Use "discretionary" in a sentence

1. altogether discretionary in the parish officers either to grant or to refuse it

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2. discretionary; and the persons who exercise it, neither attending upon the lectures of the teacher themselves, nor perhaps understanding the sciences which it is his business to teach, are seldom capable of exercising it with judgment

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3. How long will it take for Republicans to wise up to the fact that (all) the entitlement and discretionary spending in (all) the world will never earn them the gratitude of Democrats and that every spending initiative that they (Democrats) would have otherwise supported, were they in power, further invites criticism? President Bush, the man who would be loved by all, continues to set himself up as an easy target by his political opponents looking for every plausible excuse to discredit him

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4. On the contrary, discretionary spending by this Republican Administration would make L

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5. This discretionary and unofficial power invariably leads to the abuse of power, often

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6. Manage discretionary spending closely

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7. An added bonus is that you will also immediately know how much money you have left over for entertainment, vacation and other discretionary items

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8. Normally very different things! The initial realization of the amounts (usually larger than we think!), involved on incidental, discretionary and impulse buying is an eye-opener for most and ends up saving families all kinds of money they never knew they had

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9. be moving in a discretionary way towards females at the moment

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10. Employee engagement is a concept that is generally viewed as managing discretionary effort; that is, when employees have choices, they will act in a way that furthers their organization’s interests

11. confidence is also measured as an important indicator of the propensity of consumers who have discretionary income to switch from saving to buying

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12. If the consumer has enough discretionary income, or enough credit for that matter, then more merchandise will be produced or imported

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13. "extras" are strictly discretionary

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14. business move, and the fans seem to have a good deal of discretionary

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15. by riskier consumer discretionary stocks

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16. Discretionary bonuses and rewards can be used prior to a sale

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17. the report would start to layer in discretionary expenses, cash permitting

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18. Why then, do so few choose to liberate themselves and be the best possible, hold fast instead to selective sight, discretionary hearing, cautious speech, and insulated hearts, while they allow their minds to be overstuffed with others’ views?

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19. Those lifestyle-energizing items are what monied folks buy with what's called in financial circles, "discretionary income

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20. “The wording, discretionary killing, was specifically chosen to cover not only a single accidental execution, but also the case of an unintentional mass killing in pursuit of one or more justifiably erroneously suspected terrorists, deranged criminals or people of interest

21. This debt generally adheres to one of the following criteria: default rates for the particular debt are in the double digit, more debt is accumulated that what can comfortably be paid back; the interest rates of the obligation are subject to discretionary changes

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22. and discretionary resources to improve the conditions of other parts the whole, then not only

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23. We will leave a discretionary force of eighty thousand men to keep the Valley Landers bottled up within their nearest city, which will secure our open supply line with the homeland through the pass, should we need it

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24. “I’m treasurer of the Kill Club; I have a certain amount of discretionary funds

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25. These tools are examined in detail in Chapter 7 and Appendix B, but the focus here will be on actually using them to delineate market structure in a discretionary context

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26. These tools may be applied in a strict, quantitative manner, either singly or in combination with other indicators, or they may be used as discretionary inputs into a more extensive process

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27. One important question for discretionary traders to consider is how to weigh objective and subjective elements in technical analysis

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28. We will look at several variations of this trade, but the concept of using pullbacks in trending markets is one of the most robust discretionary trading techniques

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29. This combination of a breakout trade nested within a pullback is a powerful tool for discretionary traders on all time frames

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30. The slope of a moving average is another subjective application that does not test out well in quantitative testing, but it can be useful as a scanning tool or as a cue for the developing discretionary trader

31. A better way for discretionary traders to use bands is to look for touches of or excursions outside the bands, and then to carefully monitor price action following those events, treating the band as an alert level

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32. For a discretionary trader, this is a useful illustration of quantifying a fundamental principle of price behavior through the structure of an indicator

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33. These have already been formalized in some of the trade entries in Chapter 7, but this is a rewarding area of study for discretionary traders

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34. There is also a lesson here for discretionary traders: though you may want to focus much of your attention on relative strength leaders, blindly buying them is probably not a path to success

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35. Though it is difficult to trade the Parabolic as a stand-alone system in the always-in context that was originally intended, it can be an extremely useful tool for discretionary traders who can turn to the Parabolic for trailing stop levels in trending markets

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36. My experience is that good discretionary traders will outperform any rule-based trailing stop methodology over a large set of trades

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37. There will be exceptions, but discretionary traders will know when to stop out of trades before the rule-based level is reached, or will also know that sometimes they should let the trailing stop’s level break without actually exiting the trade

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38. Some discretionary traders will use a tool such as the Parabolic as a reference, incorporating it into the trade management process in various ways

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39. These are certainly valid approaches to trade management, but most discretionary traders will gravitate toward a more active style that allows them to make decisions while the trade is underway

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40. This is, in fact, one of the main reasons for being a discretionary trader, but it raises some questions

41. A trader working with a system like this, or with a discretionary approach that is similar, will find that adding to existing trades is usually a mistake because the statistical edge identified by the condition is usually strongest right at the entry point

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42. This is one of the most underutilized techniques available to the self-directed discretionary trader

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43. ” However, there is one rule that cannot be broken—it is perhaps the single most important rule in discretionary trading: Always know where you are getting out of the trade if you are wrong, before you get in

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44. For the self-directed discretionary trader, this is an important element of the trading plan that deserves careful consideration and study

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45. Until you fully assimilate this truth, you will struggle—this is probably the one belief the separates profitable discretionary traders from everyone else

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46. Many discretionary traders will resist the idea of a systematic, structured approach to trading, but I am not advocating that—I am, however, pointing out the necessity of that approach in analysis and in designing your trading system

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47. This is why any system, including a discretionary one, should be subject to some sort of control process, similar to the ones used in manufacturing and quality control (see Chapter 12)

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48. A discretionary trader is someone who trades based on a strong understanding of the fundamental principles of price behavior

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49. Many outsiders and developing traders assume that discretionary traders rely on a nearly supernatural sense of what will happen next

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50. In general, this is not true, as most discretionary trades are placed according to more or less clearly defined rules

51. Good discretionary traders have a passion for understanding how the market really works and for what drives unfolding price movements, and they are also willing to let go of preconceptions and theories immediately if they are disproven by the market

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52. All good discretionary traders are statistics junkies, whether they know it or not

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53. The reason is that most discretionary traders find it easier to read a market when there is a position and fluctuating P&L involved

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54. Dealing with the psychological stresses of trading is one of the core skills of competent discretionary trading, and it is something that requires ongoing maintenance throughout a career

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55. Also, if you choose to be a discretionary trader, carefully consider why you made that choice

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56. Many discretionary traders avoid the systematic route because of laziness or because they lack the quantitative skills to really understand system development

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57. Discretionary trading is probably the hardest trading there is; it takes more work, more time, more analysis, more self-reflection, and more self-control to achieve success in this arena than in any other type of trading

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58. In addition, if you are a discretionary trader, you are the most important element of your system

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59. Good discretionary traders who find success over the long haul develop a system to monitor themselves and their emotional state, and usually reduce their risk at times when they are not at their peak performance level

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60. As a self-directed, discretionary trader, you are a major component of your trading success and failure

61. A chart of these price changes is the natural solution, and many discretionary traders find that charts present market information in a way that is both intuitive and useful

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62. discretionary trading A style of trading that allows varying degrees of human input in trading decisions

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63. Much of this book deals with discretionary trading, but you can use the tools described in it for mechanical trading

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64. This point is important because the GP has a lot of discretion over how much of the available cash is actually redistributed to shareholders and how much will be used for operations related to the MLP — the difference between distributable cash flow and discretionary cash flow

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65. There is obviously a fee for this service as well, though it is lower than for the complete discretionary operation

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66. Now we have created a bionic discretionary trader, producing increased P&L

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67. Add to that, most prop firms were scaling back at this time as discretionary traders were mostly unprofitable

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68. He showed everyone that you could make serious P&L as a discretionary trader during market conditions where many were failing—even the scores of consistently profitable experienced traders across the Street

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69. The mind of a guy who can never become a successful discretionary trader

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70. In short, discretionary traders should become more bionic

71. They will be multiproduct, multimarket, bionic discretionary traders with automated models

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72. Our discretionary traders are bionic with state-of-the-art proprietary scanning software and quant support that ensures they are alerted to all of their favorite custom setups

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73. The JV possesses technology that enables our discretionary traders to create automated trading strategies without the need to code and with the support of quants

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74. Software has been developed so that discretionary traders can build automated trading strategies without the necessity to code

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75. Tools are available for discretionary traders to be more bionic and dramatically improve their P&L

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76. Would it not be better to prescribe a few really important criteria, which must be followed in every instance, and then give the Banking Board discretionary power to exclude issues that meet these minimum requirements but still are not sound enough in its conservative judgment?

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77. Interest Payment Sometimes Wholly Discretionary

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78. The discretionary power over the dividend policy may also be abused in more sinister fashion, sometimes to permit the acquisition of shares at an unduly low price, at other times to facilitate unloading at a high quotation

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79. These facts, thus briefly stated, illustrate the vicious possibilities inherent in permitting managements to exercise discretionary powers to purchase shares with the company’s funds

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80. Other discretionary spending will be deferred, and revenue will be accelerated wherever possible

81. • The systematic portion of my model has no discretionary intervention

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82. That said, my model does have a discretionary component that I added in mid-2009

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83. My intuition says the discretionary component can further boost the returns of the model, which is wholly systematic

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84. Time will tell whether my discretionary intervention can enhance my model’s systematic returns

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85. What is discretionary intervention, and how does it apply to this model?

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86. While the primary force behind my model will be systematic since it has proven out over the years as a guide to my trading, I will on some occasions issue a sidebar discretionary signal to alert the www

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87. Again, while my intuition says such discretionary intervention should improve the systematic results, I hold to my original thought: I figured if someone with O’Neil’s extensive market experience could get whipsawed during challenging, trendless markets, perhaps it is better to stick with the set of systematic rules that have statistically proven themselves based on actual price/volume action of the major indices

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88. Examples of discretionary intervention include:• Enough leading stocks breaking out of sound basing patterns, such as we saw in March 1996 when stocks such as Iomega (IOM) were breaking out to new highs

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89. Should I use the systematic or discretionary portion of the model in my own trading?

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90. The discretionary portion has the advantage of position sizing and the occasional override

91. In practice, investors can decide whether to work off the discretionary portion using leveraged ETFs or the plain-Jane systematic portion where the model simply goes 100 percent long or short the QQQQs if it is not in cash

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92. Will all the boomers pull their money out of the stock market at age 65 and become frugal and sit on their cash? Will the boomers put more money into investments because they realize the issue of outliving their money is real? Will boomers continue to enjoy life and shy away from saving and enjoy life by spending on discretionary items?

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93. The more discretionary a product or service is, the more earnings will fluctuate

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94. At the other extreme are discretionary products and services, on which customers are less dependent

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95. Discretionary costs include advertising, R&D expenses, and maintenance costs

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96. There is evidence that veterinary spending is becoming less discretionary, with people more likely to demand higher-quality vet care and less likely to defer spending during downturns

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97. In contrast, a short-term oriented manager considers spending money on training employees a waste of money and a discretionary cost that can be eliminated

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98. For example, Whole Foods Market invested the majority of its discretionary free-cash flow in new store openings

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99. The only ways to test his system was to paper trade or use a simulator; but his stock picking was too subjective and discretionary to program into software

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