Sentences with phrase «of small losers»

State pension plans treat them all the same, and we end up in a situation where there are some big winners at the expense of lots of small losers.

Second, it's a sign that the politics of pensions may be changing as people start to realize that pension systems with a few big winners at the expense of lots of small losers is not a good retirement policy.

Not exact matches

Still, given the U.K.'s small trade share with Canada (it accounts for a mere 2.5 % of Canadian trade), they believe that «the biggest loser from Brexit will be the U.K. itself.»

It is crucial to innovation and the health of our economy that small businesses have equal access to the internet, with winners and losers chosen by consumers, not ISPs.»

The losers are the smaller banks who one expects would be less likely to engage in complex financial arrangements, since that has it's own costs unrelated to new regulations, and being smaller, the cost of compliance looms larger.

Alone, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but combine it with these: (1) sales in the craft segment are slowing, and distinctive winners and losers are emerging; (2) large, independent brands not committed to deep cost - cutting are suffering, while corporate - owned craft brands are selling briskly; (3) small craft beer producers are still posting big growth gains; but (4) legacy mass market brands are collapsing; finally (5) mass market Mexican imports are killing it, especially (yay!)

Based on these categories, mutual funds receive rankings based on highest - rated value, highest - rated growth, daily gainers and losers, category of highest and lowest returns, highest - rated large - cap funds, highest - rated mid-cap funds, small - cap funds, high - yield bond funds, high and low risk foreign funds, top year to date performers, analysis of prior year's top performers and...

If you have «miracles» on the menu and prophetic utterances (i.e. competing with the psychic hotlines and HDTV), personal growth (read gospel flavoured new age narcissism) and groovy music it gives you an edge over the poor guy next door (read your competition — i.e. the small potatoes pastor who has even less than you) and you will drive a better car and be considered a man of G - d but only if you are successful (i.e. attract crowds) otherwise you are a loser whether you have a shepherd's heart or not.

- When I practice mindfulness in eating, I savor and enjoy smaller portions instead of absently scarfing down an entire can of Pringles while watching «The Biggest Loser.»

It wouldn't surprise me if the International Olympic Committee took out a copyright on the concept, despite the fact that fairness plays a very small part in determining winners and losers on the far - from - level playing field of international sport.

New York's 3rd Congressional District's Republican primary had the second smallest margin of victory of any race in the 2014 primary season and the least number of votes separating the primary winner from the loser.

«Minimum wage only affects a very small, certain type of employee, but there will always be winners and losers,» he added.

The losers are smaller parties, whose support is too fragmented to see any MPs elected, even if they win a couple of percent of the vote.

«The experience of past — typically smaller — welfare reforms is that they often take longer than expected to deliver, save less than anticipated and create political pressure to compensate losers,» the Welfare Trends report published on Thursday said.

The Biggest Loser Diet involves intake of small, but frequent meals which usually consist of protein, low - fat dairy or soy, whole grains, fruits, vegetables, beans, and nuts.

Ralph Fiennes plays the former local boy turned success story who turns out to be as much of a prat (if not more so) than the small - minded working class losers he's trying to escape and Felicity Jones is his bright and pretty daughter in danger of falling to the same soul - sucking existence that snuffed the life out of her mother (Emily Watson).

The script, by Hope Floats screenwriter Steven Rogers, identifies a pattern of abuse in the athlete's life, passed like a baton between two domineering figures: insult - slinging stage mother from hell LaVona (Allison Janney, relishing every line of bilious dialogue) and Harding's impotently frustrated, small - town - loser of a beau, Jeff (Sebastian Stan, who apparently can act, when not playing the brainwashed sidekick of a super soldier).

Chuck Hayward's (Netflix's series Dear White People) irreverent script is all about embracing your inner loser as the ultimate winner, making Emmy - nominated Jennifer Arnold's (A Small Act) fiction feature directorial debut a willfully offensive adult comedy with no manners and tons of heart.

The supposedly comic film, Evil Woman, centres on a trio of losers who have been friends since school days, have dead - end jobs and do open - air gigs in car - parks for small change as Diamonds in the Rough, a cover band for their hero, Neil Diamond.

The rebel of the bunch, Kansas (Mena Suvari, American Beauty, American Pie, Loser) masterminds the plan for the most outrageous heist this small town has ever seen.

As vengeance was meted out mechanically in the final showdown of «Homefront,» my thoughts drifted to Franco and his small - town loser friends, with sympathy.

True to its title, Small Crimes works best as a character study of a relapsing loser.

Played for romantic comedy yuks rather than gravid melo - operatic contortions (and distinguishing itself from other products of the UK comedy mill by not featuring any old men and women or young boys naked), the picture follows the plight of shiftless loser, small - time criminal Jimmy (Robert Carlyle) as he steals a lot of money from three circus clowns and returns to his small Scottish burg to reclaim his lost love Shirley (the insufferable, simpering Shirley Henderson) and their daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins) from the clutches of mild - mannered simp Dek (Rhys Ifans).

When it's not trying too hard, though, Small Town Crime is strangely comforting in its predictability, anchored by Hawkes» effortless embodiment of a world - weary loser drinking in his last chance like the dregs of so many beer bottles.

Hoffman is small - time schlub Mickey Scarpato: loser, scraper, driver of a refrigerated meat truck, and sometime - participant in petty larcenies with his buddy Bird Capezio (John Turturro).

However, this small group of winners ignores the much bigger pool of losers created by the current system.

«While I understand that the purpose of the Writer Beware Blog is to warn and protect authors, I would like to point out that the biggest financial loser in most of those scenarios is the publishers / co-owners of the small press.»

The goal is to get out of the losers quickly for a small loss while taking full advantage of the winners.

Once you factor in costs, that zero - sum game becomes a loser's game, where only a small number of competitors will earn outsized returns.

One of the main keys of successful trend following is to keep your losers small.

If I am «active» I will select a certain number of companies to invest in based on some criteria (growth, value, etc.), whereas if I am «passive» I choose to simply own all the small companies that exist under that same criteria, and not try to pick winners and losers.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

In Table 4 we compare the performance of the recent winners versus losers in the universes of large - cap and small - cap stocks.

Well, if price only moves 2 pts from initial break of neckline then retraces to neck and does not reverse again into trend they have a loser while I have a breakeven or smaller loser from a neckline entry.

However, it is not uncommon for a professional trader to lose a higher percentage of trades than he or she wins, but it does not matter because they keep their losers small and they are totally fine with swallowing losses as they wait for a winner to hit.

You will have small losing trades, but you will be able to prevent the kind of losers that could knock you out of the game... something like that.

Plus when hone the skill to realign you quickly realize that your stance has changed which helps you pay a small «fee» to the market to get out of your own way... cut losers quickly, preserve capital for the next trade.

Small caps were the biggest losers of the day with the RUT declining.99 %.

An efficient market will have winners and losers, of course, but their margins relative to the market index will be rather small.

According to a Consumers Association survey of 1,000 small - claim litigants, 85 %, including losers as well as winners, like it the way it is.

If I'm tougher than the neighborhood and can outlast the small group of losers that ruin an area I can make outrageous returns, once he property is stabilized.