Typically I would encourage bettors to fade the public, especially in these heavily bet playoff games, but bettors need to pursue
other contrarian strategies since both teams are receiving roughly half of public support.
Not exact matches
Contrarian strategy means constantly zigging when
others zag, and perhaps the most overused and clichéd theory involves the supposed struggles of teams in the midst of a prolonged road trip.
This would seem to indicate that although betting against the public continues to be a profitable approach, bettors need to consider
other historically profitable
strategies in conjuncture with this
contrarian strategy.
We do stress a
contrarian strategy but, based on these
other factors; we would recommend laying off this game.
This
contrarian strategy of betting the OVER in low total games isn't a loser but it's nowhere near as profitable in Week 3 as it is in
other preseason games.
In
Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation and Risk (1994), Lakonishok, Shleifer and Vishny demonstrate that value strategies outperform because they are «contrarian to «naive» strategies followed by other investo
Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation and Risk (1994), Lakonishok, Shleifer and Vishny demonstrate that value
strategies outperform because they are «
contrarian to «naive» strategies followed by other investo
contrarian to «naive»
strategies followed by
other investors:»
He is best known as the author of the websites The Acquirer's Multiple ® and Greenbackd, and the books Concentrated Investing:
Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016, Wiley Finance), Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and
Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014, Wiley Finance), and Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012, Wiley Finance).
I recorded an interview yesterday afternoon with WFAE 90.7 («Charlotte's NPR News Source») about the
strategy behind Carl Icahn's exit from Family Dollar Stores Inc. (FDO: NYSE) and Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and
Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (hardcover or Kindle, 240 pages, Wiley Finance).
In
other words, dollar - cost averaging works because it's a slightly
contrarian strategy, where you buy more shares when the market goes down.
I believe that David Dreman's
Contrarian Investment
Strategies: The Next Generation contains critically important information is Chapter 15: «Small Stocks, Nasdaq, and
Other Market Pitfalls.»
This page contains links to my Books Presentations Media Articles White Papers Research Papers Books The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire
Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market (2017) Concentrated Investing:
Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (Wiley Finance, 2016) Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and
Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (hardcover, -LSB-...]
Accusing the
other of what you're guilty of yourself seems to become the common
contrarian strategy.