{"id":17472,"date":"2012-01-26T13:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T18:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=17472"},"modified":"2016-09-20T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:05:51","slug":"initial-claims-too-volatile-lets-smooth-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/initial-claims-too-volatile-lets-smooth-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Claims &#8211; Too Volatile, Lets Smooth It Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-disciplined-investor\/id217999782\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-257 alignright\" title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/itunes_subscribe3-3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Each week we are treated to the 8:30 am edition of <strong>THESE ARE YOUR CLAIMS<\/strong> &#8211; A reprisal of the old show from years ago. In this edition, the claims are presented without any reference to seasonality or any other relevance, except for &#8220;expectations&#8221; of analysts. Markets trade on the news of this and continuing claims like it actually means<!--more--> something.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-17476\" title=\"this is life\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/_d_improd_\/this-is-life_f_improf_198x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A better idea may be to look at the trend in order o make a more complete opinion. Even better would be to have an understanding of how seasonality. But, I don&#8217;t even think that the Department of Labor has a handle on that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17475\" title=\"initial\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/initial-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @andrewhorowitz<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week we are treated to the 8:30 am edition of THESE ARE YOUR CLAIMS &#8211; A reprisal of the old show from years ago. In this edition, the claims are presented without any reference to seasonality or any other relevance, except for &#8220;expectations&#8221; of analysts. Markets trade on the news of this and continuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-17472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}