Ed Thorp: Having the Edge on the Market

Ed Thorp: Having the Edge on the Market: "'The overlap of interest between gambling and the stock market is very high. It's an amazing phenomenon,' says Thorp. 'But there are so many similarities and so much one can teach you about the other. Actually, gambling can teach you more about the stock market than the other way around. Gambling provides an analytically simpler world, and you can see principles and test theories.'"