Speculators may sell short in the hope of realizing a profit on an instrument which appears to be overvalued, just as long investors or speculators hope to profit from a rise in the price of an instrument which appears undervalued.

Speculators on the other hand, are interested in making a profit, and will hence only enter the contracts if they expect to make money.

Speculators bought houses they never intended to live in, expecting to make a huge profit in a matter of months then rolling it over by buying more properties.

Speculators may also buy common circulation coins for their intrinsic metal value.

Speculators paid for these purchases with depreciating paper money.

Speculators play one of four primary roles in financial markets, along with hedgers who engage in transactions to offset some other pre-existing risk, arbitrageurs who seek to profit from situations where fungible instruments trade at different prices in different market segments, and investors who seek profit through long-term ownership of an instrument's underlying attributes.

Speculators and market makers are individuals or institutions that seek to profit from anticipated increases or decreases in a particular market price.

Speculators bought the warrants, purchased land, and sold the land in smaller lots to small farmers, at a huge profit.

Speculators look to buy an asset in the future at a low price according to a derivative contract when the future market price is high, or to sell an asset in the future at a high price according to a derivative contract when the future market price is low.

Michael Tadman, in a 1989 book Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South, indicates that 60 – 70 % of interregional migrations were the result of the sale of slaves.

Speculators and market makers are key contributors to the liquidity of a market, or asset.

Speculators are particularly common in the markets for stocks, bonds, commodity futures, currencies, fine art, collectibles, real estate, and derivatives.

Speculators also perform a very important risk bearing role that is beneficial to society.

In 1936 John Maynard Keynes wrote: " Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise.

Speculators, led by Enron Corporation, were collectively making large profits while the state teetered on the edge for weeks and finally suffered rolling blackouts on January 17 and 18.

Speculators began making land entries in the area that became Walton Township as early as 1832.

Speculators began purchasing land in 1835 and actual settlement began by 1840.

Speculators and investors then moved to Elgin, Oregon.

# Speculators: The last part describes shareholders of the iron companies in Stockholm-the ups and downs before World War I.

Speculators from Italy rushed into the island and bought up large tracts of land at a low price, or became the occupiers of estates which had belonged to Sicilians of the Carthaginian party and had been forfeited to Rome after the execution or flight of their owners.

Speculators on futures price fluctuations who do not intend to make or take ultimate delivery must take care to " zero their positions " prior to the contract's expiry.

Speculators also create a more competitive marketplace, keeping prices down for hedgers.

* Wills Boosters, Hustlers and Speculators St. Paul MN Hist.

Speculators would then tell the white residents that property values would imminently fall and pressure the white families to sell their homes to the speculators.

If we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

`` Bury those uniforms so they won't be found ''.

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

`` Gyp'll be holdin' forth in some bar if he's here at all '', Cobb declared, glancing along the street as they stretched their legs.

What these fragments are and how they activate the go order may not be revealed.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.

Incapable of self-delusion, the Founding Fathers found the crisis of their time to be equally grave, and yet they had confidence that America would surmount it and that a republic of free peoples would prosper and serve as an example to a world aching for liberty.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

Since the homosexuals widely use marijuana, they do not have to be initiated.

Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;

the peonies, whose tight sticky buds would be blighted by the laying on of a finger, although they were not apparently harmed by the ants that crawled over them ; ;

More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.

morning-glory buds which could be so grasped and squeezed that they burst like a blown-up paper bag ; ;

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.