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do retail traders get any advantage from learning methods of mathematical of finance?
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if it could, it seems yet to be proven.  long term capital management was founded by a bunch of math whizzes and they seem to have missed something.  i'd never suggest that something has no value, but similar to the concept that "if time travel were possible, why hasn't anyone come back from the future to tell us" i'd suggest that if there were a real advantage to what you suggest, someone would be making money from it already.  in my opinion, the math is simple, little more than a four function calculator is needed.
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