Should the Average Investor Consider Using Short Selling Techniques? Why

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Essay

Should the average investor consider using short selling techniques? Why or why not?

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Tchebysheff's Theorem

A statistical rule stating that for any set of data, regardless of distribution, a certain percentage of values will fall within a specific number of standard deviations from the mean.

Tchebysheff's Theorem

A statistical theorem stating that for any set of data, the proportion of results that lie within a certain number of standard deviations from the mean is at least 1-1/k^2, for k>1.

Z Score

A Z score, or standard score, is the number of standard deviations an observation is from the mean, used in statistics to compare observations from different datasets.

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