Sentence examples for speculative trader from inspiring English sources

When Michael, a speculative trader in the early 2000s, ruins half his family by carelessly borrowing their decades of savings, we feel privileged to have witnessed the sour rage and dispossession of his father as a small child in the 1920s, a thousand or so pages back, and to have understood what a lack of love will lead to, in the end.

The trader's move from back-office management to front-desk trading harks back to the infamous Nick Leeson, whose position as both general manager and speculative trader for Barings Bank in Singapore helped him hide losses of over £827 million ($1.6 billion).

This volatility may be a speculative trader's friend, but it has reinforced cryptos' reputation for being high-risk investments for the adrenalin-fuelled "get rich quick" brigade.

Speculative traders go where the action is hot.

This paper examines the behaviour of crude oil futures price and volatility, analyzes the relationship between speculative traders' positions and returns, and investigates whether speculative traders' position changes have a significant effect on crude oil price.

The commission's new measures are aimed at curtailing so-called speculative traders.

As we learned during the financial crisis, speculative traders looking for outsize returns can increase the volatility of company valuations.

On a macroeconomic level, developing countries are increasing production; while on a microeconomic level, speculative traders are becoming more involved in the market.

Mr. Azumi called the yen's climb "excessive," blaming speculative traders for the movements and warning that the movements did not reflect Japanese economic reality.

From mark-to-market accounting and illiquid products to credit-default swaps and speculative traders, the tendency for both booms and busts to feed on themselves has increased.

A reformed U.S. system would be characterized by long-term rather than permanent owners, well-informed rather than speculative traders, and flexible rather than life-time employees.