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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.
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Speculators may also buy common circulation coins for their intrinsic metal value.
In 1936 John Maynard Keynes wrote: " Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise.
Speculators and sell
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.
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.
Speculators made enormous profits by convincing whites to sell their homes at well-below market value, then reselling to blacks at much higher than market value.
Speculators and profit
Speculators, be they amateurs or commercial buyers, generally purchase coins in bulk and often act with the expectation of short-term profit.
Speculators and market makers are individuals or institutions that seek to profit from anticipated increases or decreases in a particular market price.
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 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 the warrants, purchased land, and sold the land in smaller lots to small farmers, at a huge profit.
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 and on
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 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 and which
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 hoard capital for the purpose of chasing higher rates, which in turn deprives the deployment of capital for productive purposes.
Speculators and investors
Speculators and investors then moved to Elgin, Oregon.
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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 paid for these purchases with depreciating paper money.
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.
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: The last part describes shareholders of the iron companies in Stockholm-the ups and downs before World War I.
Speculators also create a more competitive marketplace, keeping prices down for hedgers.
* Wills Boosters, Hustlers and Speculators St. Paul MN Hist.
may and sell
Now, if Morton's newest product, a corn chip known as Chip-o's, turns out to sell as well as its stock did, the stock may turn out to be worth every cent of the prices that the avid buyers bid it up to.
Starting with the player who caused the merger to happen, each player may either sell his shares in the acquired chain, trade in two shares of the acquired chain for one share of the acquiring chain, or hold on to his shares of the acquired chain.
Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.
Traders may, for example, find that the price of wheat is lower in agricultural regions than in cities, purchase the good, and transport it to another region to sell at a higher price.
As an example, if one was trying to profit from a price discrepancy between IBM on the NYSE and IBM on the London Stock Exchange, they may purchase a large number of shares on the NYSE and find that they cannot simultaneously sell on the LSE.
Beverage distributors ( which also sell soft drinks ) may sell beer and malt liquor, but not wine or hard liquor.
In Thailand, stores may not sell alcohol between midnight and 11am, or 2pm and 5pm.
Newcomers to a market may find it difficult to find loans, acquire shelf space, or receive official sanction to sell their product or services ; in technological fields, they may be accused of infringing on patents that the established competitors never assert against each other.
That is, a company may sell a printer at cost, and make profits on the ink cartridge, paper, or some other replacement part.
For example, a speculator may sell deep in-the-money naked calls on a stock, expecting the stock price to plummet, but exposing himself to potentially unlimited losses.
Individuals and institutions may also look for arbitrage opportunities, as when the current buying price of an asset falls below the price specified in a futures contract to sell the asset.
The Ethiopian constitution defines the right to own land as belonging only to " the state and the people ", but citizens may only lease land ( up to 99 years ), and are unable to mortgage, sell, or own it.
* statements assuming a combination of intention and probability (" they are moving ") to distinguish the likely series of events and dependencies (" if they can sell their house they might move to Agrestic or if they can't, to Gardendale ") in which the probability that an attempt to do something complex may fail is explicitly acknowledged and not assumed certain.
It is also a justification for free trade policies, since some economies of scale may require a larger market than is possible within a particular country — for example, it would not be efficient for Liechtenstein to have its own car maker, if they would only sell to their local market.
Standard line insurance companies usually charge lower premiums than excess line insurers and may sell directly to individual insureds.
An individual may effectually, but imperfectly, “ sell ” his vote on a particular issue to, in return, secure votes from other individuals on behalf of legislation he prefers ( Buchanan and Tullock 1962 ).
Equivalently, it is the lowest wage at which workers may sell their labor.
But the Arms Park site is a prime piece of real estate in the centre of Cardiff, which means that it may be difficult to sell the land to property developers.
This may be done to save duplication of effort, or to sell to others.
For example, as a lessee of a particular piece of property, you may not sell the property, because a tenant is only in possession and does not have title to transfer.
Alternatively, a customer may offer to pawn an item that is difficult to sell, such as a surfboard in an inland region, or a pair of snowshoes in tropical or sub-tropical regions.
Once passersby start shopping in the store, they may be more inclined to pawn or sell their own items to the pawnshop.
A pawnshop in a low-income neighborhood that pays a customer $ 300 for a power amplifier with a used value of $ 2000 may find the unit hard to sell alongside much less expensive merchandise.
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