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Grand Theft Roto: Identifying the important trends

By Shawn Peters
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

There are two ways of following trends, and to my mind, they result in very different outcomes. In fashion, one can blindly follow a trend and end up wearing parachute pants, a blazer with a hoodie underneath, or any number of other ill-advised looks. Or you can track trends until one arises that interests you. The same goes for economics. Some people sell when everyone else is selling, buy whatever everyone else is buying and then wonder why they aren't doing better. The guys who get rich stu ...

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