Such funds throw around terms like risk parity, equity long-short, market neutral and absolute return.
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Hedge-fund promoters promise to be leveraged, to be hedged, to be "market neutral, " to be short, to be long.
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Hedge fund promoters promise to be leveraged, to be hedged, to be "market neutral, " to be short, to be long.
While Ansbacher sells both puts and calls, trying to stay market neutral, often he'll tweak the weightings using a homespun metric to anticipate market moves.
While Ansbacher sells both puts and calls, trying to stay market neutral, often he'll tweak the weightings using a homespun metric to anticipate market moves (see box).
So much for all that market neutral, going-bad bias strategy.
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For example, the SEC alleges that ThinkStrategy reported a 2008 return of 22.6% for its Capital Fund-A, a long-short market neutral hedge fund, when the actual performance was -77.9%.
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Two hedged mutual funds that we have used at The MDE Group with some success include the TFS Market Neutral Fund (TFSMX) and the JPMorgan Strategic Income Opportunity Fund (JSOSX).
Morningstar's "long-short" mutual-fund category includes market-neutral and absolute-return funds, which are designed to generate returns in any market environment, and arbitrage funds, which try to exploit market inefficiencies.
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Global Alpha's troubles seem to be in currency and market-neutral bets on stocks and bonds.
Described in typical industry gobbledygook as a "multistrategy, market-neutral arbitrage" fund, SRI eked out a net 0.07% return its first six months.
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For reference, the other types of day structures are range days, where the market is just neutral.
FBR's Hilal, who rates the stock a neutral "market perform, " explains RightNow's financials have suffered because of the company's shift to subscription licenses, where revenue gets booked over the life of a contract, vs. perpetual licenses, where revenue gets booked up front.
"The indiscriminate selling has stopped and the market is trying to drift up to a neutral setting rather than an oversold setting, " said Art Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies.
The combination of margin erosion and market share loses has turned us Neutral on the stock.
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Since the bear market ended in March 2009, neutral sentiment has only registered 35% or higher six times.
After eliminating these sales from the insider sell-to-buy ratio, Mr. Seyhun found that current insider behavior is right in line with its average level of the past 10 years, with implications for the overall market that are no worse than neutral.
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On an intermediate term multi-month basis, the gold market is trapped in a consolidative sideways neutral range.
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In the market this year, more people seem neutral to marginally bullish on China than they are bearish.
Participants who are neutral on gold said the market is preparing for its next move and will likely be rangebound.
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Participants who are neutral on prices said they expect the market to stabilize around current levels before deciding on its next path.
Sentiment toward the Market Vectors Gaming exchange-traded fund (ETF) remains neutral to bullish.
The weekly chart for the Dow shifted to neutral not negative as its 12x3x3 weekly slow stochastic or market momentum (what I refer to as MOJO) reading remained above 80.00 at overbought reading of 83.99.
The participants who are neutral on prices are waiting for better signals to enter the market.
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Barclays said investors should expect neutral monetary policy with a bias toward tightening liquidity through open market operations.
He cuts both Brocade and QLogic to Underweight from Neutral, as likewise gets cautious on the storage area networking market.
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