Education Math Profit and Loss 
Barry Ritholtz
APRIL 8, 2025
And, you know, therein began, I think the unraveling and, and a little bit of the, the loss of that, you know, cultural juice that had kind of historically made that firm special. 00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? I don’t wanna experience loss. Just extreme.
Barry Ritholtz
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
And I found that subsegment really interesting because we did studies on kind of decision making biases, human biases like loss aversion and other biases that impact otherwise what should be rational decisions and make them less than rational. And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. Absolutely.
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The Big Picture
JUNE 16, 2025
Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. Ivanka said, oh no, you don’t have to be able to do math to do real estate 00:20:13 [Speaker Changed] Or investing for that math.
Barry Ritholtz
MAY 6, 2025
Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. And then when I was at Wharton, I didn’t think I was getting an education, so I decided to transfer into the College of Arts and Sciences. Not a great education. And I kept roughly half the profits and there was no training. Oh my God profit. Exactly right.
CFO News Room
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.
Barry Ritholtz
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. And so, it’s a little bit of an educational process, but …. It’s late in the summer in 2022, markets sold off 22, 24 percent, recovered about half of those losses …. RITHOLTZ: Sure.
Barry Ritholtz
JUNE 27, 2023
.” RITHOLTZ: So people also should realize, for those of you who’ve never traded futures, it’s not like options where essentially you could put up your losses in advance and all they could do is go to zero. RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance. And so it’s one of these things that math works.
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