I was meeting the ball better. The averages don't always tell the whole truth.
Quotes about averages (16 Quotes)
Even though the averages themselves are doing nothing, there are some special situations going on here. There's a lot of action away from the averages.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
Pay attention to what the current markets are, see where the averages are and establish based off of what that market is some kind of price range that you're willing to trade in. You have to set your limits.
I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages, ERAs and other statistics. Fame, notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me, true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end.
We could be looking at the mirror image of what happened in April of last year, where we got above the 50-day and 200-day averages and then the trend turned up. The risk of rolling the other way is the opposite of that action.
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights.
No -- I could get some advice from him this year ... Advice isn't going to help. You cannot pick when things go right and things go wrong. You have to look at the law of averages where they were winning games early in the year, too. It's hard to continue to win in that many different ways and that many close games. I'm confident they'll get it together and pull it together.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
I've had so many downs that I knew the law of averages would be in my favor one day.
The refinance share of mortgage applications in the fourth quarter of 2005 was 45 percent while the average rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages climbed 0.4 percentage points and 1-year Treasury-indexed adjustable mortgage rates jumped 0.6 percentage points from third-quarter averages. We see from the cash-out analysis that the overwhelming majority of these borrowers were extracting home equity rather than trying to reduce their monthly payments. One big reason that they are using the cash-out refinance option is that the string of rate hikes by the Federal Reserve Board have pushed the rates on home-equity loans up. Home-equity loans are typically linked to the prime rate, which currently is at 7.5 percent. In contrast, the average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages is presently near 6.25 percent.
For half a century photography has been the 'art form' of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due to the designer of the camera To the finger on the button to the law of averages.
Let's assume inflation averages 1 to 2 percent. Then you could see maybe the natural funds rate would be -- I don't know -- 3.5 percent, something like that,
The tech sector is where the money seems to want to flow. You can just look at last week's action, when all the averages were up, the money flows into technology, primarily in telecommunications. And even though the valuations have been high all of these quarters and still are, I guess if you want to do well in the market you've got to have some of your assets in technology, definitely.
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.