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Contrarian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philosophically, a contrarian is a person who tends to take positions that openly challenge conventional wisdom. Contrarians are sometimes thought of as perma-bears—market participants who are permanently biased to a bear market view. However, the contrarian is not biased specifically towards a negative view of the price trend in a market, but rather takes a contrary position to the prevailing crowd's view, whether that view is positive or negative. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Contrarian   (222 words)

Contrarian Investment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) In financial economics, a contrarian is a person who would tend to take positions that are not in line with, or often even directly opposite to, the primary crowd. Contrarians are often thought of as "perma-bears", or market participants who are permanently biased to a negative trend, or bear market view. In more correct usage, a contrarian is not in fact biased towards a negative view of the price trend in a market, but rather is simply counter or contrary to the prevailing market trend, whether that trend is positive or negative. www.wwwtln.com /finance/52/contrarian-investment.html   (1030 words)

contrarian Contrarians are particularly active in the areas of global warming and other environmental issues, but they have been active in many other areas as well, such as tobacco and health issues. Contrarians demand endless analysis of issues to prevent any action from being taken rather than to ensure that the most reasonable conclusion be arrived at. Contrarians often refer to their endless demands for more study and their claims that doubts still remain—no matter what the consensus—as "sound science," a bit of doublespeak that is the scientific equivalent of the filibuster. skepdic.com /contrarian.html   (339 words)

The CEO Refresher - The Contrarian Leader And the contrarian leader knows she has to allow lieutenants to make as many decisions as is reasonably within their capacity to make, even if it means from time to time that they will make mistakes that the leader might have avoided. But the contrarian leader is always suspicious of conventional wisdom and is willing to go against it when it's in the best interest of his organization or institution to do so. So I think a person who practices some of the principles of contrarian leadership is in a better position when the going gets really tough to understand that she can't just try to catch up with her competitors; that's not a formula for winners. www.refresher.com /!enescontrarian.html   (1246 words)

Ideas & Screening | Reuters.com The latter is based on the idea that you want to buy low and sell high and that in order to do this, you have to be willing to buy (or at least hold) when the stock is out of favor (which causes the price to be low). Contrarian investors, today, are those who are willing to be patient. The idea behind the contrarian approach presented here is to invest in good companies whose shares have been hit by short-term adversity. www.investor.reuters.com /ReadHTML.aspx?target=about&html=ContrarianOpportunities   (948 words)

The Contrarian Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) I simply wish to promote the contraria in the contrarian, to emphasize the strengthening of ones own case when one is able to come to the opposing side's court to argue. To convince the other that his or her tightly held convictions, deeply rooted in the biological-neuro-physiological development of the individual personality of this person, are wrong, requires us to come to the others side, to promote argument on the others terms and to beat the other at his own game on his own turf. Thus I argue with a contrarian perspective the gravest injustice would be to-be-polarized. www.contrariantimes.com /dan.html   (552 words)

Contrarian Investment Philosophy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The contrarian philosophy is to act contrary to the conventional wisdom in stock investing at any particular time. Contrarians believe that 10,000 Frenchmen CAN be wrong; tens of thousands of investors pursuing the same course at the same time is like a cattle stampede. One contrarian strategy is to purchase stocks that are out of favor, or stocks in industries that are out of favor, with the market. www.powerinvestor.com /Primer/Stock-Investing-Theories-and-Strategies/Contrarian-Investment-Philosophy.htm   (287 words)

Contrarian Systems for Sports - Football, Basketball, and Baseball The concept of contrarian systems to sports handicappers means that taking the team the public is systems against has value. Betting the contrarian postion in basketball usually involves another key handicapping angle like the bounce back angle or even the revenge angle. Word to the wise is to nost trust any sports handicapping service unless you see their results at a national monitor service that grades their results. www.nflsystems.com /contrarion.html   (220 words)

Contrarian funds march to a different drummer - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The biggest misconception about contrarian investing is that you do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Fidelity Contrafund (FCNTX) and Janus Contrarian (JSVAX) are two funds with "contrarian" in their names that have fine performance records. But Janus Contrarian, which is open, has gained 15.4% a year over the past five years, vs. 10.2% for fund expert Morningstar's large-company blend category. www.usatoday.com /money/perfi/columnist/waggon/2006-12-07-contrarian-funds_x.htm?POE=MONISVA   (810 words)

TheStreet.com: The Joy of Contrarian Investing Contrarians don't always go against the vast consensus of the investing public because the overall feeling in the market is correct. Contrarian theory says high put/call ratios are bullish, while low ones are bearish. Although contrarian trading isn't for everyone, simply being aware of contrarian theory can be a useful weapon in an investor's arsenal. www.thestreet.com /funds/optionsforum/1275679.html   (1421 words)

Contrarian Investing In reality, contrarian investing is none of these: though the tactics of a contrarian may resemble one or more of these naive descriptions, they miss the point and seriously so. And the contrarian is more likely to be attracted to a point of view that has not yet been thought of - the 'empty file drawer' idea - than one that has been considered and rejected. Contrarians look for these small opportunities by noting when the consensus seems to be clustered and they examine the other, independent alternatives. www.deanlebaron.com /book/ultimate/chapters/contrary.html   (1517 words)

Contrarian Today™, Mainstream Tomorrow Contrarian Today has recently undergone a massive upgrade in order to fulfill the requests of our visitors. Contrarian Today is now home to more innovative investment resources than ever before. Contrarian Today was founded upon a vision of providing unbiased investment commentary, tools, news, and insights to informed investors seeking ultimate value in the financial markets. www.contrariantoday.com   (87 words)

Dogs of the Dow - Contrarian Investing Contrarian investing is a strategy adopted based on the premise that a market, sector, or stock is not going to move in the direction that is expected by the majority of market participants. Contrarian investing is a strategy that has its inherent risks but the gains made by such investors can be substantial. However, practitioners of contrarian investing are important as they can provide liquidity when it is most needed. www.dogsofthedow.com /Contrarian_Investing.htm   (151 words)

Against the Tide: Contrarian Picks for When the Market Turns The $200 million Newcap Contrarian Fund and Ohio National's $5.6 million One Fund Global Contrarian Mutual Fund rank among the five worst-performing funds in their sector so far this year and within the bottom 10 percent in the past 12 months. The Global Contrarian Fund was launched last month by the Singapore-based fund manager OUB Asset Management Ltd. Its managers expect to generate average returns of 20 percent by ferreting out fundamentally strong stocks that have been oversold. At the other extreme of the contrarian spectrum are funds such as the Comstock Capital Value fund, which has posted a loss of more than 12 percent so far this year and 31 percent in the past 12 months, ranking it among the worst-performing capital appreciation funds. www.iht.com /articles/1998/05/16/mcon.t.php   (1113 words)

Contrarian Investing Because contrarian investing can be a difficult strategy to follow, and requires commitment and discipline to make it work. But as a contrarian, you must become a de­tached thinker and learn to be comfortable as a loner. But, for contrarians to profit, all the other investors have to be wrong when you are buying or selling your shares. www.investingpub.com /forum/about1029.html   (1173 words)

Contrarian Investor A contrarian investor is one who believes in profits over popular opinion. Contrarian investors are inclined to buck conventional trends, NOT follow the standard perceptions of the stock market, and think the majority of investors out there are usually wrong. In 1970, this Hungarian-born contrarian investor-philosopher created the Quantum Fund with Jim Rogers… It went on to return about 3,999%, compounded, over the next 30 years… Soros is famous for going short the British pound and earning $1 billion in a single day, Black Wednesday, 1992. www.investmentu.com /contrarianinvestor.html   (1096 words)

The Contrarian Manager The key to success is that delicate balance when the forces of inertia don't squash creative contrarian thinking, but are sufficient to ensure that the idea is carefully researched and, if it is to be pursued, all the small but important details of execution and implementation have been reviewed. The good contrarian chief executive officer must recognize and appreciate the importance of the methodical, detail-oriented thinking that is essential to implementing a new approach. Contrarian investing has long been a popular term on Wall Street to describe those investors who believe the conventional wisdom is always wrong, by definition, in the marketplace. www.businessweek.com /chapter/jenrette.htm   (1295 words)

Halfbakery: Contrarian Party The biggest problem the Contrarian Party will have is if their opposition make a populist lunge for the centre, leaving hardline contrarians to flee like oil from soap, in all directions, creating a perfectly politically diverse party, albiet an unelectable one. Defining 'contrarian' might lead to splintering along semantic lines -- you'd have a gainsaying faction, a 'generally oppositional but prepared to be reasonable about it' faction, an absurdist 'the opposite of everything is cheese' faction, a few postmodernist wankers, etc. No, the goal of the Contrarian Party, aside from levering me into a position of ultimate power, power which I will be as free to wield as carelessly as a vomit-chinned baby wields his Moo Cow rattle, is to finally bring a transparency to the policy selection process. www.halfbakery.com /idea/Contrarian_20Party   (1223 words)

Contrarian Thinking Most often it is associated with investment advice, but contrarian thinking creates opportunities for brands too. A contrarian thinker is 'one who takes a contrary view or action, who makes decisions that contradict prevailing wisdom'. Here are a few brands that have been built with an element of contrarian thinking (roll your cursor over the images to discover the brands). www.buildingbrands.com /goodthinking/15_contrarian_thinking.shtml   (221 words)

Cafe Hayek: The Contrarian Vice But even a disposition as admirable as contrarianism has its downside -- what I might call "the contrarian vice." The contrarian vice is to weigh cleverness too heavily against wisdom. Contrarians run great risks of rejecting some piece of wisdom simply because it is widely accepted -- and of confusing the possible for the plausible. But to be contrarian for a moment, I point out that Abelard said that "The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth." cafehayek.typepad.com /hayek/2006/08/the_contrarian_.html   (1108 words)

FPA Contrarian Investment Strategy This contrarian style leads to those investments that offer absolute rather than relative value. An absolute value is an investment that trades at a substantial discount to private market value, rather than one that might appear inexpensive based on a discount to its peer group or the market average. The portfolio manager applies this contrarian style in the belief that the path to superior equity returns lies in “buying what others are selling and selling what others are buying.” Providing calm, rational judgment in an inherently emotional market can offer the opportunity for excellent returns. www.fpafunds.com /contrarian.asp   (506 words)

USC President - The Contrarian A contrarian leader, as defined by Sample, is one who sees situations from his own unique point of view and who finds genuinely new solutions to the challenges facing his organization. Sample uses USC's explosive recent growth as a case study in contrarian leadership, noting how bold and unconventional choices helped USC become a world leader in the fields of communication and multimedia technologies, earn national recognition for its innovative community partnerships, and solidify its status as one of the nation's leading research universities. The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership is available at bookstores nationwide, and may be ordered through the USC Pertusati Bookstore at 1—800-447—8620 or online at www.uscthestore.com. www.usc.edu /president/book   (308 words)

USATODAY.com - Strategy can lead to good contrarian buy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Contrarians have a certain exotic image: They're the smart investors who manage to snap up great investments at bargain prices because all the rest of us are stupidly following the crowd. For every successful contrarian, however, there are dozens who have been trampled by the herd. Real contrarian investing is founded on the premise that investors are not the coldly logical mechanisms that Wall Street would like you to believe. usatoday.com /money/perfi/columnist/waggon/2003-01-03-contrarian_x.htm   (825 words)

Contrarian - T2W Traderpedia In other words, if most investors are buying, the contrarian will sell and vice versa. A contrarian view is that when the market is going up, most people are already or nearly fully invested and have no additional funds to make more purchases. Contrarian views can also be taken with snake oil trade signal services - some of these services provide market calls so bad that doing the exact opposite of them can sometimes prove profitable. www.trade2win.com /traderpedia/Contrarian   (146 words)

Amazon.com: Contrarian Investing: Buy and Sell When Others Won't and Make Money Doing It (New York Institute of Finance ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) To be a contrarian means betting against crowd, and against the prognosticators and pundits who, as highly visible experts, are makers of mass opinion. In order for a contrarian to profit, the whole must be convinced they are right in their investment sentiment and the contrarian position juxtapose in the reverse sentiment. A contrarian investor measures opinion of the investing public, and the when the opinion reaches an "unreasonable extreme", he invests against it; a contrarian should avoid mass media speculation that accompanies market tops. amazon.com /Contrarian-Investing-Others-Institute-Finance/dp/0735200785   (1950 words)

MMC Contrarian - About MMC Contrarian MMC Contrarian is an investment company listed on the Australian Stock Exchanges (ASX) which primarily invests in other ASX listed securities. The name MMC Contrarian has been chosen because the investment philosophy to be adopted by the Company is contrary to the "herd" mentality which can often influence fund managers. Our philosophy is that investments will be evaluated on fundamental criteria to identify opportunities which have been undervalued by the market in general and therefore over time are expected to be rerated. www.mmccontrarian.com.au   (273 words)

Contrarian Investment Strategies the Next Generation At the first of the book, Dreman talks of a casino with two different rooms, one of which always produced winning gamblers, and the other always produced losers.  He explained that the odds of winning in the good room were 60-40 and the odds of losing in the bad room were 60-40. Contrarian investing is one of the best approaches for investors to beat the market because it can be applied systematically without emotion. The exception to this is when the contrarian strategy has a bad year or two at which time the investor will need some guts to hang on to the strategy and continue rebalancing quarterly according to the low P/E, and other rules for contrarian investing. www.ratecatcher.com /contrarianstrategies.htm   (1201 words)

The Ultimate Contrarian According to The American Heritage Dictionary, a "contrarian" is an investor who makes decisions that contradict prevailing wisdom. And as a contrarian, it's your duty to find these kinds of stocks -- the ones everyone else forgets about or simply refuses to look at. And it certainly doesn't go against the contrarian mantra of finding winning stocks in neglected sectors of the market -- no matter what those sectors are. www.gold-eagle.com /gold_digest_03/boric041903.html   (852 words)

The contrarian's goal: To make money - MSN Money The contrarian investor isn’t a crank; he’s just a skeptic about good and bad news. Contrarian: An investor who seeks to make a profit by acting in opposition to majority opinion, prevailing wisdom, etc., as by buying a company's stock when it is out of favor with the majority of investors. Therein lies the rationale for being a contrarian: By not doing what everyone else is doing, usually you can engineer the risk/reward in your favor. moneycentral.msn.com /content/P85430.asp   (927 words)

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