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Re:Kelly Criterion – how to calculate optimal bet sizes by jsw97 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:18PM (#27452630)
Paul Samuelson wrote an article in 1979 on this. It contains only one-syllable words, except for the last word, which is "syllable". Title: "Why We Should Not Make Mean Log of Wealth Big though Years to Act Are Long."

His 1971 paper, "The 'Fallacy' of Maximizing the Geometric Mean in Long Sequences of Investing or Gambling" is more readable.

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