Sentences with phrase «value decay of»

The approach I took was to combine the leverage that options offer, the poor performance of leveraged ETFs over time (see more on ETF Decay), and the time value decay of both options and leveraged ETFs.

Not exact matches

We hear a great deal about the decay and dissolution of family and community and about the loss of values.

In any event, it was all fairly conventional, merrily venomous talk - radio ranting, and I would probably have forgotten it a moment afterward if, at the end, the woman speaker had not opined that this «Occupy business» was all a part of the decay of the «traditional Christian values that built this nation» — a judgment to which the other two assented vigorously.

He's going to destroy because of our decaying FAMILY VALUES?

Certainly there have always been those Christians who have understood their faith solely in spiritual or personal terms, who have thought of Christianity as the guardian of eternal truths and timeless values in a world of change and decay.

I see plenty of reason to revisit the loss of God in our society, the destruction of the family and family values, and the general decay of morality.

A growth in candor or a decay of shame may account for the latest industrial apologetic: advertising serves the public and its clients because it adds value to a product by altering purchasers» perception of its value!

Good manners express and help to conserve sound social values; bad manners manifest social decay and hasten the disintegration of civilization.

They maintain a strong conviction that God's guidance surpasses the promptings of the senses, and soon they may rise up and reverse the long decay of civilization, producing a new idealism that restores to transcendent values their proper authority.

For not only does it assign genuine value to nature by incorporating the characteristics of contingency, open - endedness, growth and decay in a general metaphysic, but it also assigns an important place to reason as a means for making explicit our understanding of the general structures which may be said to underlie the world as a whole.

The rise in narcotics addiction in recent years, particularly among young people, is in large measure a result of the prevalent decay of purpose, the loss of stable values, and the feelings of personal estrangement, loneliness, hopelessness, and meaninglessness which characterize the present age.

Moreover, we are sometimes afflicted with a sense of impending crisis, lending force to Niebuhr's observation that «one of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.»

Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.

It is then the obligation of love to save the process from issuing into decay through introducing novelty which is additionally creative and alone can advance the value of experience.

Attractive as Metz's proposal of how to counter this decay of faith is, it can not be adopted by process theology without extensive modifications, modifications so great that its particular values may be lost.

During the more than half century of my life, we have seen an unprecedented decay in our American culture, a decay that has eroded the foundations of our collective values and moral standards of conduct.

Salvage logging refers to the practice of harvesting fire - killed trees («salvage») to extract economic value from them before the wood decays.

Because the neutron decays on a time scale similar to the period for BBN, accurate simulations of the BBN era require thorough knowledge of the neutron lifetime, the average time required for a neutron to decay, but this value is still not precisely known.

Hand - picked fruits such as strawberries begin to decay immediately after being harvested, and the market value of the crop may decline by as much as 10 percent per hour if the harvested produce sits in the hot sun waiting to be transported to refrigerated storage, Sowers said.

The BH of the atom is the same immutable value at about 10 to the minus 14 cm, but grows and decays per the periodic table from 10 - 14 cm to 10 - 12 cm for the heaviest element at the top of the table.

What's more, the way W particles themselves decay means that they can not give a precise value of the Higgs» mass.

They measured the combined energy of two of the decay products — a proton and a meson known as J / Psi, which consists of a «charm» quark and antiquark — and then totted up how many times they recorded each energy value across the thousands of collisions they studied.

Combining optical data taken during the outburst decay, we obtain an orbital period of 2.414 ± 0.005 h, in perfect agreement with the value previously measured from X-ray dips.

The different Q values also allow the planets to re-align their orbits with the spin of the star (so that the orbital plane is perpendicular to the star's spin axis) on a timescale shorter than the orbital period decay, thus explaining why there are many «aligned» hot Jupiters.

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The Half Life Time of a quantity whose value decreases with time is the interval required for the quantity to decay to half of its initial value.

The following tools can generate any one of the values from the other three in the half - life formula for a substance undergoing decay

A full list of achievements for Undead Labs» highly anticipated title State of Decay 2 has been revealed, this includes the value, name, and description.

Murray contends that «the American way of life» has decayed and what he calls «the new lower class» (pretty much what we used to call the «working class») has lost the value of «industriousness.»

Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms are a bastion of outmoded Victorian values.

Time value decay and volatility are the two keys to my option income strategy and most strategies involving the sale of options.

The value of a put option decreases due to time decay, because the probability of the stock falling below the specified strike price decreases.

Now, two months later, let's imagine XYZ is still at $ 50 but the option has declined to $ 0.25 (because two months of time decay has eroded its value).

Not so much the moist slop of decaying food scraps, but the value and volume of the food we carelessly throw away.

It has always been the sign of «options noobs» to buy cheap out - of - the - money calls that have a large amount of time left, only to see their option values decay as time passes, while the market simply doesn't «shake up» enough to affect premiums to their advantage in any way.

He likened it to «decaying inventory,» arguing that the real value of it declined a little bit every day:

Although it is a less expensive way to own the stock, there are at least two significant risks: (1) time decay will eat away at the value of your deep in the money calls as time passes, and (2) the stock could drop and then not recover before the options expire.

The last part of the paper discusses two possible explanations for mean reversion: time varying required returns, and slowly - decaying «price fads» that cause stock prices to deviate from fundamental values for periods of several years.

The illiquidity of the securitized Subprime Residential Mortgage ABS highlighted the slowness of pricing signals, as matrix pricing was slow to pick up the decay in value, given the sparseness of trades.

However, I think it's valid to exclude impairment / restructuring charges next year, so I model the lower 2012 operating EPS guidance of EUR 1.45 - 1.55 (based on slightly lower insured values, and some decay in the COR) will actually produce a pretty much unchanged diluted 2012 EPS.

I always make it a point to highlight my disdain for leveraged ETFs as an «investment» since they tend to lose value over time regardless of the performance of the underlying benchmark given the value decay from daily rebalancing.

The value of our miles decays over time.

Updated Melee «Durability Decay» perk descriptions to say «Longer Durability» instead of «Durability Decay»; updated values to reflect new descriptions.

In physics, the term «half - life» references the exponential decay of matter, or the time it takes for something to fall to half it's value.

Likewise a perturbation to the T ^ 4 pattern that gradually decays downward into the atmosphere may be necessary to balance the anomolous cooling near TOA and some anomalous warming below that due to the darkness of space (the anomalous warming would be from the intensity in all directions downward from space not only being not more than 0 but also being not less than 0 — continuation of the T ^ 4 pattern would after all require negative values at some point).

These times (t1, t2 and t3) are sometimes called the e-folding times, the time to decay to 1 / e of the original value.

Regardless of the value of the decay constant, «a», be it millions of years or millionths of a second, the time for an exponential curve to go to zero is infinity.

Sadly, you have conflated the average time that an individual CO2 molecule stays in the atmosphere before being replaced (called airborne residence time) with the time it takes the CO2 concentration to return to pre-pulse values after the addition of a pulse of CO2 to the atmosphere (called e-folding time or pulse decay time or atmospheric lifetime).

An instantaneous release, for example, would cause the atmospheric methane concentration to spike immediately, then decay back toward the unperturbed value on a time scale of approximately one decade.

It follows from this that the logarithmic dependence of the outgoing longwave radiation (which by the way, has to do the the exponential decay of the absorption coefficient away from the center of the absorption line) can still lead to significant temperature changes, particularly since water vapor enhances the value of λ and smoothes out a plot of the outgoing radiation vs. temperature (making it more linear than T ** 4).