Russell O'Connor

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I have my Ph.D. in Science from Radboud University Nijmegen . I have my bachelor’s of mathematics in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo .

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Kelly Criterion (2007)

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It’s fairly clear when one should buy a particular stock. One should buy stock when it is undervalued. What I have always wondered about is how much stock one should buy. A few months ago I stumbled upon the answer which is given by the Kelly criterion . It says that one should invest an amount to maximize one’s…