
109: Edward Thorp – The Man Who Beat the Dealer, and Later, Beat the Market
Chat With Traders
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How to Maximize Your Expected Growth in Your Bankroll
Gambling is a master teacher because when the odds are computable like in Blackjack, there's a solution to how much to bet on any given situation. And if you're only betting in favorable situations, then the solution is that you bet an amount of roughly speaking equal to your expected edge or advantage divided by the amount of uncertainty there is in the bad. But I don't know exactly what's going to happen, this distribution is just an estimate based on past experience and the distribution might try not to be somewhat different than what I forecast many times.
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