An interesting interview that Chairman and CEO of Interactive Brokers, Thomas Peterffy, had with CNBC pointed to a storm brewing as traders look to unwind bets and are
largely at the mercy of the market to do so.
Not exact matches
Whereas ancient man felt himself to be
at the
mercy of capricious forces seated beyond his control in an unseen world, Israel came to recognize that man himself has been given power and responsibility to act decisively, and that it is on his own moral decisions that his life and destiny
largely depend.
That's
largely because as a lone, online writer you're pretty much
at the
mercy of the publicity gods in terms of who you're going to meet up with and you never know who that's going to be.
Although we're not totally
at the market's
mercy — we can decide how much to put in stocks vs. bonds and how we react when the market sizzles or fizzles — we
largely must settle for the returns the markets deliver.