They look at fundamental metrics and conclude that
their odds of losing money are small.
«Investors often interpret a stock price rise as confirmation of the underlying company's attractiveness, whereas it really means that the market is reducing your odds of making money and increasing
the odds of you losing your money» Francois Sicart
Not exact matches
Many
of these fans who lay heavy
odds shrug their shoulders if they see themselves
losing money because they know that their team seems to be winning around 60 %
of the time (even as their bankrolls dwindle).
This may result in winning only 40 % -50 %
of your selections, but the plus -
money odds mean you'll have positive units won despite a
losing winning percentage.
«We do it to turn a profit or at least not
lose too much... Nobody will be criticizing the predictive power
of our
odds, they'll be looking at the
money we made.»
This seems like it might actually be the safest bet
of all, by which I mean «the bet with the
odds still weighted against you, but you'll
lose slightly less
money over several seasons.»
Either way, as the
odds of finding any success or building a career or so extremely low, like.1 % that you will not
lose money, going this route makes sense for only rare exceptions, especially with fiction.
It might seem like the
odds are stacked up against traders, given that those who lack discipline could
lose money in the majority
of the cases.
Statistically those are mighty good
odds — at least if you are willing to
lose nearly a third
of your
money in a 12 - month period.
Odds are that cryptocurrencies are here to stay, but it's a lottery and there is a really good opportunity to
lose most
of your
money.
The
odds of stringing several
of these successful purchases in succession, parlaying the
money into bigger and bigger stocks that double is remote at best, and your
odds of losing a lot
of it is high.
If you're still working with benefit decisions you made a couple
of years ago,
odds are you're actually
losing money.