Sentences with phrase «blindfolded monkeys»

She says in essence, that «a team of blindfolded monkeys throwing darts» could predict book sales as well as any individual or philosophy or theory could.

Burton Malkiel, a strong believer in the efficient market hypothesis, and known for his book «A Random Walk Down Wall Street» wrote that «a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.»

The fun premise of this book is that it suggests that a «blindfolded monkey» would have as much luck selecting an investment portfolio as a professional trader would.

According to a famous example (from before the days when most people got stock quotes from the internet), it is said that a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at the stock listings page of the newspaper could do as good a job picking stocks as a diligent analyst.7

In his popular personal finance book arguing that investors can't consistently beat the market (A Random Walk Down Wall Street), economist Burton Malkiel says that «a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.»

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Investing so simple that it would make a blindfolded, dart - throwing monkey insanely jealous.