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My sitting tight

Portuguese translation: minha paciência

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English term or phrase:My sitting tight
Portuguese translation:minha paciência
Entered by: lmrocha

17:18 May 20, 2017
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
English term or phrase: My sitting tight
Patience is important not only in waiting for the right trades, but also in staying with trades that are working. The failure to adequately profit from correct trades is a key profit-limiting factor. Quoting again from Lefevre in Reminiscences, "It never was my thinking that made big money for me. It was always my sitting.

Got that? My sitting tight!" Also, recall Eckhardt's comment on the subject: "One common adage ... that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large lasses, professionals go broke by taking small profits."
lmrocha
Brazil
Local time: 19:28
minha paciência
Explanation:
"to sit tight" é um verbo frasal que significa esperar ou aguardar com paciência, ou não fazer nada, não agir. Às vezes, exige firmeza, como no caso acima, quando a pessoa tem a vontade de agir mas sabe que a melhor estratégia é de esperar o momento certo.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2017-05-20 22:30:16 GMT)
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Pelo contexto, o autor está explicando que muitos corretores deixam de ganhar mais dinheiro porque, quando o título comprado começa valorizar, eles vendem antecipadamente, em vez de esperar uma valorização maior (sitting tight!). Portanto, paciência é importante com transações que estão se valorizando, para esperar um lucro maior.
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Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 19:28
Grading comment
obrigada
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2minha persistência constante
Teresa Freixinho
4 +2minha paciência
Martin Riordan
3 +2Meu posicionamento firme
Mario Freitas
4 +1ficando firme
Katarina Peters
4aguardar sem agir
airmailrpl
4minha tenacidade
Danik 2014


  

Answers


7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
my sitting tight
Meu posicionamento firme


Explanation:
Sugestão

Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 19:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 663

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  expressisverbis
3 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Sandra!
agree  Danik 2014
1 day 58 mins
  -> Obrigado, Dani!
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
my sitting tight
ficando firme


Explanation:
eu fico firme, à espreita

Katarina Peters
Canada
Local time: 18:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 105

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  expressisverbis
3 hrs
  -> obrigada, expressisverbis!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
my sitting tight
minha persistência constante


Explanation:
sugestão

Teresa Freixinho
Brazil
Local time: 19:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 108

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  expressisverbis
2 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Sandra!
agree  Danik 2014
23 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Danik!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
my sitting tight
minha paciência


Explanation:
"to sit tight" é um verbo frasal que significa esperar ou aguardar com paciência, ou não fazer nada, não agir. Às vezes, exige firmeza, como no caso acima, quando a pessoa tem a vontade de agir mas sabe que a melhor estratégia é de esperar o momento certo.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2017-05-20 22:30:16 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Pelo contexto, o autor está explicando que muitos corretores deixam de ganhar mais dinheiro porque, quando o título comprado começa valorizar, eles vendem antecipadamente, em vez de esperar uma valorização maior (sitting tight!). Portanto, paciência é importante com transações que estão se valorizando, para esperar um lucro maior.

Example sentence(s):
  • to keep the same position or be unwilling to move or act. "The best thing to do is to sit tight and see if things improve"
  • to wait; to wait patiently. (This does not necessarily refer to sitting.)

    Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sit
    Reference: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/sit+tight
Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 19:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 485
Grading comment
obrigada

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  expressisverbis: No Brasil, também utilizam "paciência de Jó"? (Significa ter muita paciência).
2 hrs
  -> Obrigado!
agree  Matheus Chaud: Mais uma referência que confirma essa interpretação: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sit_tight ==> to sit tight = to wait patiently
6 hrs
  -> Obrigado! E pela confirmação.
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
sitting tight
aguardar sem agir


Explanation:
sitting tight => aguardar sem agir

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 19:28
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 204
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1 day 1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
my sitting tight
minha tenacidade


Explanation:
Sugestão

Danik 2014
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 106
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