Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.
People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.
It bothers me when people spoil the market.
We're talking to every third-party supplier every day of the week, and our traders are talking to them and buying products from them. When we're doing that, we see opportunities which no one else sees.
Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.
I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.