correlations
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If significant correlations were to exist between different periods’ gains or losses, traders would quickly arbitrage them away.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
Parker hunted for stocks that have correlations of 0.2 or lower to his AI basket—1 is perfectly correlated—and a gain of at least 10% in the past six months.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Still, he recognizes the correlations between himself, an aging gay artist with a complex legacy, and the far more disillusioned Julian.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
However, most of that evidence has been based on correlations, and the biological processes behind those links have remained unclear.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
Studies reporting small nonzero correlations are often merely reporting chance fluctuations, and are about as meaningful as a coin being flipped fifty times and not coming up heads half the time.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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