{"id":24256,"date":"2014-04-09T18:37:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T00:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=24256"},"modified":"2014-04-09T21:12:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T03:12:29","slug":"bet-on-april-uah-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2014\/bet-on-april-uah-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bet on April UAH."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s April. A Daffodil is blooming in my yard. I see no snow. I am hoping to see tulips, hyacinths and other pretty flowers soon. We are planning my birthday celebration.  <\/p>\n<p>More importantly, it&#8217;s time to bet on the UAH temperature.<br \/>\n[sockulator(..\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/UAHBets5.php?Metric=UAH TTL?Units=C?cutOffMonth=4?cutOffDay=16?cutOffYear=2014?DateMetric=April, 2014?)sockulator]<br \/>\nDeadline 4\/15\/2014. <\/p>\n<p>Tips: El Nino seems to be anticipated&#8211; but it is not here yet.  The strategy of &#8216;betting the current temperature&#8221; worked last month, but it usually does not. The problem with that strategy is you often get close to the right temperature, but are easily edged out because bets may cluster. If you do use this strategy, remember: ties go to the person who best first. So, bet early.  <\/p>\n<p>In contrast, bets are not clustered in the tails and you are less likely to experience losing out on quatloos when the tie goes to the earlier better. But you can easily be <I>way<\/I> off. You be the judge of your best strategy!<\/p>\n<p>Good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s April. A Daffodil is blooming in my yard. I see no snow. I am hoping to see tulips, hyacinths and other pretty flowers soon. We are planning my birthday celebration. More importantly, it&#8217;s time to bet on the UAH temperature. [sockulator(..\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/UAHBets5.php?Metric=UAH TTL?Units=C?cutOffMonth=4?cutOffDay=16?cutOffYear=2014?DateMetric=April, 2014?)sockulator] Deadline 4\/15\/2014. Tips: El Nino seems to be anticipated&#8211; but it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2014\/bet-on-april-uah-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bet on April UAH.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}