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Old 05-13-2005, 01:51 PM
Paluka Paluka is offline
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Default Re: Reconciling \"Random Walk\" with \"Market Wizards\"

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Warren Buffett made an interesting comment about trader performance records with his famous "coin flipping contest" argument. ie. Even with millions of participants in a huge tournament someone will still win the tournament. Does that make the winner an expert coin flipper?


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Obviously not, but I think the analogy is poor.

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I don't think the analogy is that far-off. My experience is that a good portion of the people profiled in the Market Wizards books are the "coin flippers" who got lucky. There are some notable exceptions, including the guy I work for.
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