112: Jorge Soltero – Reminiscences of a Trader at Hull Trading Co.—and a Sell-Side Career
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How to Model Horse Racing Betting
I remember I was just thinking now in terms of gambling you know the NCAA tournament was a big a big recreational gambling thing that the guys did along with what was called then rotisserie baseball fantasy league baseball which was done by hand or or an Excel spreadsheets from data that you get from the newspapers. At the time it was all very manual intensive and I remember going to the off-track betting site with some of the guys from home one of them had a handheld but he had designed a quick and dirty model to see a horse betting so it was a bit of a disease with the guys that's waiting there to make a model try model everything that no matter what it was that
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