"Understanding and dealing correctly with the trade-off between risk and return is a fundamental, but poorly understood, challenge faced by all gamblers and investors."

— Edward O. Thorp

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"Understanding and dealing correctly with the trade-off between risk and return is a fundamental, but poorly understood, challenge faced by all gamblers and investors."

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Era: Post-War Boom

Region: Options

Edward O. Thorp

Edward O. Thorp

1932 – Present
Post-War Boom Options

American mathematician, hedge-fund manager and author, and a pioneer of quantitative investing. He devised the first scientific blackjack card-counting system and, with Sheen Kassouf, an early options-pricing and delta-hedging model that anticipated Black-Scholes. He ran the market-beating fund Princeton/Newport Partners and wrote the memoir "A Man for All Markets."

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