Read this case study about how poorly assessing technical risk cost one company millions of dollars and months of delay.
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There is a technical risk that Hormel is in the midst of forming a rounding top, based on slightly increasing volume during the late-December retracement.
Whitmarsh said the MP4-19 was an evolutionary step forward from the MP4-18's design, but had a new engine and incorporated a lower degree of technical risk.
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Morgan Stanley's own website lists 20 pages of available jobs in its North American institutional securities division, including many technical and risk management posts but also positions in equity research, in derivatives and in prime brokerage.
Technical indicators suggest risk tolerance in the market generally is improving, which bodes well for banks.
These stocks are strong performers, but a key technical measure indicates risk may be high for new buying.
When you look at the weekly graph for the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) you see that semiconductors are on the cusp of its 200-week simple moving average at 341.34 and that a trend below that key technical level indicates risk to its annual value level at 270.98.
We find it essential to have risk decisions made collaboratively among technical security experts (us), general risk and control experts and business- and function-aligned non-specialists.
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Since only computer simulations and static and non-nuclear examinations are allowed, there is a risk significant technical issues will not be uncovered simply because we are not looking in the right way.
The right set of emotions can even make up for bad numbers or technical uncertainty in high risk startups- whereas great numbers will rarely make up for a failure to make people feel the right way about what you are doing.
Many rural communities are several miles from a telephone exchange - too far for high-speed broadband to work - while satellite connection for high-speed access is very expensive and carries the risk of added technical problems.
Thus, as a technical matter there is some legal risk, even for NCAA Tournament pools run offline.
For example, they would be able to enlist the federal government's expertise when things got too technical, and mechanisms for managing risk would be streamlined.
Professional traders at leading hedge funds use technical analysis to identify such low-risk levels before the move happens.
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For over 20 years, I have used two primary technical tools to measure both volatility and risk: Bollinger bands and Starc bands.
While the truth in the situation is hard to pin down, the technical reality doesn't leave much risk that our iPads and iPhones will be compromised.
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Taking a position ahead of earnings, even if they are better than expected, can be high risk, but assessing the technical outlook for Nasdaq 100 stocks like Apple (AAPL), SanDisk (SNDK), eBay (EBAY), and Yahoo (YHOO) can provide an edge.
However, taking more aggressive positions when the risk is too high and the technical outlook is mixed can often result in disaster.
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The market is fresh off five consecutive up days which, in a mean-reverting market environment, suggests an increased risk of a downside move as technical traders take profits around resistance levels.
The result, claims Chris Best, technical director of Ricardo, is to reduce the risk of product development, while speeding it up.
Strong technical oversight is required to confirm the level of risk.
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The return should reflect such risk factors as the project's technical complexity, the agency's management capacity, the likelihood of cost overruns, and the consequences of under- or non-performance.
The challenge will be to find those stocks where the technical studies are just turning positive, then finding a reasonable risk entry.
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The aim of this exercise, called NEAMWave12, is to evaluate the technical alert mechanism and the civil protection services when taking the tsunami risk into account.
Our starting point is that disaster risk reduction cannot be seen solely as a humanitarian or a technical issue.
Provide technical support and contribute to the substantive development of the field of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Education, with a strong focus on prevention, preparedness, coping skills and resilience, as an important contribution to education for sustainable development (ESD) and the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable development (DESD).
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Selling over the past couple of trading sessions has been violent and panicky, as steep declines in the price of bullion were accompanied by the breaking of key technical levels, sparking stop-loss selling, margin calls, and then risk managers and asset allocators offloading commodity holdings to build cash levels.
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GM's technical cooperation with Chinese partners goes beyond what any of its major competitors are willing to risk in light of China's reputation for intellectual-property theft, on top of government-mandated technology transfers.
In 2004 a new regulation Technical Advice Note 15 (or TAN 15) to reduce the amount of development in flood risk areas was passed by the government.
From a technical standpoint, this is a time to be a cautious buyer, as measuring the potential risk when considering any new positions is more important than thinking about any potential reward.
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