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Adjective
/kənˈtre(ə)rēən/,/kän-/,
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contrarians, plural;
  1. Opposing or rejecting popular opinion; going against current practice
    • - the comment came more from a contrarian disposition than moral conviction
Noun
  1. A person who opposes or rejects popular opinion, esp. in stock exchange dealing

  1. an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors
  2. A contrarian is a person with a preference for taking a position opposed to that of the majority view prevalent in the group of which they are a part. A contrarian style of journalism, for instance Slate magazine, has been popular, but has also been the subject of severe criticism. ...
  3. a financial investor who tends to have an opinion of market trends at variance with most others; a person who expresses a contradicting viewpoint, especially one who denounces the majority persuasion
  4. An individual whose opinion is the opposite of the majority.
  5. is investing or trading in the opposite direction that the conventional wisdom or the mass group of people. The theory that “most people are wrong at about the worst time” can be used for further evidence that an opposite strategy would have higher odds of being correct. ...
  6. Investor who do the opposite of what most other investors are doing. In other words, if most investors are buying, the contrarian will sell and vice versa. ...
  7. An investment style that leads one to buy assets that have performed poorly and sell assets that have performed well. There are two possible reasons this strategy might work. ...
  8. Describes an investor that believes and does the exact opposite of what the majority of investors are doing at any given moment. For example, contrarians might perceive value in a stock or industry sector that is out of favor or has performed poorly. ...
  9. Investment decisions which are not based on the general market view (market consensus) and may be actively opposed to it.
  10. An investor who buys when most people are selling and sells when most people are buying.  In practice, this is very difficult to do, partly for psychological reasons, but if done successfully can improve returns.  Systematic rebalancing can be used to enforce contrarian behaviour.
  11. A trading or investing style based on sentiment. Contrarians are typically bullish when sentiment is excessively bearish. Contrarians are typically bearish when sentiment is excessively bullish. The Put/Call Ratio is sentiment indicator used by contrarians.
  12. investors buy (sometimes sell) stocks in the belief that they have been mis-priced by the “market”; the aim of course being to make a profit by doing so
  13. A style where the manager believes that they can add value by taking a different view to the market consensus.
  14. A person who deliberately takes the opposite view to that adopted by the general market, notably with respect to future movements in that market.
  15. An investor or trader who follows a style of buying assets that have declined in value, and selling assets that have risen. The contrarian argument states that securities tend to trade within a range and if a security moves out of that range, it should return to its usual level. ...
  16. A style of investment characterized by acting opposite to the crowd, and therefore exhibiting independent critical thinking. Value investors may sometimes be contrarian when the intrinsic value of a stock falls below its market price. More ...
  17. a person, typically an investor, who holds a view opposite to the mainstream. Warren Buffet is one of the most well-known contrarians.
  18. Favors stocks that are out-of-favor and are often turn-around candidates that are selling at or below traditional prices. Earnings are generally in a downward trend and the companies lack market sponsorship.
  19. Contrarian traders take positions against the prevailing market trend, that is, buy, or go long, when prices are falling and sell, or go short, when prices are rising. ...