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The Mathematics of Money Management

Risk Analysis Techniques for Traders

Ralph Vince

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The Mathematics of Money Management is Ralph Vince's technical book on how bet size changes the path of a trading account. ChartClub lists the 1992 Wiley edition. Optimal-f math is not a license to size up.

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Author
Ralph Vince
Publisher
Wiley
Year
1992
Pages
400

Key takeaways

  • The subject is bet size, not trade selection.
  • The math shows how a large fraction can ruin the account.
  • A calculated optimal fraction is not a practical order size.
Wiley dates ISBN 978-0-471-54738-9 to August 1992, 400 pages. The subtitle is Risk Analysis Techniques for Traders. Vince works through drawdown, reinvestment, and the damage of betting too large even when a method has a positive expectation. The book is dense and numerical. A reader who wants a percentage-of-equity rule of thumb will not find a short answer. The formulas also assume a stream of trades that looks like the sample. Real trades are not that sample. Use it to see why position size can ruin a profitable idea. Do not use a calculated fraction as the size for the next trade without a much smaller practical limit.

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  • money-management

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