Sentences with phrase «durations of long periods»

As much as success is possible, one will be faced with constant losses (however successful trend followers try to keep them small) and durations of long periods of times that are unprofitable.

Not exact matches

After the investment period has ended, the fund legally is not allowed to make new investments, it should be spending the remainder of the fund duration (funds are usually ten years long with a few one year extensions) harvesting its investments for liquidity.

The duration of a rate lock depends on the agreement you arrive at with your lender; usually it lasts for 30 or 60 days, but a lock can be issued for longer periods of time if the underlying deal being funded is more complex and requires more time to close.

Traditionally, shorter duration funds have outperformed longer duration funds in periods of rising rates.

We currently intend to have 24 - month offerings with multiple purchase periods (of approximately six months in duration) per offering, except that the first purchase period under our first offering may be shorter or longer than six months, depending on the date on which the underwriting agreement relating to this offering becomes effective.

If you understand how interest is calculated over the duration of the loan period and how quickly it can add up, you might be able to save some money in the long run.

The Zweig bond model kept investors invested in long - duration bond ETFs over that challenging period, when the majority of analysts were calling for higher rates.

Long - term bonds saw the worst returns during these periods, which makes sense given their higher duration (thus higher volatility and magnitude of loss).

You should also note a bond's duration, which Vanguard explains «represents a period of time, expressed in years, that indicates how long it will take an investor to recover the true price of a bond, considering the present value of its future interest payments and principal repayment.»

Longer ‐ term bonds carry a longer or higher duration than shorter ‐ term bonds; as such, they would be affected by changing interest rates for a greater period of time if interest rates were to incLonger ‐ term bonds carry a longer or higher duration than shorter ‐ term bonds; as such, they would be affected by changing interest rates for a greater period of time if interest rates were to inclonger or higher duration than shorter ‐ term bonds; as such, they would be affected by changing interest rates for a greater period of time if interest rates were to increase.

The increasing weight of your baby in your lower abdomen does not help, especially if you are doing things around the home or at work where you have to sit for long periods of time or are on your feet for some duration.

For the duration of her pregnancy, it should be her call, no one should have any qualms on how she runs her life during the gestational period, as long as she is taking care of her unborn baby.

Prenatal maternal education and environmental support that extends into the postnatal period can promote longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding [38].

Prenatal maternal education and environmental lactation support that extends into the postnatal period can promote longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding.

Although there were insufficient data to explore the influence of the duration of feeding, exclusively breastfed persons are likely to represent a group who are breastfed for longer periods: ie, median breastfeeding durations of 4 — 9 mo were reported among the 3 studies with available data (24, 33, 35, 40).

[38] A longer period of breastfeeding is associated with a shorter duration of some middle ear infections (otitis media with effusion, OME) in the first two years of life.

An earlier study analysing the duration of antipsychotic treatment in the same study population found that the use of antipsychotics in patients with Alzheimer's disease continues for a significantly long period.

Feb. 17, 2016 — Astronomers have discovered an unnamed pair of stars that sets a new record for both the longest duration stellar eclipse (3.5 years) and longest period between eclipses (69 years) in a binary system.

Both longer duration, moderate - intensity exercise and shorter periods of high - intensity exercise increase the size and number of mitochondria inside muscle cells and their efficiency.

I can see how a longer course of anabolic signaling could translate to longer duration of strength and mass gains during long periods of detraining.

This is more important the longer the duration of the fasting period.

In his 2010 review, acclaimed expert in the field of training periodization, Vladimir Issurin, lists a concentrated focus on obtaining training adaptations as one of his 5 key factors affecting the duration of short - term training residual adaptations.9 What scientists have noticed is that longer term training adaptations will remain at a heightened level for a given period after training cessation.

Due to its short duration of 3 - 7 minutes, micro courses also make sure that your learners aren't distracted from their jobs for a long period.

Since the global financial crisis, growth stocks have outperformed value stocks for an unusually long stretch; in fact, this period marks the longest duration of value underperformance on record.1

Since longer - term interest rates are considered more representative of real estate financing costs, we compared how REITs with different lease durations performed in periods of increasing 10 - year U.S. Treasury Bond yields, based on month - end data.

A client's age and liquidity needs are particularly important when considering Indexed Option periods of longer duration.

I would recommend locking in long duration (30 year fixed rates) loans if you plan to live in your home for an extended period of time.

Many refinanced mortgages will offer a lower home mortgage refinance rate, but the duration of the contract will be for a longer period of time than the existing mortgage.

Usually it's small duration, because any technical signal I have will dissipate over too long a period of time.

So while this type of CD typically has higher yields, there will be no payments made for the duration of the CD term which is usually for longer periods, as the interest will be reinvested together with the principal.

If you opt to refinance to obtain a longer repayment period, however, your monthly payments will decrease, but the total amount of money you pay over the duration of your loan will increase.

For instance, financial guarantee contracts are reported for regulatory purposes as property and casualty insurance, normally considered short - duration, but have elements of long - duration contracts in that they are irrevocable and extend over a period that may be in excess of 30 years.

From the table above, we are able to see that the long - term historical duration estimate correctly projected the direction of the period return; but in all three time periods, the actual return was of greater magnitude than the expected return.

Because the interest rate is set for a period of time that may be as long as thirty years, the borrowers annual payments will remain unchanged for the duration of the time you hold the loan.

A longer - maturity investment generally has longer interest rate duration because the investment's fixed rate is locked in for a longer period of time.

It usually makes sense for policyholders to pay at the longest period allowed — thus, thinking about premium reserves as having a duration of half a year on average makes sense.

There are a few behaviors do take a long time to develop, such as loose leash walking (due to distractions inherent in the behavior), or settle (due to adding duration to the behavior), but your dog should be experiencing success at each step of the way and not getting stuck for long periods at a certain spot.

Increase the behavior's duration, by rewarding him for longer periods of time.

For example we can compare the BritRail Pass which has a Consecutive Pass validity of 3 travel days, where you would be traveling by train every day for the duration of the pass, or a Flexi Pass validity of 3 travel days within 2 months, where you can choose the specific days you want to travel within the longer period given.

Mice were then subjected to the faux highway air over long periods of time — similar durations that humans breathe the stuff in throughout their daily lives.

I do tend to think it was the coldest period in latter part of Holocene but not as cold as graph seems to indicate - and I thought severity of cool conditions was partially due to the longer duration of the cooler period, roughly 5 + centuries of cooler conditions

Reconstructions of California climate suggest that meteorological droughts lasting multiple decades are not uncommon over the past 1000 years, while there is evidence that dry periods of even longer duration occurred in California's deeper geological past.

This corresponds to stands composed of a fragmented cover (< 10 %) of black spruce trees and shrubs — i.e. sites burned only once during a long period, but of unknown duration, of the Holocene.

(i) Fire - free sites are those sites without charcoal macrofossils beneath, in, and on the current organic horizon (corresponding to 10 % of the surface of the study area) and with stands composed of a dense cover (generally > 40 %) of black spruce trees and shrubs — i.e. sites free of fire disturbance during a long period, but of unknown duration, of the Holocene.

If the models all produce 40 - 70 yr period oscillations, and if those oscillations are out of phase, model to model, then the answer might be indeterminate from the models, or else a very long duration (maybe hundreds of years.)

(I regret BEST land - only is the only dataset I have easy access to that is long enough in duration to show three or more successive periods of the supposed 60 year or longer «waves»; however, on all of the datasets longer than 120 years, the claimed waves degenerate, and the appearance of acceleration for pretty much any proposed period longer than 50 years persists across all global datasets.)

The IPCC * itself * acknowledges that there has been no such warming now for the last 16 - 17 years; that no dramatic imminent change is seen to that for the next couple of years at least; that the previous spell of 15 years or so was precisely the duration of warming that underlay so much of the evidence cited for its alarms of the long and terrible global trend if forecast; that not a single model the IPCC had or has seems to have come even close to predicting what we've now seen; that the IPCC can only suggest possible explanations for all this so logically meaning it can have no reason to believe that whatever is causing it isn't going to continue forever; that more and more studies are coming in attributing global temperatures not to CO2 but instead other things such as solar fluctuations; that a number of predictions are now coming in that in fact say we are now in for a lengthy period of * cooling.

The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th cePeriod or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th ceperiod in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.

He adds that such a long period of retention of the data exceeds what is necessary, particularly because all the data are retained for the same duration (para. 284) and because the masking procedure is incomplete and does not fully ensure the depersonalization of the data (para. 287).

The reasons for that are varied but include: use of mobile devices for shorter periods of time, rather than desktops for longer durations; increasing «background noise» on social media caused by many brands competing for attention; and ever - changing algorithms that adjust how, when and to whom posts appear.