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    Forex Day Trading - 2 Logical Assumptions Believe Them And Lose!
    2008-06-23 18:55:53
    There are two common assumptions made by forex day traders and scalpers and if you believe them, you will simply see a 100% equity wipe out and there enclosed. These are common errors and if you want to win at forex trading, you need to avoid them...Lets look at both and there in no order of importance there both important! 1. Volatility in a day is NOT randomDay traders believe that you can calculate support and resistance levels within hours and key off them, to make profits.The problem is the data within any daily session is totally random and you cannot calculate, or see where prices may go next. This is pretty obvious if you think about it and is simply due to the way the price is made.The price is a reflection of millions of traders, all around the world, who all have different skills, aims and are all governed by their emotions to varying degrees. It's a vast mass and what these traders decide in a few hours is anyone's guess and if you try and calculate it you will lose.All vol
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    The Danger of False Assumptions
    2008-06-01 16:38:21
    Today's edition of the New York Times includes a column from its Public Editor Clark Hoyt regarding a recent Op-Ed published in the Times written by Edward Luttwak and titled "President Apostate?" In his original piece, Mr. Luttwak argued that under Islamic Shariah law "as it is universally understood,” were Barack Obama to be elected president, he would be spurned by countries in the Muslim world as an "apostate" who had converted to Christianity. Luttwak went as far as to argue that Obama's...(read more)
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    Assumptions about Investor Behavior underlying Markowitz model
    2008-05-04 22:50:00
    Returns distribution. Every investment opportunity has a probability distribution that describes the expected return over the investment horizon.Risk and Return describes completely investment decisions.Risk represented by variabilityUtility maximization. Investment indifference curves are convex, i.e. their marginal utility of wealth is diminishing over time.Risk aversion. Lower risk is preferable than higher one holding expected return constant.
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    Singapore Govt uses ‘realistic’ assumptions instead of ‘optimistic’ ones
    2008-02-27 15:31:18
    Singapore Govt uses ‘realistic’ assumptions instead of ‘optimistic’ ones GST introduced while revenue position was still strong: Tharman By CHEN HUIFEN IN explaining the background to the way the government has turned out to have gathered far more money than was predicted in last year’s Budget, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam told Parliament yesterday that the basic approach is [...]
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    Yahoo Replaces PageRank Assumptions with User Data
    2008-01-17 00:27:10
    PageRank is an algorithm that measures the importance or quality of a Web document. It can be used in a number of ways by a search engine, such as being combined with relevance factors to rank search results, or to determine which web pages to crawl (pdf) and how frequently to crawl them, or which [...]
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    MCAT Questions: Conclusions and Assumptions
    2007-09-25 18:06:36
    To answer questions that ask you to choose a reasonable conclusion or assumption for an argument, it’s important to understand what it means for a conclusion or assumption to be reasonable in the context of the MCAT. An implied conclusion is necessarily supported by the evidence but is not explicitly stated. That is, given A, B, [...]
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    Dark clouds in forecast: Your long-term market assumptions may be all wet
    2007-07-01 17:45:00
    People in your 20s...something for you to ponder on...for your retirement....====================================By Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatchCHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Everything you know about your financial future could be wrong. That's not a statement on listening to predictions of a dire market crash or following some new theory of the "best" way to invest. It's about what you think you know about stock market returns and how you have planned for them in the future. Paul McCulley, managing director at Pimco and author of the new book "Your Financial Edge," says that investors need to reshape their portfolios to reflect the returns they should realistically expect from the stock market for the next 25 years.It's not the first time someone has suggested that market gains will be lower over the long haul, it's just the rare occasion when someone with so much influence in the industry and such a long track record of being correct as an economist has called for such a dramatic shift
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    Business strategy based on false assumptions
    2006-12-08 09:11:00
    When formulating theories and business plans, we are usually fond of qualifying them by stating the assumptions we have made. The commonly used assumption is the latin phrase “cēterīs pāribus”, basically stating that our plans are based on “all other things being equal.” Should there be a change in these variables or assumptions, our projections would be different. The critical thing to
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