Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Absolutely.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. We just get to focus on assets and asset risk management. RITHOLTZ: And if only you could do that.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there. Why covered calls?

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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. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. Like Shahir is your person.

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