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Derren Brown - FTSE prediction
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Gutted, I said 5,200 and it was a few days ago. Now we've had a silly rally
Stevie's looking good!“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
The Moneysaving Kid is in the driving seat at the moment with 5438 (very specific
). 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Purely for posterity......5,412.880
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DB isn't a magician (and freely admits it), he leads you to believe something, whilst doing something else.
He didn't use wisdom of the crowd at all, he just cheated the audience, took advantage of the small transmission delay. Otherwise, of course, he'd have shown you the balls with the numbers to start with! Just a simple confidence trick.
Anyway I'm veering off topic
Reminds me of that women that recorded the lottery programme then went out and bought a ticket using the previous weeks wnning numbers, she then turned on the the recording at the same time the current lottery programme was running and asked her hubby to check the numbers :eek:'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
You do realise it was a joke?This is the same theory which Derren Brown claims to have used to help him determine the most likely numbers to predict the Lottery.
Wisdom of crowds falls down horribly when you have a bubble. In those cases you'd have to call it the delusion of a crowd.Happy chappy0 -
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The_MoneySavingKid wrote: »Yeah! I am amazing. :cool:
Not so amazing as to risk a prediction for 31 March 2010 though!
Me? 5,6000 -
I hope nobody is foolish enough to consider investment based on this.Four guns yet only one trigger prepare for a volley.Together we can make a difference.0
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Not so amazing as to risk a prediction for 31 March 2010 though!
Me? 5,600
I'll start a new thread / Poll asking for predictions on the 1yr anniversary of the 2009 FTSE low
Here:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2176295I hope nobody is foolish enough to consider investment based on this.
Retail investors dont represent that much money by themselves. Most people invest indirectly through a pension where the decisions are not done by a crowd of people
All the same it does no harm to know what the street level sentiment is ?0 -
Hey I was one working day out with my 5500 prediction
Happy investing for the new year. 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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