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Two ice creams for a fiver! Blimey could have bought the Tonibell van and had 10 bob change last time i treated the wife0
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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.0
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Edit: Just remembered I have a Solero Exotic in the fridge that I'm going to call brunch
Still, I'm sure the fruit content qualifies it to be a continental breakfast.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.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/stationdata/heathrowdata.txt0 -
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.0
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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%"If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes” Warren Buffett
Save £12k in 2025 - #024 £1,450 / £15,000 (9%)0 -
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.txt0 -
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.0
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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 january0
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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.0
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