Sentences with phrase «make wrong bets»

«Better investors, whose forecasts are more accurate, tend to become richer and, therefore, influence market prices more than investors that make wrong bets,» she says.

If they worried about being burned by a corporate fraud before, investors today are more concerned about making the wrong bet based on outsiders» supposed revelations.

You've made the wrong bet; Odin's gonna get you and ream your behind real good, little boy.

Sometimes, the manager makes a wrong bet, and the investor would be better off by staying put with the «frozen» reference portfolio.

You eliminate the risk of an investment manager or fund manager screwing up, making the wrong bets, or taking too much risk.

The company made a wrong bet in investing into IPs as drivers for installs to their newest puzzle games and falling behind on gameplay innovations.

While Dominion and all its spider legs may think that burning more gas is a great idea, the reality is, natural gas increasingly looks less like a long - term energy solution and more like a trap for companies that made the wrong bet.

Not exact matches

During the financial crisis, as the bottom fell out of garment maker Gildan Activewear Inc.'s share price, Glenn Chamandy made a bet of about $ 23 - million (U.S.) that the doubters were wrong about his struggling company.

John McAfee made an outrageous «bet» that bitcoin would hit $ 1 million and promised to do something unspeakable if he was wrong.

when people get all huffy over my misuse of words or just plain wrong use of them i laugh, because i can bet my life that you still understood my meaning but rather then discuss the issue i brought up chose to insult thru the means of an english teacher — that i care not for... my point was a valid one and it makes me sad that you think yourself so far above me that you won't even bother with the conversation... tisk tisk.

Can't go wrong with a green smoothie and I bet the quinoa makes this one really filling, perfect for breakfast!

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Give us a break dude, we were once again guessing team, out of position, wrong pick; betting companies are making hundreds of milions with Arsenal... Something's up mates.

To be fair, REDgroup did try to enter the e-book market, but made the wrong strategic bet.

In the interview with Michelle Caruso - Cabrera, Salinas explains why he made his bet on CCTYQ and how it went wrong.

«I'm still trying to figure out my comfort level while hoping not to make too many wrong bets in the meantime,» he says.

If the bet goes wrong, well, you still made a decent amount of money, fund holders will not lose money and Mr. Taxpayer will bail the fund out.

About the only bet I am willing to make is to bet that whatever call I make on market direction in 2009 will be wrong.

okay here's my two cents worth folks im up for renewal and have just nagotiated a rate 5 yr variable1.75 persent or if i want a five yr fixed at 4.49 still quite a gap between fixed and variable here i believe i have a little lee way here apparently i was only interesed in variable and five yr fixed but i made it absulutly apparent to them that when lock in from a variable i get the whosale discounted rate at that time and written into the contract i kinda believe this the way the market is heading as we head out of ressesion and the bank of canada is going to make there move i believe coming up in june and just to make this firm i do not believe the boc will raise rates in fast mode far from it will be slow process i don't care what the ecconmists are thinking we have to remember manufactering sector is reallt taking a hit on the high dollar and don't forget our niegbours to the south how dependent our canada is with them i believe it will be a slow process a lot of people heve put themselves in a debt load over these enormously low interest rates but i may be wrong i think a variable is the way to go if you want to work on that princibal at least should i say the say the short to medium term and betting that the bond markets stay put for the short to medium term - i have given enough interest to the banks maybe i can pay a little less at least fot the short to mediun term here i have not completly decided yet put i think im going variable although i wish my mtge was up a year ago that would have been just great congradulations to all that did.

[Hmm, if the shares end up being suspended / de-listed in the dead of night, what's the bets some die - hard shareholder insists I made the wrong call!?]

The traders, investors, and hedge funds that blew up generally made the error of having «all in» big bets that did not work out, letting an ego keep them on the wrong side of a trade, or went into a position without an exit strategy giving themselves unlimited risk.

Instead I am still writing off my capital loses from times when I made large bets and things went wrong.

What I'm Reading Lessons from Betting on a Biased Coin: Cool heads and cautionary tales (Elm Fund) podcast: Masters in Business: Aswath Damodaran (Barry Ritholtz) Most Of What You Probably Think About Investing Is Wrong (Lawrence Hamtil) ETFs May Actually Make Weak Players Weaker (Econompic) How Investors Develop Bad Habits (Ben Carlson)

Bet it makes figuring out what's wrong all that more difficult, huh?

Speaking to San Jose Mercury News, Riccitiello said, «We made the wrong call there (by betting on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360), which made this transition harder than it would otherwise be.

If enough people bet on the wrong answer, people who bet on the right answer will make money / be rewarded.

The new LG and HTC - made handsets feature premium specifications, promise to mend most of the things the company got wrong with the first - generation like waterproofing and bet on an AI - first future.