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contrarian

[kuhn-trair-ee-uhn] / kənˈtrɛər i ən /
NOUN
one who takes an opposing view
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This contrarian rebalancing tactic of selling top performers to pay for new bets adds “modest value over the long run,” writes Trivariate Research President Adam Parker.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Claude took 12 minutes to think about its bracket, which is more time than most humans devoted to this exercise, and crowned Illinois as its contrarian national champion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Systems of record: Van Geelen’s contrarian call here is sharp.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

Similar to another closely watched momentum gauge — the 14-day Relative Strength Index — the McClellan Oscillator can be a contrarian signal that the market is overstretched to the upside or downside.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis