Sentences with phrase «in betting against»

It may «not be cricket» but it does happen and there have been notable incidents in recent years involving players gambling on the outcome of the game (as in betting against their own side) and various drug and sex scandals (the reality of cricket far belies its staid reputation).

The biggest losers in betting against the Switch are major third party publishers.

The biggest losers in betting against the Switch are major third party publishers.

I would agree with [Shermer] in betting against aliens being bipedal primates, and I think the point is worth making, but I think he greatly overestimates the odds against.

The «Smart Money» was on the NL to some degree — and there does seem to be some value in betting against this «trend» (or just betting against this streak from continuing forever!).

Sports Insights believes in a Betting Against the Public strategy to find value in the sports marketplace and our Square Play methodology strictly adheres to this philosophy.

Contrarian Plays are rooted in our betting against the public philosophy, but they take many additional trends into consideration.

However, if history is any indicator, tremendous value exists in betting against both of these favorites tonight.

As we learned in the betting against the public report, taking a contrarian strategy is a great approach, but you can't just blindly take every team getting less than 30 % and make a profit.

This was a game our staff was monitoring prior to the Rose injury due to the lop - sided betting percentages, and once again exemplifies the value in betting against the public.

In the past, we've shown that success in betting against the public is highly tied to the number of bets placed on each game.

While these results conclusively showed that there was value in betting against tired home teams, we knew there were additional steps we could take to improve this betting system.

The market doesn't seem to have much interest in betting against such a profitable and fast - growing company.

The head of a small company that has attracted controversy over its ties to cryptocurrency said that he is not going to sell his shares while he is fighting $ 1.4 billion in bets against the stock.

Faced with the stock's rapid ascent, short sellers on Thursday covered $ 250 million in bets against Apple, bringing the total reduction in Apple short interest this week to $ 600 million, according to S3 Partners, a financial analytics firm.

I won my Kindle Fire in a bet against my husband, something I should never post on the internet but is honest to God hilarious!

The head of a small company that has attracted controversy over its ties to cryptocurrency said that he is not going to sell his shares while he is fighting $ 1.4 billion in bets against the stock.

Not exact matches

In 2011, Handy hit the headlines: Her strategies beat the returns of the endowments at Harvard and Yale universities after her gutsy bet against U.S. stocks prior to the financial crisis.

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.

Breaking down a bearish bet against hospitals in the options pit with CNBC contributor Mike Khouw.

Paulson & Co surged to fame a decade ago when a winning bet against the overheated housing market helped the New York - based firm pull in billions in new money to manage roughly $ 38 billion at its peak.

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.

The debut of the first futures contract on an established exchange was relatively orderly, in contrast to expectations of high volatility and traders short selling, or betting against, bitcoin.

Thompson said gains in other stocks in his portfolio have provided leeway to maintain his bet against Tesla.

During the regular season we picked seven games a weekend against the spread as our best bets, and went a comfortably profitable 54 -43-1 in that span.

«But what I would bet against in this space, based on this news, is Dunkin' Brands, because it seems to me if you can translate that weak economy to the other places, Dunkin' Brands hasn't executed,» Kelly said.

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.

That implies trades that had profited in the past, including betting against volatility, are unlikely to continue to work, they said.

He also has said he is betting against hamburger chain restaurants as the industry condenses, and in September announced a short against Continental Resources.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

But I bet few would have expected Trump to launch into a tirade against the pharmaceutical industry early on in the presser, sending biotech shares and indices plunging across the board.

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.

The logic: Memphis wide receiver Anthony Miller is the most entertaining player I've watched in college football this season, and there is no way I'm going to bet against him in his final showcase before the draft.

Druckenmiller, who has been betting against IBM since 2013, cited the buybacks (rather than investment in the business) as a factor when he first made his case publicly against the company.

Speaking at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York, the closely - watched DoubleLine Capital LP chief executive officer recommended a trade of shorting, or betting against, Facebook while betting on gains in an exchange - traded fund that tracks oil and gas explorers and producers who could benefit from rising inflation.

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.

It was also clear that Target's bet on electronics hasn't paid off: comparable sales in that category, where it also goes against the likes of Best Buy (bby), fell 9 %.

In response, he suggests one way to bet against bitcoin is to create a basket of stocks that move with the price of bitcoin and short them accordingly.

The logic: Chris Petersen, architect of Boise State's unbelievable upset win over Oklahoma all those years ago, has proven he's not the man to bet against in the Fiesta Bowl.

These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.

Chanos, known for his big bet against Enron before it collapsed in 2001, said Thursday his firm has been concerned about the «rent seekers» in the U.S. health - care system who he alleges are ripping off the system.

It's not the first time a late, broken play has changed the outcome of bets and fantasy matchups across the country — earlier in the season the Chiefs had a similar play on «Monday Night Football» against the Redskins, leaving bettors elated or furious depending on which side of the game they were on.

Both the Eagles and Vikings scored three times in a row in their games last weekend, but we're betting against the trend this time around because I don't think there's going to be a ton of scores in the game in the first place.

Ackman said he has not yet made any money on his bet against the company and projected he will rake in more than $ 1 billion if the stock price drops to zero.

«Mr. Ackman has a $ 1 billion bet against Herbalife and a direct financial interest in hurting our company,» said Alan Hoffman, an executive vice president at Herbalife.

But Cboe said exchange - traded products betting against the VIX account for 5 percent of average daily volume in VIX futures.

Ackman's $ 20 billion Pershing Square Capital Management made a $ 1 billion short bet against Herbalife in 2012 and has seen the stock price fluctuate as other prominent investors got in and the government began investigating the company.

Soros is best known for making $ 1 billion betting against the British pound in 1992.

CNBC contributor Mike Khouw breaks down a $ 1 million bearish bet against retail in the options market.