Big Brains, No Common (Part 1)

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Exclusively for Gold Members, this is an extract from Brian's forthcoming book: Maths isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. In my experience even people who excel at maths are inclined to get sucked into investments for a variety of poor reasons (glossy brochures, fund manager worship, or a great marketing story). Yet if a mathematical formula could tell me how likely I am to make money, not lose money, and give me an idea of my profits and a timescale, I would be very interested.