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trader

ˈtreɪdər
WordNet
The Triumphant Harlequin and the Actionists. Harlequin scatters worthless shares from a wagon between the traders in the wind trade. In the background Vianen aan de Lek. In the caption a verse in 4 columns. Print in the hardback first edition (304 B 11) of Het Groote Tafereel der Fwaasheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720.
The Triumphant Harlequin and the Actionists. Harlequin scatters worthless shares from a wagon between the traders in the wind trade. In the background Vianen aan de Lek. In the caption a verse in 4 columns. Print in the hardback first edition (304 B 11) of Het Groote Tafereel der Fwaasheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720.
  1. (n) trader
    someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
Illustrations
Porcelain statue, painted on the glaze in enamel colors and gold. The image represents a market trader. He stands next to a barrel and carries a basket with a pitcher or a bottle on his arm. The pedestal is decorated with seed beads. Marked on the bottom with the lion and the monogram JAH [?] Of Joseph-Adam Hannong.
Image of a market trader
Desperate traders, victims of the wind trade, in the courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, 1720. In the center hangs a list of the products of the wind tradition. In the caption a verse in three columns by Bombario. Print in the hardback first edition (304 B 10) of Het Groote Tafereel der Fwaasheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720.
Desperate traders, victims of the wind trade, in the courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, 1720. In the center hangs a list of the products of the wind tradition. In the caption a verse in three columns by Bombario. Print in the hardback first edition (304 B 10) of Het Groote Tafereel der Fwaasheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720.
The Mallemolen of the World. A merry-go-round in which the wind traders, standing in the trays, try to get hold of stock notes, which figures (a farmer, Indians from the South Sea, Mississippi and the West Indies) are sprinkled on the pillars of the mill. In the foreground, other gentlemen are waiting for their whirlwind ride, right-wing desperate actionists. In the background left Vianen, right ships at sea. With caption in four columns by Philadelphus. Print in the hardback first edition (304 B 11) of Het Groote Tafereel der Fwaasheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720.
The Mallemolen of the World. A merry-go-round in which the wind traders, standing in the trays, try to get hold of stock notes, which figures (a farmer, Indians from the South Sea, Mississippi and the West Indies) are sprinkled on the pillars of the mill. In the foreground, other gentlemen are waiting for their whirlwind ride, right-wing desperate actionists. In the background left Vianen, right ships at sea. With caption in four columns by Philadelphus. Print in the hardback first edition (304 B 11) of Het Groote Tafereel der Fwaasheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720.
The fairground booth of the action traders. A large cart pulled by two toads and driven by Deceit on which ride Bombario (with hunchback) in harlequin dress, the devil with a bellows and a jester giving up shares. Around the cart and at the coffee house Quincampoix a large crowd of action traders panicked. On the right a gate with the arms of Haarlem, Amsterdam and Leiden to which the cart is denied access. In the caption a verse in four columns by Philadelphus. Print in the hardback first edition (304 B 10) of Het Groote Tafereel der Fwaasheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720.
The fairground booth of the action traders. A large cart pulled by two toads and driven by Deceit on which ride Bombario (with hunchback) in harlequin dress, the devil with a bellows and a jester giving up shares. Around the cart and at the coffee house Quincampoix a large crowd of action traders panicked. On the right a gate with the arms of Haarlem, Amsterdam and Leiden to which the cart is denied access. In the caption a verse in four columns by Philadelphus. Print in the hardback first edition (304 B 10) of Het Groote Tafereel der Fwaasheid with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720.
Richard Cobden and the free traders
Horse market on the Maliebaan in The Hague. On the left traders talk to each other, on the right a servant makes a horse trot for a while. In the background an open field with white tents.
Horse market on the Maliebaan in The Hague
Six Dutch men (wearing turban, big noses) are smelling the tea from wicker baskets in a Chinese warehouse in Canton, in the foreground a spotted dog. The performance closed at the top by the edge of a roof. Part of a group of four gouaches about the production and export of Chinese tea by the VOC around 1750.
The inspection of tea by the traders of the VOC
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
English traders introduced opium to China to create a market for the drug. They then traded silver for opium to help pay other Chinese traders for their tea.
  1. Trader
    A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Ghengis Kahn's first conquered land was an act of retaliation. Kahn sent a group of traders on a peaceful mission to Transoxiana. The governor there beheaded their leader and sent the others back to Kahn with their beards cut off. So Kahn attacked them and continued to onward until most of Asia and Europe were his.
  1. (n) trader
    One who is engaged in trade or commerce; one whose business is buying and selling, or barter; one whose vocation it is to buy and sell again personal property for gain. In the law of bankruptcy and insolvency much discussion as to the meaning of the term has resulted from the fact that several systems of such laws have applied different rules to traders, or merchants and traders, from those applicable to other persons. See merchant.
  2. (n) trader
    A vessel employed regularly in any particular trade, whether foreign or coasting: as, an East Indian trader; a coasting trader.
Quotations
Elbert Hubbard
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
Elbert Hubbard
Douglas William Jerrold
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
Douglas William Jerrold
Usage in the news

Stock market traders see Dow fall 54 points on weak data from construction and manufacturing. csmonitor.com

In this Oct 3, 2012, file photo, a trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. denverpost.com

The stake was held through energy trader Transcor Astra, which is 80 percent owned by Albert Frere 's Cie. Go To Businessweek.com. businessweek.com

Wall Street Traders 'Not Moved' by Geithner Speech. ashingtonpost.com

A trader sits on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after the closing bell Thursday. csmonitor.com

Trader With theGift of Gab . nytimes.com

Michael McCarthy, as he was known to his colleagues, was the tough, competitive trader, at 33 an assistant vice president at Carr Futures who worked from 2 am to 10 am, following the London exchanges. nytimes.com

Investigators Look at Whether Senior Banker Leaked Deals to Galleon Traders. online.wsj.com

Billionaire hedge fund trader Raj Rajaratnam, the key figure in an insider trading scandal that stretched from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison on Thursday. pcmag.com

Paris appeals court sends Societe Generale trader to prison, orders him to pay back $7 billion. foxnews.com

Former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel begins appeal. globalpost.com

The rogue trader started his appeal against a three-year jail sentence for his role in France's biggest trading scandal. globalpost.com

Former Société Générale trader Jerome Kerviel, right, arrives with his lawyer Olivier Metzner at Paris Court House for his trial, Wednesday. csmonitor.com

In this June, 4 2012 file photo, French trader Jerome Kerviel arrives at the Paris courthouse. tribtown.com

The Citigroup trader had a wonderful life - until the Feds decided to make an example of him. money.cnn.com

Usage in scientific papers

This is particularly important in order to avoid misleading interpretations that could consider the previously described set of information given to our traders as the weak form of Efficient Markets Hypothesis paradigm.
The beneficial role of random strategies in social and financial systems

Then if M (t) = I (t) − I (t − τM ) > 0, the trader predicts an increment of the closing index for the next day (i.e. it predicts that I (t + 1) − I (t) > 0) and vice-versa.
The beneficial role of random strategies in social and financial systems

Fig. 6 Volatility and average percentage of wins (inside each window and over 10 runs) for the three traders, as in Fig.4, but with an increasing quantity of randomness mixed with the MOM and the RSI strategies.
The beneficial role of random strategies in social and financial systems

In particular, we numerically simulated the performance of three trading strategies (one completely random and two chosen among the most popular ones adopted by traders) applied to the FTSE UK All-Share index series, chosen here as a case study, in order to compare their predictive capability.
The beneficial role of random strategies in social and financial systems

In this self-organized system, we consider only the interaction among traders without external influences.
A Prototype Model of Stock Exchange

Usage in literature

Influenced by these examples several traders, in the year 1740, went from Virginia to the country of the Cherokees. "Daniel Boone" by John S. C. Abbott

Theophilus Lillie, the Tory trader, who was mobbed during the tea excitement, was Major Lillie's uncle. "Tea Leaves" by Various

We succeeded in buying a fine lot of turtle shell from the trader, as well as some from the king and his mother. "Rídan The Devil And Other Stories" by Louis Becke

Ye see there's four other traders on this island besides me, and all my business has gone to them. "Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories" by Louis Becke

They were accompanied by two respectable-looking white men, who were resident traders on Drummond's Island. "Tessa" by Louis Becke

As a rule the English are the manufacturers and traders; the French people are the farmers. "Commercial Geography" by Jacques W. Redway

The Kuzaks were palavering with the occupants of two heavily-loaded trader rockets. "The Planet Strappers" by Raymond Zinke Gallun

Even the shops are closed and the traders armed to the teeth. "Four American Indians" by Edson L. Whitney

The trader's eyes almost started out of his head. "The Woman from Outside" by Hulbert Footner

An old term for the skipper of a Dutch trader. "The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth

Usage in poetry
And God did hear that mother's cry,
For never an ice-block sank;
While the cruel trader and his men
Stood wondering on the bank.
"Eliza Crossing The River" by Harriet Beecher Stowe Author object (275)
From her resting-place by the trader chased,
Through the winter evening cold,
Eliza came with her boy at last,
Where a broad deep river rolled.
"Eliza Crossing The River" by Harriet Beecher Stowe Author object (275)
A Trader with greed never sated,
Who barters the souls in his snares,
That were trapped in the lusts he created,
For incense and masses and prayers -
"A Toast" by Lola Ridge Author object (443)
Would to thy rainy office close
Thy will, or lock mine eyes from tears,
Part wept for traders'-woes,
Part for that ventures mean as those
In issue bind such sovereign hopes and fears.
"Individuality." by Sidney Lanier Author object (610)
YOU bring your love too late, dear, I have no love to buy it,
I spent my love on worthless toys, at fairs you do not know;
I am a bankrupt trader--dear eyes, do not deny it,
I could have bought your love, dear, but that was long ago.
"The Temptation" by Edith Nesbit Author object (157)
Whose traders came from the islands—from far off summer places,
Bringing spices and pearls, and the furs and skins of beasts.
Men from the frozen North, and men with fierce dark faces,
Full of the desert fire, and the untamed life of the East.
"The Burning of Chicago" by Kate Seymour Maclean