The basis being that each customer is always in their own buying cycle.
And new software from Microsoft and the blazing Itanium chip from Intel should ignite a technology buying cycle by November.
We merely fit (Or try to fit) into the customers buying cycle.
Using this construct, he demonstrates how customers progress through the buying cycle and how businesses can create engagement with customers at each step of the process.
We add momentum and velocity to the TV spot (the rain), capture it and circulate it back into the on-line process, thereby advancing the brand and buying cycle.
On the one hand, it tries to constantly update its gadgets on a tight buying cycle that ensures that even satisfied customers are compelled to shell out hundreds of dollars on a regular basis.
So, you have to pay a lot of attention to overbought and oversold oscillators, and these could be very long-term ones that run from one to three to five months, so that you are buying at the bottom of a relative strength cycle instead of buying at the top.
When taking into consideration the open interest data and the exiting of net longs by money managers, it suggests that money is on the sidelines and that there is potential for a new cycle of buying.
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Lynch was a fearless long-cycle investor, buying a stock like Fannie Mae when nobody wanted it, and holding on.
All the cost benefit of buying consumer was erased in one cycle of purchasing in less than 1 year.
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Thus, they are well placed to make huge returns by buying assets at the bottom of the cycle, just as they have done in past downturns.
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Management made horrendous business decisions like buying the Boston Globe at the top of its cycle, but now a near worthless property.
After 18 months of credit tightening and new home buying restrictions, we may be at the end of the cycle, and they are likely to be much different.
The coal industry is a good example of how managements get carried away in the up cycle, committing serious money to new mine development and buying sizable coal operators at premium prices, further leveraging their capital structure.
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It allows for a cycle of bids to appear in the marketplace as the tide of buying moves between the various skittish groups that have been witness to a decade of perpetual fear.
For example, a trader may have a predominantly long strategy focused on buying dips in relatively strong stocks, but if we enter a bear market cycle or the market starts to get toppy, that trader will have a tough time making money.
Indeed, that businesses are buying back shares, rather than investing in new plant and equipment, may help sustain the cycle for a bit longer.
Emerging from this credit cycle, the strong will inevitably get stronger and the better banks will reap the benefits of buying distressed assets at bargain prices.
When we get bad news, and the cycle was pointing to a turn, it is all the more reason to shelve any thoughts of buying until a reasonable correction is posted.
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