[David Sklansky]

I'm nitty when it comes to buying shirts. When it comes to gambling I take almost the exactly correct risks based on discretionary bankroll and the edge I conservatively estimate I have. The nit Daniel was describing in his article was not modelled after me. (More than twenty percent of my entire bankroll is in a highly specualtive stocks.)

Meanwhile your point about your risk tolerance being decided by age 15 is true but unacceptable. There is a theoretically correct risk tolerance. And if your own personal psychology pushes you too far away from it in EITHER direction, it behooves you to try to change.