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by Retric 1753 days ago
Depends completely on the risk vs reward. Black swans are more common than can be assumed from modeling past data so in general a slightly more conservative strategy than industry standard is more likely to win.

For example COVID style shutdowns could be reasonably modeled at X% per year after talking to a disease specialist. But, not all of them are going to be from diseases.