Saturday, November 21, 2009

Who Makes A Good Trader

Bloomberg has an interesting article about who makes good traders.

Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University's Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional card players


Before, we were asking about GPA or the Math/Physics Olympiad," Satanovsky, a former Russian national bridge champion, said in a telephone interview. "Now, we're asking questions about poker successes."
You can read the article by clicking the link below:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=alximP6.Eta8


 Our Comments: On a lighter note -Sounds  familiar, do you know  that some of the averaging methods like pyramiding trading,Martingale (probability theory) comes from gambling world and  The name Monte Carlo Method is a reference to the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco.

Have  a nice weekend.

 

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