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The Dangerous Mathematics of Stock Market Speculation

The Dangerous Mathematics of Stock Market Speculation

To illustrate this, let’s take the example of two portfolios.

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Nov 30, 2021
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The beginning of 2021 was hectic in the stock markets with extreme cases of speculation: the Gamestop case, the return of the cryptocurrency market, the excessive media coverage of WallStreetBets, and so many others…

With the ubiquity of social media, the drop in trading fees to near zero (for some brokerages), and the tedium of confinement: it has never…

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