The resulting index is a mix of trend reportage, expert findings, data-rich analysis and future-positive prediction.
They tapped into their network of friends from high school and soon built a stable of trend-spotters.
This is the type of trend investors certainly want to see with companies they hold shares of.
During the presentation, Ann Mack, director of trend-spotting at JWTIntelligence, discussed findings from the their May 2011 trend report.
And I think that that's the interesting sort of trend that's going on.
Today, Steve Chang remains chairman of Trend Micro and the biggest individual stockholder, with a 3.84% stake in the company.
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In a display of trend-consciousness, each night focused on an ingredient in season locally: Menus were built around watermelon, heirloom tomatoes, lobster and sweet corn.
Four games, obviously, aren't enough to constitute any kind of trend.
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Hirsch, as well as Sy Harding of Street Smart Report, tweak their entry and exit from stocks with the MACD, a measure of trend.
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Catherine Moellering, head of trend-spotting firm Tobe, traces the roots of the pajama look back more than a decade, to a time when Juicy Couture velour tracksuits were the rage.
What they were trying to do was build a different kind of trend line, one that tracked the time and effort spent over the years to catch a single poacher.
That, says Mahendra Negi, chief financial officer of Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based computer-virus company, is bound to be a low-margin business, as all it really involves is translation from English into Japanese.
Jospeph Kelly, a business law professor and expert in online gaming, said that while Dicks' arrest did look to be part of some sort of trend there was an odd disparity with Carruthers.
Hewison recalls that one of the mistakes early in his career occurred when he failed to use stops and was trying to pick a counter-trend, or a top, rather than his current practice of trend-following.
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"Coupled with the recent deterioration in the forward-looking indicators, it is becoming increasingly clear that consensus forecasts of trend growth this year are likely to prove too optimistic, " says Jonathan Loynes, chief UK economist at Capital Economics.
He didn't want to be a part of the trend of what was called New Music at the time.
Way back in 1899, influential Norwegian-American sociologist Thorsten Veblen dismissed fashion as part of a trend of conspicuous consumption.
Kaiser is part of a trend of mutual fund companies offering ways to mix your religious views with your money.
The growth in traveller numbers at Heathrow was part of a trend of improved figures at the airport, BAA said.
It's part of the trend of "constant access" to data, which "really pulls people more deeply into the (technological) tools they use, " he said.
It was seen as part of the trend of firms hosting one-off events to suit their own timetables rather than rushing to meet a January deadline.
But because you track trends, do you have any sense of the trend of the sort of the extent of views as extreme as von Brunn expressed?
Their emergence is part of a trend of smaller and smaller groups targeting corporations and markets, rather than governments, to achieve their goals, sometimes with spectacular effects.
World Soccer writer Mark Gleeson, an expert on African football, believes that the policy of hiring European coaches rather than homegrown ones is reflective of a trend of football as a whole and not unique to Africa.
Officials at the West Midlands government office argue that while their agency might not be as powerful as was once hoped, it still represents a significant reversal of the trend of the past generation, which has seen ever more power centralised in Whitehall.
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