I made a decision, but it was a bad call.

我做了决定，没想到竟是一着错棋。

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Bill Gross of Pimco, the world's largest bond fund manager, in February described gold as a "decent hedge" "OK, so I made a bad call, " he admitted in a tweet on Monday, but added that he "would still buy gold here".

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Mr Liu is simply a trader who made a big, bad call as to which way the market would move.

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Jeff Vinik, Stansky's predecessor, made an aggressive but bad call on a declining market.

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