A member's rating indicates his percentile rank in CAPS. russiangambit is outperforming 99.18% of all CAPS members. A member's score is the total percentage return of all his picks subtracting out the S&P. A member's accuracy is how often that member has made correct predictions.
To calculate a member's rating, we take 2/3 of his score percentile and 1/3 of his accuracy percentile. For further information, read the Member Ratings section of the Help page.
Average Pick Score is a member's total score divided by the total number of picks (active and closed). It represents the member's average return after subtracting out the market's performance.
Average Pick Rating is the average stock rating of a member's total picks. Underperform picks are flip-flopped, so a underperform call on a one-star stock is treated like an outperform call on a five-star stock. This rating reflects how closely your picks are aligned with CAPS ratings.
Ratings last updated at 2:10 AM 5/15/2007.
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The score leader for a stock is the player who has achieved the highest score for that stock. This includes all picks made by a player (active and ended).
The score leader for each stock is displayed in the upper right of that stock’s page.
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November 22, 2009 – Comments (6)
These days financial markets and corporations have a very short-term focus, everything is about the next quarter and after that, who cares, they’ll deal with it when they get there. As it is a case with teenagers where short term gratification often gets upper hand over the long term goals, it seems to me that there will be no end to boom/bust cycles until financial markets learn (or are made to learn) to focus on long-term objectives. But you know what it means – it means an end to the get-tick-quickly schemes that require volatility. It means getting steady 2-5 % return each year. Is that even possible? It is probably not even possible; it seems to be so much against the nature of the current instant gratification society. Inn the financial press the bets are now made on how good the Christmas shopping seasons is going to be; as if a good spending by the consumers is going to heal all the wrongs with the economy. Nobody dares to look beyond the holiday season and ask - what then? What if the holiday spending is good, so what, how does it help whatever happens next? [more]
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