Favorite movie qoutes that apply to trading

From Rogue Trader

What's the action, mate? - You tell me.
The market's up and down like a tart's knickers.


Always makes me chuckle.

 

"Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Very, very bad."

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"That guy doesn't know live stock from preferred stock"

Geko

 

"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place" -- G. Gekko

 

After John Travolta, in Pulp Fiction, crashes his Chevelle into his drug dealer's house, the drug dealer comes out screaming "Have you lost your fucking mind?"

I have a .wav file of that that years ago, as a joke, I used to use as a sound whenever I executed a trade. Of course, the answer was usually Yes.

 

First principles, Clarice. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature?

Hannibal Lecter,Silence of the Lambs

 

"Every battle is won before it is ever fought. Sun-tzu, The Art of War." Wall Street

"If something's worth doing, it's worth doing for money." Wall Street

"Me, I want what's coming to me."
"What's coming to you Tony?"
"The World chico... and everything in it..." Scarface

"There is no spoon..." The Matrix (know what's real)

"Temet Nosce" "Know Thyself" The Matrix

"Try Not. Do or Do Not. There is no Try." Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

"You remember lesson about balance, Daniel-san? Lesson not just Karate, lesson for Whole Life." The Karate Kid

"Revenge is a dish best served cold." Man on Fire

Jules quote from Pulp Fiction isn't actually Ezekiel 25:17. It was combined with Psalm 23 and heavily edited by Tarantino.

Psalm 15 - excerpt was used in TV mini-series Lonesome Dove
O LORD, who may abide in your tent?
Who may dwell on your holy hill?
Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right,
and speak the truth from their heart;
who do not slander with their tongue,
and do no evil to their friends,
nor take up a reproach against their neighbors;
in whose eyes the wicked are despised,
but who honor those who fear the LORD;
who stand by their oath even to their hurt;
who do not lend money at interest,
and do not take a bribe against the innocent.
Those who do these things shall never be shaken.

 

Damn, I forgot one. "Nothing exceeds like excess. You of all people should know that Tony." Scarface

 

I agree.

 

From: THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES

Bounty Hunter : "A man's got to do something for a living these days."
Josey Wales : "Dying ain't much of a living, boy."

For trading dying could be read as losing.


"When things look bad, and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb mad dog mean. Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win, that's just the way it is."