Not exact matches
The market started off the year as it
ended 2017,
on a tear
higher, then the brief
crash in early February, which led to a nice calm recovery during the remainder of the month just to run into what I
'm calling «Whipsaw March» with the market jumping
higher and lower by more than 1 % nearly every other day.
HOT SPOT 2 Banzai Pipeline With waves two stories
high crashing into water as shallow as two feet, the Banzai Pipeline
is the most infamous break
on the North Shore of Oahu; it
's also the site of the season -
ending men
's event of the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour.
The Institute's research
on the effects of front
crash prevention
on police - reported
crashes found that vehicles with forward collision warning and automatic braking had a 20 percent
higher rate of
being rear -
ended than vehicles without the systems.
Great trends
are often self - fulfilling, meaning they tend to continue
higher or lower, often just by the very fact that the longer they persist the more traders jump
on - board, until the very weakest hands
are on - board right before the trend comes
crashing to an
end.
Given that this portfolio began at the
end of the bull, then went through the
crash and came out again, shouldn't this result
be much
higher given that the bulk of the investments must have happened while the market
was on its way down, at rock bottom, and then back up again?
Not only that, but unlike way too many games it
is highly polished with few
crashes or bugs, works very well across platforms, and scales well
on low — or
high -
end PCs.
As the movie delves into the
high stakes gambles investors
were making
on high - risk and generally opaque financial structures such as RMBS and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) it
is fitting that the story line takes a bit of a side trip from Wall Street to Las Vegas, which
ended up as one of the markets worst hit by the resulting
crash.