In many instances, these professionals are on
the opposite side of your trades, and on balance, they are going to beat you» Michael Steinhardt
Always look at things from your opponents point of view, as he is betting in the opposite direction that you are... remember there is always somebody on
the opposite side of your trade, wanting the market to go in the opposite direction and having equally strong convictions in their trade as you have in yours.
This means you can swing in one direction for a few days and then when you spot reversal patterns you can swap to
the opposite side of the trade.
But after reading a glob of articles criticizing buybacks, it makes me want to take
the opposite side of the trade.
Perhaps more specifically, a professional trader will typically be on
the opposite side of a trade than an amateur.
Since the primary driver of profits at these companies is proprietary trading, quite often investment bank traders will be on
the opposite side of trades from their shareholders, unknowingly or otherwise.
Markets makers do take
the opposite side of a trade, and may act as a buyer if you are a seller, or vice versa.
There are times when a market marker will take
the opposite side of your trade.
And so you seek other trading venues out away from the NYSE and NASDAQ, and occasionally you find you can get large trades done there when there is another large trader willing to take
the opposite side of your trade.
Risk can't be eliminated from the system, except to the extent that parties for one reason or another naturally want
the opposite side of a trade.
Some market participants do think that bond yields will inevitably rise but on
the opposite side of the trade are investors who think bond yields are not going anywhere.
The seller of the option contract receives the payment from the buyer and then takes on an obligation to take
the opposite side of the trade if the owner chooses to buy or sell the asset.
usually by taking
the opposite side of their trades.
But I don't recall an active management adherent ever mention that active management is also (simply by virtue of being on
the opposite side of the trades that active proponents so often reference) also more likely to significantly underperform a benchmark.
Buyers should have known that they were taking
the opposite side of the trade from Goldman.
John Picone, chair of the firm's Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation Group, added, «I met Jeff many years ago when we were on
opposite sides of a trade secret case.
Not exact matches
The Victoria's Secret model
traded in her bombshell blowout for a laid - back braid that, unlike most
of these looks, landed on the
opposite side of the part, giving it a more boho vibe.
Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Toby Jones, who portray Charles» supporters in this film, also star together in another period piece, Amazing Grace, where they find themselves on
opposite sides of the debate over England's involvement in the slave
trade.
The technique is to look for price action setups that form near the moving averages and place your stop loss just below the low / high
of the price action setup, which will likely be on the
opposite side of the moving average from the direction we are
trading.
If you start employing this logic from time to time, taking a step back and looking at the market from the
opposite side of the fence (the professionals
side) you may not only find some great
trading opportunities, you may start avoiding some bad
trades as well.
Making a practice, directly or indirectly,
of taking the
opposite side of the market to clients, or affecting a
trade for the advisor's own account prior to effecting a
trade for a client.
I'm willing to bet you've experienced one or both
of these things recently in your own
trading, and I'm also willing to bet that me or one
of my students probably took the
opposite side of one
of these
trades that seemed to «fake you out»
of your position...
Only if there are no other participants looking to
trade on the instrument at a better price than your limit (which,
of course they can see unless you enter it into a dark pool) AND there is a market order on the
opposite side of the book will your limit order be instantaneously be hit, executed, and move the market price.
Most fighters take place on a 2D plane
of some sort, moving from left to right or vice-versa towards the opponent on the
opposite side of the screen,
trading blows.
In blue orchids, Grimonprez creates a portrait diptych
of two experts on
opposite sides of the same issue ---- the global arms
trade.