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contrarian::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | investor |
Examples of contrarian
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Maybe I'm just being a contrarian, but the way I see it, we're really fortunate.
From the stltoday.com
It makes it, regardless of what the contrarian Godard says, a different artform.
From the guardian.co.uk
Experience says it is career-threatening to be a contrarian, even a correct one.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Followers of The Prudent Speculator should be well aware of our contrarian bent.
From the forbes.com
Navigating our businesses through this storm will often take a contrarian stand.
From the bloomberg.com
The mob's behaviour might still be useful if it acted as a contrarian indicator.
From the economist.com
Contrarian types, after all, profit by capitalizing on the misjudgment of others.
From the businessweek.com
Maybe it's those outsize expectations that have made Guo a bit of a contrarian.
From the time.com
A wave of price-target boosts could also add fuel to the stock's contrarian fire.
From the forbes.com
- An investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors
- A contrarian is a person with a preference for taking a position opposed to that of the majority view prevalent in the group of which they are a part. A contrarian style of journalism, for instance Slate magazine, has been popular, but has also been the subject of severe criticism. ...
- A financial investor who tends to have an opinion of market trends at variance with most others; a person who expresses a contradicting viewpoint, especially one who denounces the majority persuasion
- An individual whose opinion is the opposite of the majority.
- Investor who do the opposite of what most other investors are doing. In other words, if most investors are buying, the contrarian will sell and vice versa. ...
- An investment style that leads one to buy assets that have performed poorly and sell assets that have performed well. There are two possible reasons this strategy might work. ...
- Describes an investor that believes and does the exact opposite of what the majority of investors are doing at any given moment. For example, contrarians might perceive value in a stock or industry sector that is out of favor or has performed poorly. ...
- Investment decisions which are not based on the general market view (market consensus) and may be actively opposed to it.
- A trading or investing style based on sentiment. Contrarians are typically bullish when sentiment is excessively bearish. Contrarians are typically bearish when sentiment is excessively bullish. The Put/Call Ratio is sentiment indicator used by contrarians.
