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by scoofy 1501 days ago
Nassim Taleb's academic papers are all about the fun math of risk-management. He basically invented the barbell/butterfly strategy which is effectively a "normal distribution risk profile" to "students t distribution risk profile" arbitrage, where you are making a big bet that the market underestimates both the downside risk and upside rewards of equities in general.

Very bizarre strategy, but really, really interesting.

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Awesome! Thank you!