If the assets used are not identical ( so a price divergence makes the trade temporarily lose money ), or the margin treatment is not identical, and the trader is accordingly required to post margin ( faces a margin call ), the trader may run out of capital ( if they run out of cash and cannot borrow more ) and go bankrupt even though the trades may be expected to ultimately make money.

" Friedman did not believe that the trader should be required to make his trade known to the public, because the buying or selling pressure itself is information for the market.

" What are we to make, then, of trader Henry Francis Fynn's statement that once the Zulu army reached hard and stony ground in 1826, Shaka ordered sandals of ox-hide to be made for himself?

Any trader worth his or her salt will know the Greeks and make a choice of which Greeks to hedge to limit exposure.

Early examples simply featured hammocks and a stove in the hold of a trader, but boatbuilders soon began to make craft specifically for pleasure sailing and holidays, using the same hull and rig design but incorporating living quarters instead of a cargo hold.

The profit or loss for a trader will typically be no more than 10 % of the total amount of his combined back and lay stakes, so to make meaningful amounts of money a trader needs to commit a relatively large amount of capital.

" The placard caught Hall's attention, and he chose the trader to make a deal.

Tom Fitzpatrick, a mountain man and fur trader with the RMF, rode to Crow camps on Tongue River with a band of about 30 other trappers to trade for furs and to ask permission of the chiefs to make his fall hunt in their country.

These would raise less suspicion than Europeans, and might be able to make observations disguised as a trader or a lama ( holy man ).

Voters may chose from a choice of candidates: Ma Ranger, the mother of the Kokanee ranger ; Micheal Baystreet a Gordon Gecko-like TSX day trader ; Cory, a Ski instructor who has skied the Rockies since the ' 80s and needs some responsibility ; Beer Fridge 2. 0, a beer cooler with a lock ; Glacier and Fresh, a Starsky and Hutchesque buddy duo eager to make their mark by stopping Sasq's crime wave ; and " Glacier Goat " a foul mouthed cantankerous goat.

Lü Fang was a medicine trader and he made a loss in Shandong and had no money to make his journey home.

The twist comes when O ' Rourke is sold to a slave trader who is very savvy and intent on taking him down south to make a profit.

A day trader is actively searching for potential trading setups ( that is, any stock or other financial instruments that, in the judgment of the day trader, is in a tension state, ready to accelerate in price in either direction, that when traded well has a potential for a substantial profit ).

High-volume issues such as Intel or Microsoft generally have a spread of only $ 0. 01, so the price only needs to move a few pennies for the trader to cover his commission costs and show a profit.

The seller delivers the underlying asset to the buyer, or, if it is a cash-settled futures contract, then cash is transferred from the futures trader who sustained a loss to the one who made a profit.

A trader operates similarly to an arbitrageur, but is willing to take on extra risk and bet on events where no immediate profit is possible.

If the event does not occur then no money is lost, alternatively if a trader is able to lay a higher stake at shorter odds than his back stake then he can theoretically guarantee the same amount of profit regardless of the outcome.

Furthermore, for a trader or arbitrageur to combine different exchanges and / or bookmakers for a profit requires a substantial price differential if a profit is in fact to be made once the exchange's commission is taken into account.

The British owned Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ), a leading fur trader, constructed a number of large forts / trading posts in the vast Oregon Territory to profit, specifically, from the beaver trade.

If the trader is on the winning side of a deal, his contract has increased in value that day, and the exchange pays this profit into his account.

A rogue trader is a highly placed insider nominally authorised to invest sizeable funds on behalf of the bank ; this trader secretly makes progressively more aggressive and risky investments using the bank's money, when one investment goes bad, the rogue trader engages in further market speculation in the hope of a quick profit which would hide or cover the loss.

The trader ’ s gross profit / loss follows the ‘ all or nothing ’ principle.

A typical feature of CFD trading is that profit and loss and margin requirement is calculated constantly in real time and shown to the trader on screen.

Luckily, head trader Marty Stephens saves the day by making a large profit for the bank selling the issue into a cool market.

On election day the Blue Party wins 42. 5 % of the popular vote, and the trader realizes a profit of 3. 2 cents, an 8. 1 % return on investment.

The trader has now $ 1. 05 and has made a profit of 5 cents on an investment of $ 1.

Eventually a carry trade developed in which money was borrowed from Japan, invested for returns elsewhere and then the Japanese were paid back, with a nice profit for the trader.

At this apparent slight, R. Ḥiyya manifested chagrin, and R. Abbahu hastened to comfort him by comparing himself to the pedler of glittering fineries that always attracted the eyes of the masses, while his rival was a trader in precious stones, the virtues and values of which were appreciated only by the connoisseur.

Distracted by hostilities elsewhere in the archipelago, such as Ambon and Ternate, the Portuguese did not return until 1529 ; a Portuguese trader Captain Garcia landed troops in the Bandas.

Cowry shells being used as money by an Arab trader.

The French finally acquired the islands through a cunning mixture of strategies, including the policy of ' divide and conquer ', chequebook politics and a serendipitous affair between a sultana and a French trader that was put to good use by the French, who kept control of the islands, quelling unrest and the occasional uprising.

Arndt, a trader, arrived in town just before an epidemic of the Black Death plague and became one of the city's wealthiest men by purchasing the property of families who fled the epidemic.

They were accompanied by a fifteen-year-old Shoshone Indian woman, Sacagawea, the wife of a French-Canadian fur trader.

The largest of these posts was founded in 1840 at Nkhotakota by an Arabic trader from the coast, Jumbe Salim Bin Abdalla.

The Netherlands, which had become the financial center of Europe by being its most efficient trader, had little interest in seeing trade restricted and adopted few mercantilist policies.

An assessment by a commodity trader that a war is more likely vs. less likely sends prices up or down, and signals other traders of that opinion.

Islam was brought to the Sulu Archipelago in the 14th century by Makhdum Karim, an Arab trader, and to Mindanao island by Rajah Kabungsuwan, a Malaccan nobleman.

The first recorded visits by Europeans to Zambia were the Portuguese Manuel Caetano Pereira ( a trader of mixed Goanese and Portuguese descent ) in 1796 and Francisco de Lacerda ( an explorer ) in 1798.

When a trader from Georgia approached Brodess about buying Rit's youngest son, Moses, she hid him for a month, aided by other slaves and free blacks in the community.

An example was the superinjunction raised in September 2009 by Carter-Ruck solicitors on behalf of oil trader Trafigura, prohibiting the reporting of an internal Trafigura report into the 2006 Côte d ' Ivoire toxic waste dump scandal.

1580 a small fort, Skansin, was built by the Faroese naval hero and trader Magnus Heinason at the north end of the harbour.

Vasco da Gama's request for permission to leave a factor behind him in charge of the merchandise he could not sell was turned down by the King, who insisted that da Gama pay customs duty — preferably in gold — like any other trader, which strained the relation between the two.

They were led initially by John Gantt, a former U. S. Army Captain and fur trader who was contracted to guide the train to Fort Hall for $ 1 per person.

According to his own declarations, he became friendly with a wealthy trader named Henry Hope Stanley, by accident: he saw Stanley sitting on a chair outside his store and asked him if he had any job opening for a person such as himself.

It was named in 1787 by the maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley, captain of the Imperial Eagle, for Juan de Fuca, the Greek navigator who sailed in a Spanish expedition in 1592 to seek the fabled Strait of Anián.

By the late 19th century the Catholic tradition cited the signing in the " Maison des Tourelles ", home of prosperous Spanish trader André Ruiz ; it was destroyed by bombing in World War II.

Acknowledging that details of Lafitte's first twenty years are sparse, Davis speculates that Lafitte spent much time at sea as a child, probably aboard ships owned by his father, a known trader.

One such trader, Hober Mallow, becomes powerful enough to challenge and win the seat of Mayor and by cutting off supplies to a nearby region, also succeeds in adding more planets to the Foundation's reach.

Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them — Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby ’ s maid Eliza — to a slave trader.

When James discovers in horror that his father is a slave trader, he frees the slaves on the ship and overthrows the ship's captain ( who then is killed by Electra ), and then murders the quartermaster with a metal hook.