The objective of this recommender system is to support stock market traders, individual investors and fund managers in their decisions by suggesting investment in a group of equity stocks when strong evidence of possible profit from these transactions is available.
When Wall Street was run by nonquants, there were lots of little disasters - scandals, rogue traders, individual firms going down - but because the traders were all making independent, uncorrelated bets, the blow-ups were relatively local, and the system as a whole kept chugging along.
Majority (n = 116) were low-traders; individuals in this cluster were less likely to trade survival time associated with treatment and accepted potential risks of treatment.
A small group (n = 31) was high-traders; individuals in this cluster were more likely to trade survival time that is associated with treatment to avoid potential risks of treatment.
Subramaniam adds: "Understandably this sort of financial information is regarded as quite private so unless absolutely necessary most sole traders and individuals are reluctant to share this information.
The guidelines set a broadly similar starting point for fines imposed against sole traders or individuals.
Old Prediction: Day traders -- individual investors using the Internet to trade stocks -- will become an increasingly important force, eventually achieving equal footing with large investment banks, institutional investors and major pension funds.
It is five years this week since the price of an ounce of gold shot through the $1,000 level – and there have never been more private gold traders and individual investors keen to keep their cash in the precious metal.
Hedge funds, high-frequency traders and even individuals with an online trading account who had existing low limit orders in place could have snapped up bargains as the bottom fell out of the markets.
"These are 'Type A' individuals, traders not investors," says Chris Young of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a proxy-research firm.Activists now sit on the boards of businesses such as Heinz, Wendy's and Applebee's, as well as Home Depot.
As Szasz put it, "the classification by slave owners and slave traders of certain individuals as Negroes was scientific, in the sense that whites were rarely classified as blacks.
