Sentences with phrase «risk missing the point»

When you see it only one way, you don't just lower the odds of reaching your destination, you risk missing the point of why you journey in the first place.

A thin, barely - visible tightrope hovers over two different yet equally - treacherous perils: on one side, you risk missing the point of the original and creating a follow - up whose character, plot, and theme barely resembles its source; on the other, you simply retread the familiar beats of the previous work, applying a fresh coat of paint to the old structure.

World leaders are trying to solve the climate crisis through negotiations and policy, but by focusing merely the environmental side of the problem, they risk missing the point.

Not exact matches

If you don't complete a book, you run the risk of missing key points or leaving gaps in your understanding.

It would be easy look at this data and say that stocks aren't worth the risk, but I think that misses the point.

This makes sense given how bonds are structured, but I think many investors miss this point when they worry about the potential risks from rising interest rates.

The first pullback to the 50 - day MA after a major breakout is usually a low - risk buy entry point for those who missed the breakout.

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

The idea of dealing with all those details — risking late fees and penalties for missed payments — in order to earn an extra percentage point of interest is not very appealing to most people.

Three points in the league I would not take big risks at missing those points.

United have spent more than # 250 million under Van Gaal but are at risk of missing out on a top - four finish, with the 20 - time champions currently fifth in the table, one point behind rivals Manchester City in fourth.

It seems to me that some «traditional egalitarians» risk missing a really important point the public's belief in «fair inequality» ends up around the 10 - 1 and 15 - 1 income differentials - ie much much less unequal - though they are also just interested in how the much larger differentials come about as about their scale.

«Heaping ridicule on health and safety misses the point and sends out the dangerous message that regulations are all about petty bureaucracy rather than ensuring real risks are addressed.

My regular doctor completely missed critical results showing my C - Reactive Protein Cardiac was high to the point of putting me at risk for a cardiac event and my Hemoglobin 1Ac showed a 2 - 3 month snapshot of my blood sugar indicating I was pre-diabetic.

The regulatory risk aversion misses the point that this is a pilot project, where the goal should be to learn how to make federal funding do more for students — not defend existing allocation rules.

A growing consensus of research points to chronic absence — defined by the national policy group Attendance Counts as missing 10 percent of school or more — as one of the strongest and most often overlooked indicators of a student's risk of becoming disengaged, failing courses, and eventually dropping out of school.

Citing national studies, Stevens points to several negative effects of suspensions on students apart from missing class time that include an increased risk of dropping out and getting arrested — and that the kids who are most vulnerable, including students of color, special education students, and gay and lesbian students, get singled out the most often.

Our stance and an analysis on the impact of systematic risk on four types of strategies are explored in depth in our white paper «Losing the Forest for the Trees: How the Active vs. Passive Debate Misses the Point.»

Comments about risk premium miss the point.

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

Sometimes all it takes is a single missed payment to knock more than 100 points off your credit score and put you in a lender's high - risk category.»

Good point about the gov» t insurance on counter-party risk, and a nice add to the discussion — definitely something I missed in the article!

This is a very important point, and one that is often missed by investors: If you hold bonds to diversify equity risk, interest rate risk is key.

Booking a trip on two airlines has risks — If you found a great deal from another city to a vacation destination, be sure to pad layover time to avoid missed flights and lost money or points... (See Booking separate flights)

It comes as a nice risk / reward system, because holding my fire could result in getting overwhelmed or missing enemies, but offer up some major points for collecting all the medals.

I also think Ben misses a vital point: this was a very high risk strategy, a calculated gamble.

But if that's your main issue with the book, I think you're spectacularly missing the point, and your comments here risk fundamentally misleading people who haven't read it yet about the nature of the work.

It gets too bogged down with taking them too seriously in niche areas of their own definitions to the point I think we risk missing that its takes only a few short steps away into the real world to understand most normal people who ever heard this narrative obsession would scratch their heads in bewilderment at the triviality of it.

«We don; t know what will happen is consistent with the idea of a high risk of very significant climate shift, but the commenter, missing the entire point, phrases it the opposite.

In this context, vesting high hopes in legally binding targets risks missing some crucial perspectives and points.

Pielke missed the point of issuing a statement which is to point out risk where a realistic one is seen.

As pointed out by Google Places Help Top Contributor, Nyagoslav Zhekov, there are the risks of incorrect information being pushed, the software misses a listing where one exists and that it might miss a duplicate.

Given that its terms focus on the «vulnerabilities» of Indigenous women and girls as opposed to failures of governments and service agencies — the inquiry risks missing the whole point.

I'd like to end my take on the merits of the Domino strategy with this point: The factor that's almost always missing from the arguments against this method is risk.