We stand just inside the entrance to an era of massive opportunity and also of life-altering downside risk.
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All in all, considering how oversold the sector is right now, I think we have a good chance to make 10-15% with this stock in a month or two, with downside risk in the range of only 7-10%.
The questions on the energy question, which is never far from the economic part of the independence debate, are how you assess both risk and return, and how much appetite for risk - both downside and upside - Scottish voters will have when they vote in September next year.
The downside risk in 2013 is to the 200-SMA, which begins this week at 1, 198.84.
The downside risk in 2013 is to the 200-SMA, which begins this week at 12, 499.90.
The downside risk in 2013 is to the 200-week simple moving average (SMA), which begins this week at 11, 253.14.
The IMF downgrade to its global GDP forecast and a note from Goldman Sachs advising profit-taking in commodities has investors targeting downside risk.
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Based on March 26's close and historical trading activity, Way determines the IGN to have a 3-to-1 favorable risk-to-reward ratio with a 13% upside and a -4% downside.
These oxymoronic high-quality junk bonds provide good yields with less downside risk.
Along with Live Nation, Jay-Z also appears to be taking on more downside risk, which he can afford more easily than the former NSYNC star.
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The Red Sox learned the downside risk of that strategy the hard way after their backpage-grabbing acquisitions of Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez two winters ago later went up in smoke.
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Finally, realize that even in the current low interest rate environment, short-term, low-yield bonds offer the advantage of liquidity and little downside risk, allowing them to potentially play an important role in your portfolio.
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Typically mutual funds is where we are looking at quite substantially right now for really one reason, and those tend to trend better with a lot less risk, so you know you can have market-like rate of return on high-yield-bond mutual funds with historically a third of the downside risk of the markets.
The downside: He'll own Rockstar, a hit factory whose risk-taking sometimes veers into recklessness.
The market is fresh off five consecutive up days which, in a mean-reverting market environment, suggests an increased risk of a downside move as technical traders take profits around resistance levels.
However there is no justification for doing this in a way which imposes harsh cuts in benefits from the outset and leaves local authorities - and therefore benefit recipients - vulnerable to further cuts because they have to take the downside risk of any increased expenditure caused by additional benefit claims in year.
Additionally, a subscription-based business model that relies on stable recurring revenues will decrease the downside risk in a weak spending environment like the one the networking industry finds itself currently in.
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So the 10 stocks are all ultra-conservative picks and it seems clear these funds were trying to minimize downside risk well into the fourth quarter as the sovereign debt crisis raged, and there was lots of doom and gloom in the air at home.
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From 2000-2009, pay was well-aligned with performance, and the leverage, or risk-orientation, of the program was balanced on both the upside and downside.
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Ten-year Treasury notes may not be giving you enough comparative diversification benefits to justify their potential downside risk.
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Limited downside risk compared to over 100% upside return potential, if the stock trades at a no-growth valuation, looks pretty good.
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