Noun
One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.
One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. Bernard Baruch
The speculator is not an investor. Edwin Lefèvre
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. Bernard Baruch
He was a major character in my book “Den of Thieves,” which chronicles the rise and fall of Mr. Milken and his co-conspirator Ivan F. Boesky, the takeover speculator and model for the Gordon Gekko character in the “Wall Street” movies. Source: Internet
Comic book collecting was enjoying a marked upswing at the time, fueled by the speculator boom looking for the next hot book that would jump in value after its release. Source: Internet
In Philadelphia, for instance, Hahnemann Hospital, which had served that city's poorest patients for by a real-estate speculator who then attempted to extract a million dollars a month from the local government to reopen it. Source: Internet