up the tickets the moment the box office opened?
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That isn't, obviously, a very satisfying answer to people, but that is actually very much the case in some of these situations right now, and sort of where is speculator activity.
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Soros, a Hungarian-born Wall Street speculator, came to national political prominence during the 2004 presidential cycle when he spent more than $18 million trying to defeat then-president George W. Bush.
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To the investor, the speculator, or the casual observer, the industry is in the midst of the "crypto winter" marked by dwindling public interest and stagnant prices after last year's massive plunges.
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Born into poverty in central China, Guo transformed himself from a humble gasoline speculator into a real estate mogul who jet-setted with the likes of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Written by Edwin Lefèvre, the novel follows a stockbroker named Lawrence Livingston, widely believed to be based on Jesse Livermore, a colorful speculator who rose from the era of street-corner bucket shops.
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Carr's Chicago is populated with an equally kaleidoscopic cast, including the actual land speculator John Stephen Wright and the fictional Antje Hunter, presented as the first female reporter for The Chicago Daily Tribune.
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Her story began before the city of Margate itself, a whimsy built in 1881 by a Philadelphia engineer and real estate speculator hoping to lure investors to empty marshland south of Atlantic City.
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As a type of speculator seeking to match buyers and sellers, scalpers adjust their prices to account for supply and demand in a way that box offices and venues choose not to do.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 50,937 contracts to 370,980 during the week to May 29, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said.
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It added that speculator bets on higher Brent prices reached record highs in April, their largest monthly advance in seven years, according to exchange data from ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) to the end of April.
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But look I'm not a great speculator and if you go back and you look at that interview you'd said I kind of said 50 50 but you know my guess is probably not.
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Orozco, in his role as market speculator (although he claims he wants to "avoid speculation" by big collectors), invented a convoluted pricing chart in order to bleed the show for as much as possible.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 1363,2136 contracts to 2853,28 in the week to May 8, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said.
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While some industry watchers play down the impact of flipping on the market, both Ontario and British Columbia are working with the Canada Revenue Agency to track investors who evade paying higher speculator taxes.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 17,166 contracts to 478,531 in the week to March 6, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said.
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Taihutto wants to secure the livelihoods of his family as a so-called day trader—in other words, a speculator who invests in cryptocurrency with the promise of high returns within a short time.
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Lefevre was actually Jesse Livermore, the "Great Bear of Wall Street" in the early twentieth century and his Reminiscences is a stock market classic, a hugely readable account of the career of a professional speculator.
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"Whether it's a speculator or a hedger looking to put a floor in place, the $35 strike price makes sense," said John Saucer, vice president of research and analysis at Houston-based Mobius Risk Group.
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The view of top exporter Saudi Arabia is that any brief, speculator-driven jump in oil prices is not sufficient grounds for producers to boost output, an OPEC source familiar with the kingdom's thinking said.
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In a strange twist, German police say the man suspected of bombing a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund football team was a speculator who had hoped to profit by sending shares in the team plummeting.
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Soros is generally considered the greatest speculator Wall Street has known, and though he stopped managing other people's money years ago, the reaction was a real-time display of his continued ability to move markets.
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That case involved a speculator who bought a plot, in 1999, knowing that there was a claim against it, made by a tenant farmer whose family had been working the land since 20003 without title.
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When Kelly was called before a legislative committee investigating him and his colleagues, he gave his occupation as "speculator" and looked every bit the financial magnate until he started talking about his Coney Island gambling ties.
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Short selling is an investment tactic by which a speculator borrows an asset such as a stock, and sells it in the hope of buying it back later at a lower price, thereby making a profit.
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Speculator bets on higher Brent prices reached all-time peaks last week, while bullish bets on WTI futures and options rose to 10-month highs, feeding investor views prices may have risen too far, too fast.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in two major NYMEX and ICE markets by 9,804 contracts to 294,392 in the week to August 15, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed.
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The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 31,037 contracts to 194,021 during the week to May 9, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.
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The agents can have different identities, like a hacker trying to grab as much money as they can, a faker filing false claims or a speculator that cares about maximizing coin price while ignoring its functionality.
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As it turned out, all the properties—and the various LLCs that owned them— were the responsibility of one man: a Houston millionaire named Scott Wizig, who had made his fortune as a real estate speculator.
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In choosing Mr. Ross to be the face of American business for the rest of the world, President-elect Donald J. Trump is turning not to a cautious corporate chieftain, but to a risk-taking speculator.
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Short selling is an investment tactic by which a speculator borrows a financial instrument, such as a stock, and sells it in the hope of buying it back later at a lower price, thereby making a profit.
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But after her death in 1797, her widowed husband, William Godwin, published a colorful biography that described Wollstonecraft's two suicide attempts; her affair with the American speculator Gilbert Imlay; and the birth of their daughter, Fanny Imlay.
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"The greatest evil that theatergoers in this city have to contend with is the ticket speculator," wrote a New York City magistrate in 1901, during the arraignment of a man caught hawking tickets outside the Garden Theater.
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Based on hedge fund and speculator positioning, selling momentum in the pound is greater now than at any point in five years, and the second-greatest since the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission started compiling data in 1995.
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The speculator group cut its net long combined futures and options position in New York and London by 9,344 contracts to 340,265 during the week to June 2336, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.
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Mr Shivaji has already sold about a quarter of his land to a speculator (he hid the money in a hole before India suddenly cancelled most banknotes two years ago, forcing him to come up with a better plan).
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President Donald Trump will draw on his roots as a "leveraged New York City real estate speculator," when making a decision on who should lead the Federal Reserve, closely followed market newsletter editor Jim Grant told CNBC on Thursday.
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A broader measure of speculator positioning that includes net contracts on the New Zealand dollar, Mexican peso, Brazilian real and Russian ruble, showed a net short position of $13.93 billion for the dollar, up from $13.36 billion last week.
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In 214, Howard Zinn, a historian, noted that conventional references to Jackson as "frontiersman, soldier, democrat, man of the people" painted a rather sanitised picture of a man who was also "slaveholder, land speculator, executioner of dissident soldiers, exterminator of Indians".
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Police initially suspected an Islamist motive after letters were found at the scene referencing the caliphate, but they later arrested a speculator who they say had hoped to profit from the bombing if it drove down the price of shares in the team.
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He was a major character in my book "Den of Thieves," which chronicles the rise and fall of Mr. Milken and his co-conspirator Ivan F. Boesky, the takeover speculator and model for the Gordon Gekko character in the "Wall Street" movies.
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He was a short-term speculator, who had built a vast personal fortune by placing high-volume bets on small movements in stock prices; he was often driven by earnings announcements and other such events, and maintained high returns, against the odds, year after year.
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"I know that the power, size and weight of Hungary is much smaller than that of the financial speculator, George Soros, who is now attacking Hungary," Prime Minister Viktor Orban told members of the European Parliament in Brussels, in a sarcastic but methodical speech.
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They included a Saudi prince teaming with a Singaporean billionaire, an Israeli speculator who carved up the hotel into condominiums and retail spaces, and an Indian con man who negotiated his financial exit from the most evil-smelling hospitality suite in the world, Delhi's notorious Tihar Jail.
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"We are up against media outlets maintained by foreign concerns and domestic oligarchs, professional hired activists, troublemaking protest organizers, and a chain of NGOs financed by an international speculator, summed up by and embodied in the name George Soros," as he put it in one speech.
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Today, while there are still many "for sale" signs around town, the mayor's office is often involved in ensuring that the buyer is not a speculator and sometimes even uses its limited budget to buy the houses to ensure their preservation, before working to find a good buyer.
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Once the sale went through, the speculator — now a co-owner of the property — would have the right to petition the courts to order a sale of the entire tract of land (against the wishes of those family members who lived on it) and would then buy it.
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Then consider a third possibility: "Crassus," the story of how a sordid real-estate speculator made a vast fortune as a Roman slumlord, rode both slave labor and the fear of slave rebellions to political influence, and leveraged his wealth to a share of power alongside his more dashing frenemies, Pompey and Caesar.
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After the war, as cotton prices plunged, it belonged to John Calhoun, namesake and descendant of the southern ideologue, and then to Austin Corbin: a robber-baron financier and railroad speculator, who, as a founding member of the American Society for the Suppression of the Jews, barred them from the hotel he built on Coney Island.
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Because Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 6900 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE, the candidate of the Democrats and many establishment Republicans lost to a TV personality and real estate speculator in a rebuke to the Beltway establishment.
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The book is a lively, though fictional, account of a high-flying speculator who was a cattle drover before coming to Wall Street and who, legend has it, was responsible for both the original meaning of "stock watering" (feeding your cattle salt and then bloating them with water before the weighing) and the later, trickier securities version.
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In essence, then, Gramm-Leach-Bliley removed or dramatically lowered nearly all of the previous century's barriers between Main Street depository banking institutions — the ones that hold your and my deposits, constitute our national payments system, and are in consequence insured by your and my government — on the one hand, and high-rolling Wall Street speculator institutions on the other hand.
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Collecting art can be like dealing in futures, and one could argue that the credentialed lawyer who bills hourly is acting as a kind of speculator and taking on all the risk when he trades for what is in a sense magically minted money — but on the other hand, it's the artist whose work has the potential to appreciate in market value.
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The proposition of "Birdcage Walk" is the following: Suppose Julia Fawkes had a daughter, let's call her Lizzie, raised on a diet of atheism and sedition, who turned her back on her beloved, radical mother to marry an ambitious builder and speculator, a man who has no patience with any rights that don't involve the free flow of capital investments, and whose definition of property includes his wife.
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"The exaltation of the common man (meaning, on the frontier, the settler and speculator hungry for Indian land), the sense of America as the redeemer nation destined for continental expansion, the open acceptance of racism as a justification not only for the enslavement of blacks but also for the expulsion of Native Americans — these were popular, politically powerful themes that would have driven any Democratic President to press for a policy of Indian removal," Wallace writes.
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Freedman rightly regards the Four Seasons, which opened in 1959, as an aesthetic and entrepreneurial triumph: a combination of the vision of the young Seagram heir Phyllis Lambert, who talked her father, Samuel Bronfman, into commissioning the most beautiful new building in New York for his headquarters; the partnership of the two men she chose to create it, Mies van der Rohe and Johnson, his on-site architect and designer; and the determination of the businessmen—Joe Baum, of Restaurant Associates, being the first and most determined—who nurtured its restaurant until a real-estate speculator took over the building and, this year, forced it to move out.
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