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and I wonder how much of your success / failure is luck vs advanced-anything. You could wager 7-figure bankrolls in vegas on blackjack or baccarat and _possibly_ double or triple it. Doesn't mean your equation-solving had anything to do with it (in fact it expressly doesn't in that case).


> and I wonder how much of your success / failure is luck vs advanced-anything

Well take someone who YOLO on a 0 DTE option and makes 80x (not unheard of) vs someone who wins the same amount over, say, four years and 8 000 trades... Well it's not impossible that the YOLOer is more skilled and has an edge (while also being a degen but that's not the point): it is just very unlikely.

Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of trades is not the same as "gambling one night in Vegas".


Strictly wrong:

- a casino is a random game

- stock market is a game of incomplete informatoin

The one cant related to the other by whatever equation.


The series of a shuffle of a 6-deck shoe is not "incomplete information"?


Taleb calls it the Ludic Fallacy (game fallacy)

The statistics of games are understandable, defined and easy to work with.

The statistics of markets, as Soros spent his career investigating, are filled with feedback loops, and as Taleb investigated, fat tails.




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