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sample

English translation: collection / set of cases selected to conduct a study on it

04:34 Jun 2, 2019
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - Economics
English term or phrase: sample
Context:

A strategy that buys, and then rolls, one-month, at-the-money S&P 500 put options performs well in each of the seven crises.
However, it is very costly during the ‘normal’ times, which constitute 86% of our sample, and as such seems too expensive to be a viable crisis hedge.
Nam Vo
Vietnam
Local time: 22:30
Selected answer:collection / set of cases selected to conduct a study on it
Explanation:
just the most ordinary meaning of "sample".
Somewhere else, in the preceding text, must be the description of this sample, i.e. what was included in it and/or on the basis of which criteria.

Looks like they collected their sample from trading histories of various stock exchange traders.







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Note added at 4 hrs (2019-06-02 08:50:21 GMT)
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86% of selected "records of trading history" related to "normal times" while the remaining 14% was about trading in"crisis times"
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Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:30
Grading comment
Thank you very much :
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +2collection / set of cases selected to conduct a study on it
Daryo


  

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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
collection / set of cases selected to conduct a study on it


Explanation:
just the most ordinary meaning of "sample".
Somewhere else, in the preceding text, must be the description of this sample, i.e. what was included in it and/or on the basis of which criteria.

Looks like they collected their sample from trading histories of various stock exchange traders.







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Note added at 4 hrs (2019-06-02 08:50:21 GMT)
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86% of selected "records of trading history" related to "normal times" while the remaining 14% was about trading in"crisis times"


Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you very much :
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you very much. I thought it had a special meaning in the financial context, but looks like it's not. Thanks!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: selection chosen, NOT collection selected
2 hrs
  -> That depends on the method used - not all studies are rigorous - they maybe simply collected whatever data they could lay their hands on without worrying about the set of samples being "representative" or not ... Thanks!
agree  Donna Stevens
5 hrs
  -> Thanks!
agree  Tina Vonhof (X): Collection is not the right term but cases selected is fine.
7 hrs
  -> That depends on the fine points of the methodology they used, which we don't know. Maybe they had some "selection criteria", maybe they just collected any data that happened to be available. Thanks!
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