alpha
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“I think he really loves playing the alpha male who’s starting to crumble.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
He also courted strong and straight — and unavailable — alpha men to whom he appeared happy to play the beta role of political ingénue.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Investors are stepping back and saying ‘Where might the next leg of alpha come from?’” said Joshua Schachter, chief investment officer at Easterly Snow, referring to the trading term for outperforming market benchmarks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
This crash probability rose to 76% when a sector’s trailing two-year alpha rose to 125 percentage points, and to 80% when its trailing two-year alpha got as high as 150 percentage points.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Did it say to itself, “Super alpha is watching me—I better not move”? I don’t know.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
The table below lists the four S&P 1,500 sub-industry indexes with trailing two-year alphas of at least 100 percentage points, along with the two largest-cap stocks within each.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
Dr. Kelson is so lonely that he’s begun to befriend one of those spine-ripping alphas, whom he calls Samson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
He and coach Brendon McCullum are two alphas in the England dressing room, possibly leaving little room for the growth of other characters.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026
Dr. Phil, however, offered a different perspective, claiming both Swift and Kelce are alphas and pointed to their individual successes.
From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2024
We fired alphas, gammas, betas, the works, in wide dispersion, concentrated beam and just plain exposure.
From Make Mine Homogenized by Kelly Freas
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