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Old 02-08-2007, 11:38 AM
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Default Re: Variance

To calculate the odds you need to know the probability of winning. To make this easier, are you speaking of typical 11 to win 10 odds with a ~55% chance of winning? If not then you'll need to be more specific.

As you can imagine you're more likely to go down with say a ~25% chance of winning than you are with a ~75% chance of winning (even though both have a 5% expected return over the long term).
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