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  • firestone
    firestone Posts: 520 Forumite
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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 wife
  • ivormonee
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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.
  • bowlhead99
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    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
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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.
    Or smart beta - I'm sure that's really important in the context of global warming.
  • george4064
    george4064 Posts: 2,934 Forumite
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    edited 6 May 2018 at 2:53PM
    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%)
  • ivormonee
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    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
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    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
    grey_gym_sock Posts: 4,508 Forumite
    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
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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.
    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
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    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?
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