Not exact matches
In this situation, where the shorter -
term chart of SLV is showing more strength than GLD, but the longer -
term chart is showing the opposite, the longer -
term chart interval
bears the most weight, and therefore holds the most significance in ultimately determining the direction of the
trend.
As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the
trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our
terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and
borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregation.
However, a
bear market is not the same thing as a correction, which is a shorter -
termed trend that will generally last less than a couple of months.
During secular
bear markets, there are shorter -
term cyclical bull (upside) moves, but the general
trend is sideways and down.
This means that the market's medium - long
term trend is going down even though there may be
bear market rallies along the way.
Investors should also note that while
bear funds may help to hedge against short -
term declines, over the longer
term they have performed poorly because of the general upward
trend of the market.
The business media in particular likes to use
terms like «bulls», «
bears» since they need to make market moves and
trends more exciting than they really are.
Of course, there were short
term bear markets such as in 1987, however the easy money was made on the long side as the primary
trend was up.
This is pretty esoteric stuff, but it would actually be quite interesting if it were true — though we hasten to add that even if true it would have no significant
bearing on the interpretation of long
term temperature
trends.
Yet no one except Chief believes that this fluctuation has any real
bearing on the long -
term trend.
Natural disaster damage has not been considered in past analyses, but, «assuming that extreme weather events are on the rise in
terms of frequency and destruction, how this
trend could feed through to our ratings on sovereign states
bears consideration,» S&P analysts wrote.
Bearing in mind that actual
trends are likely to vary from place to place, it appears that changes in dipole moment could make a significant contribution to long -
term changes in Sq amplitude.
Stirling, I., M. J. Lunn, and J. Iacozza, 1999: Long -
term trends in the population ecology of polar
bears in Western Hudson Bay in relation to climate change.
Bearing in mind their previous hubris about short -
term cycles being manmade, their gross, unproven assumption about CO2 as a climate driver and the fact that the signal is far less than the error bars in the noise then why would anyone think that the long -
term trend is anything other than just a separate upswinging natural cycle?
The stratosphere only weakly, and the different variations are not tightly related [long -
term trend in stratosphere, but not in thermosphere], and have no
bearing on the climate.
Anyone who has studied climate for even a short while should know that there are natural fluctuations in global temperature which have little or no
bearing on long -
term trends — mainly the solar cycle and ocean oscillations.
I haven't had a chance to look at the data you refer to, but
bear in mind that SST
trends over such a short
term are essentially weather (and like all weather metrics can not be expected to increase monotonically), and SST
trends globally should not be expected to be identical to those in the hurricane basins.
They will distinguish those failed firms as aberrations
borne of mismanagement, rather than as victims of pervasive
trends that persist, including: undervaluing collegiality and cohesiveness as vital to long - run stability, mistaking growth for the sake of growth as a long -
term strategic plan, and indulging their confirmation bias as they wait for some other firm to fail because they're certain it wo n`t be theirs.»