Education Math Profit and Loss 
CFO News Room
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.
Barry Ritholtz
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. And so, it’s a little bit of an educational process, but …. It’s late in the summer in 2022, markets sold off 22, 24 percent, recovered about half of those losses …. RITHOLTZ: Sure.
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Barry Ritholtz
JUNE 27, 2023
.” RITHOLTZ: So people also should realize, for those of you who’ve never traded futures, it’s not like options where essentially you could put up your losses in advance and all they could do is go to zero. RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance. And so it’s one of these things that math works.
Barry Ritholtz
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
And I found that subsegment really interesting because we did studies on kind of decision making biases, human biases like loss aversion and other biases that impact otherwise what should be rational decisions and make them less than rational. And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. Absolutely.
Barry Ritholtz
MARCH 27, 2023
It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. But if you look at luck in the much broader context of I was born in a free, wealthy country, France, to parents who were both educated and value education, not particularly wealthy but middle class, upper middle class, right? RITHOLTZ: It’s alpha.
Barry Ritholtz
MAY 30, 2023
So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. You don’t give them education, so they don’t know any, they can’t only have a skillset. My dad thought that cash flow was profit.
Barry Ritholtz
JUNE 18, 2024
And they had a belief at the time of driving growth profitably whereby you could organically acquire customers. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. Was it a loss? It, it’s education that you get paid for, which is awesome, huh. That’s a great question.
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