While this is mainly a business blog, I discovered one fine post from my old blog about investing and I thought I'd share it with you. At the time of publishing this post I felt it might be good idea to talk about the game of probabilities and stock markets (well, I still do). I have no intention to dive deep into this topic. However, I think it would be interesting to look at the market as a game of probabilities. Good poker players use the probability theory all the time. They know what is the...
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The old saying that you should only bet what you can afford to lose is wrong. Unless what you can afford to lose is something big, maybe 100% of your fortune? Okay, that’s usually too much but I hope you get the idea. The thing is that usually the amount you can afford to lose is too little to do you any good even if you manage to doubble or even tripple it. You play on stockmarkets with 100 bucks, you win 100 bucks extra. Did it really mak...
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