Sentences with phrase «by betting against»

Since Monday, short sellers, who profit when share prices fall, have gained about $ 1.76 billion by betting against Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google (FAANG)-- recouping almost 30 % of their losses from casting a skeptical eye over high - fly high tech stocks this year, according to Ihor Dusaniwsky, Head of Predictive Analytics at S3 Partners.

Another thought: why hedge by betting against the market when you could work on stricter portfolio management strategies?

The only thing they all have in common is that the investor intends to make money by betting against the underlying company, typically by anticipating a decrease in the price of the company's common stock.

New Yorkers, especially those laid off at companies like Sikorsky and Welch Allyn, deserve to know if their Senator is getting richer at their expense by betting against their future and profiting from her support of disastrous economic policies.»

Will Wenger go down like Julian Robertson, who, by betting against the tech bubble too early, proved the maxim that «the market can stay wrong longer than you can stay solvent».

By betting against the public, contrarian bettors are able to capitalize on these shaded lines.

By betting against (fading) those popular teams, contrarian bettors would have actually earned +30.71 units with a 6.5 % return on investment (ROI).

Over the past few years, we have constantly explained that bettors can take advantage of public perception by betting against ranked teams — but what happens when two ranked teams square off?

Since tankers care about their actual record, not their ATS record, perhaps we can find some more potential profits by betting against them straight up.

By betting against the public in these marquee matchups, contrarian bettors are able to get free points based purely on public perception.

Taking advantage of shaded lines is one of the fundamental strategies we use to increase value by Betting Against the Public.

Sharp bettors wait for these market overreactions and take advantage by betting against the Pacific Time Zone teams, knowing they only cover the spread at a rate of 29.6 %.

That's all well and good, but there are other situations in which money can be made by betting against the public.

-- Over the weekend we detailed how bettors could profit by betting against the public on MLB totals.

Short winning streaks tend to even themselves out and by betting against these hot teams, you have an edge.

MLB - The All - Star break is over but get ready for the second half of the season with our 2014 Mid-Season Report, detailing how to profit by betting against the public.

Our past research has conclusively proven that by betting against the public, contrarian bettors are able to capitalize on these artificially inflated lines.

We had uncovered a slight edge by betting against the public, but it wasn't profitable.

This ideology is exemplified by our betting against the public systems, but there are countless ways to employ a contrarian betting strategy.

The tables below display the records and units won that bettors would have earned by betting against the Cy Young winner in the season after taking home the award.

«Who has ever benefited during the past 238 years by betting against America?

Einhorn later acknowledged that his Greenlight Capital Inc. had made a profit by betting against Herbalife.

And the DOJ has dropped its criminal probe into allegations stemming from a 635 - page Congressional report that described how Goldman profited by betting against clients and appeared to have misled customers.

Some investors, recalling how a few bold hedge funds became rich and famous by betting against the U.S. housing market, now are attempting to repeat the trick in Canada.

That was John Paulson, who made a name for himself by betting against sub-prime mortgages ahead of the financial crisis.

Not exact matches

Chinese bets against the renminbi have snowballed since Beijing let it fall by 2 % against the dollar in August 2015, the first revaluation in years.

It amounts to a counterintuitive bet: a passive music service delivered by cable firms and operated with financial discipline can win against flashy VC - backed on - demand streaming companies.

Many investors who had been betting against Fossil by selling its shares «short» had to buy up Fossil shares to cover their bet in a so - called short squeeze, compounding the impact of the strong results.

They're paying the lowest premium in nearly three years to protect against a 10 % decline in Nvidia's stock over the next three months, relative to bets on a 10 % increase, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

While this decision by shareholders seems to affirm their confidence in Musk and his vision, Vilas Capital is betting against Tesla, with Thompson predicting the company will crash in the next three - to - six months due to problems delivering on the Model 3 and falling demand for the Model S and X.

On Monday, Cramer wanted investors to keep an eye on the risky, leveraged funds that enable traders to bet against volatility, defined as the amount of uncertainty in the size and direction of changes in the market and most commonly tracked by the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX.

NEW YORK, April 3 - Investors raised their bets against Tesla Inc shares by 10 percent since mid-March, according to data provided by S3 Partners LLC on Tuesday, betting the market was too optimistic on the electric car maker's prospects.

NEW YORK, April 3 - Investors raised their bets against Tesla Inc shares by 10 percent since mid-March on the view that the market was too optimistic on the electric car maker's prospects, financial analytics firm S3 Partners said on Tuesday.

LONDON, April 12 - Cryptocurrency prices jumped on Thursday, led by a surge in bitcoin to two - week highs, with people active in the market citing a squeeze on traders who have bet against prices, given a lack of obvious news to trigger the gains.

By allocating your investments between the Security Bucket and the Risk Bucket, you hedge your bets against market volatility, which is unavoidable.

Maverick Capital, the $ 10.5 billion hedge fund run by Lee Ainslie, is betting big against the smartphone market.

Short selling is a practice in which traders can bet against a company by selling shares they don't own and buying them back at a lower price.

They've grown bets against Blue Apron to $ 69.3 million this month, up 12 % since the end of September, according to data compiled by financial - analytics firm S3 Partners.

By being turned over to these banks to settle their bets against the government, the IMF loan proceeds financed capital flight.

Cohodes opined that both Equitable and Home Capital Group Inc. — the other Canadian mortgage lender he's betting against — would be unlikely to pass stress tests required by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI).

Now with the post-Brexit impact that has seen the RMB strengthening by close to 10 % against the British Pound, Chinese tourists are already flocking towards the UK.22 In fact, Chinese demand for UK properties have surged post-Brexit as well, so you can bet that the UK will be on the list for Chinese this Golden Week.

The unique feature that drives many towards Ethbet is that it will be the first Ethereum - based platform to allow players to bet directly against each other, a feature not yet offered by any of its competitors.

He also rejected to bet against the virtual currency market by saying that «Why in the world should I take a long or short position of something I don't know anything about?»

Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

I seen a Nigerian Gooner losing his house for real when he bet against a Manu fan, and I actually think Arsenal getting beat by that lot hurt worse than him losing his house.

It's worth noting that although home - field advantage has been historically overvalued by college football bettors, the exact opposite is true when betting against the public.

The best - value bets can often be found by going against these teams because the oddsmakers adjust the line to reflect the expected weight of public money; so that the underdog is often quested at better odds or receives a larger point spread than is warranted.

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Minnesota hasn't received more than 69 % of spread bets since hiring Zimmer, which is amazing considering they have played against many teams that are typically avoided by public bettors including Miami, Oakland, Tampa Bay and Tennessee.