Simple strategy (work in progress) full run:
Community Blog
Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournaments And Value Investing
Poker and investing are both about decisions amidst risk and uncertainty, played out in real time. The core of both poker and investing is the maximization of average profit based upon probability. In both activities, intuition is a dangerous guide. Quantitative reasoning, instead, is key to exploiting counter-parties. Both rely on the branch of economics known as utility theory. Utility theorists quantify preference orders such that a utility maximizer can determine how to make rational decisio…
Initiate short position: USD/CHF with target at 0.8750
The USD/CHF has been sending confusing signals over the last year - setting and re-setting weekly ranges (brown lines in chart above).
Having first identified a bearish divergence from Nov-12 to Jan-13, the USD/CHF traded 2x1 (time x price) creating a bearish zigzag pattern.
This pattern is setting up a nice downward trajectory. Having broken 0.9059, we will expect the USD/CHF to trade lower to 0.8250.
The last piece of the puzzle is to identify the strength of intra-day volatility. For it to b…