Finance and risk education from a CFA charterholder with 15 years in the markets and 20 years at the poker table. Learn to size your bets, protect your bankroll, and stay off tilt — whichever table you're playing.
Markets, poker, sports books — the names change, the math doesn't. Everything here teaches the same three disciplines: find your edge, size your bet, keep your head.
Trading and investing without the mysticism. How to read a company like a hand history, why process beats prediction, and how to be wrong half the time and still make money.
Read the reportsPoker, sports betting, and casino math for people who'd like to know exactly how much fun costs. Pot odds, implied odds, closing line value, and the house edge on everything.
See the gradesThe bridge between them, and the part nobody wants to study. Position sizing, Kelly and why you should bet less than Kelly, drawdowns, and tilt control — the real edge.
In the worksHistory's greatest gambles, graded honestly. Some paid off. Some ended in flames. The best ones did both — and every episode ends with the lesson you can actually use.
Payroll due: $24,000. Company account: $5,000. Fred Smith flew to Vegas and put the company on the blackjack table. "Without funds, we couldn't fly anyway."
One man beat the casino with math and compounded for fifty years. The other ran $50 into $40 million on pure fire — then gave back every dollar. Why one curve compounds and the other evaporates.
The smartest man alive FOMO'd back in at the top and lost a fortune. An accountant with a YouTube channel held through a 90% drawdown and won. Conviction and FOMO look identical — until the bill comes.
The calculators and reports I actually use — free to run, built to make the odds visible before the money moves.
What's moving markets today, before the open: the calendar, the headlines and the levels traders watch, each explained.
Read the lineFull interactive tear-sheets — moat, financials vs. industry, analyst consensus, 5-year chart with RSI. Every S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 name plus the most influential global stocks, ETFs, crypto and government bonds.
Browse the reportsThe house edge on every bet in eight casino games, a grade for each, and a variance simulator that plays a thousand sessions from the real odds.
See the gradesA simulated table with real rules and shuffles. Learn the chart, then learn to count — every decision graded against basic strategy or the count.
Take a seatCraps, baccarat and Three Card Poker with play money; every bet priced before it's placed.
Take a seatIn the works: a bankroll sizer (Kelly, fractional Kelly and drawdowns), a portfolio analyzer, and a gift shop of cards, chips and dice.
I answered a classified ad and became a prop trader. I sat down at a poker table and became a student of variance. Fifteen-plus years trading and investing, twenty-plus playing cards, and a CFA charter later, I noticed something: the people blowing up in markets and the people blowing up at casinos were making the exact same mistakes — with different vocabulary.
The Tilted Gent is the course I wish someone had handed me before either table took my money. Story first, math second, lecture never. Be wrong half the time and still profit — that's not a slogan, it's an expected-value calculation, and I'll show you the arithmetic.