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firestone

Two ice creams for a fiver! Blimey could have bought the Tonibell van and had 10 bob change last time i treated the wife

ivormonee

I see that noone, as yet, has provided any quantitaive data on the weather's volatilty/ standard deviation and "performance" (definition pending) to enable comparisons (meaningful or entirely fruitless, take your pick) with various investment portfolios.

bowlhead99

ColdIron wrote: »

Edit: Just remembered I have a Solero Exotic in the fridge that I'm going to call brunch

Good on you, the Exotic is superior to the heretic Red Berries version. Though it was better a couple of decades ago when they first came out before they engineered them to get below 100 kcals.

Still, I'm sure the fruit content qualifies it to be a continental breakfast.

ivormonee wrote: »

I see that noone, as yet, has provided any quantitaive data on the weather's volatilty/ standard deviation and "performance" (definition pending) to enable comparisons (meaningful or entirely fruitless, take your pick) with various investment portfolios.

If you want to create the volatility metrics for yourself, knock yourself out:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/stationdata/heathrowdata.txt

LHW99

I see that noone, as yet, has provided any quantitaive data on the weather's volatilty/ standard deviation and "performance" (definition pending) to enable comparisons (meaningful or entirely fruitless, take your pick) with various investment portfolios.

Or smart beta - I'm sure that's really important in the context of global warming.

george4064

Here is my performance of mixed (passive & active) ISA portfolio:

31st Dec to 31 March = -4.3%
31st Dec to 30 April = 0.1%
12 months to 30 April = 10.3%

ivormonee

bowlhead99 wrote: »

If you want to create the volatility metrics for yourself, knock yourself out:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/stationdata/heathrowdata.txt

What would be really interesting, potentially, would be to see if there is any correlation between the weather and investment performance. If it were found that, say, better performance correlates more highly when compared to, say, periods of lower weather volatility or higher/ lower temperatures, then we could be onto something.

firestone

ivormonee wrote: »

What would be really interesting, potentially, would be to see if there is any correlation between the weather and investment performance. If it were found that, say, better performance correlates more highly when compared to, say, periods of lower weather volatility or higher/ lower temperatures, then we could be onto something.

Not sure its believed anymore but there was the old "sell in may and go away" saying

grey_gym_sock

whatever units you use, my portfolio is so hot that it would be dangerous to look at it directly! ... so i don't know exactly how it's performed since january

eskbanker

bowlhead99 wrote: »

We all know 70 is T-shirt weather, 80, 90 is nice and hot, 100 is rare in this country but hotter than the blood in our veins hot.

And then at the other end of the scale we all know that 5 is pretty damn cold and 0 is freezing and -5 is really really cold. I know plenty of older people who talk about temperatures being in the 80s in the summer but they don't talk about it being in the mid 40s in winter, they switch to talking about 5 or 10 because it sounds closer to zero which everyone knows is ice... Mix n match is as good a response to metricisation as knowing that 40mpg is OK but £1.25 a litre feels a bit expensive.

Indeed, but one thing that all ages will agree on though is the knowledge that you don't get many bowlhead99 posts to the pound

ivormonee

eskbanker wrote: »

Indeed, but one thing that all ages will agree on though is the knowledge that you don't get many bowlhead99 posts to the pound

I think you mean to the kilo. Don't you?