Leverage Math Profit and Loss 
Barry Ritholtz
APRIL 17, 2025
Fees of 2% plus 20% of the profits are a huge drag on performance. The SVB loss served me right; it was a reminder of how quickly I get cocky and arrogant after a score. These two possibilities a 10-fold increase versus a 90% drop are roughly symmetrical in terms of math (but probably not probabilities).
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.
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CFO News Room
DECEMBER 13, 2022
He’s a loss leader.” Leveraging Dinner Seminars And Third-Party Marketing Solutions To Rebuild A Client Base [50:11]. I could have worked more hours, I could have been even more efficient and effective in what I was doing. But it worked well enough to take me from, “Hey, you really should fire this guy.
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 …. It’s late in the summer in 2022, markets sold off 22, 24 percent, recovered about half of those losses ….
Barry Ritholtz
MARCH 27, 2023
And these were real bankruptcies, led by a supply-demand imbalance, too much leverage and not enough demand for the products. It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. That’s an amazing lesson in life, right, to take failure and losses as business as usual. MIELLE: Yes. MIELLE: It is money.
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.
Barry Ritholtz
AUGUST 20, 2024
00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. So the actual source of profitability in that trade is not the level of the vix, but the shape of the vol surface.
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