Mathprof,are you aware of strategic analysis in management science???

Your statistics in business consists mostly of amateurs, ploppies in wall street and entrepreneurism.

Heard of competitive advantage from management science? Which is exact to ev, an "environmental analysis" is a study of market conditions, transferring to bj, this is game conditions.

Professionals use important economic tools to gauge the advantage, penetration, no of decks, etc is socio-econ factors, political-legal, etc.

The 90% failure rate is nothing compare to the ploppy rate in Las Vegas. That is why Warren Buffet, Ken Fisher, Peter Lynch looks for management's track record.

(Let's ignore the weak-form of random walk for now)

Please repost your question addressed to a wider audience. Then we will remove this one addressed to MathProf only.

Stanford Wong

I think it is wrong and stupid to address posts to one person only.

If something is meant for only one person and not the rest of of us, then it should be communicated by e-mail to that person so not to clutter the board for the rest of us. Although there are exceptions, those type posts generally have little or no value as they are typically an attempt to either put down the recipient in front of others or showcase the poster's self-perceived superior knowlege. Anyone seriously wanting help or wanting to help others in advancing our bj play, which is the purpose of this forum, would be best served by addressing posts to everyone.

If it is meant for all, then it should be posted as such so that more people will read and benefit from it, as well as possibly contribute input to an issue.

Midway through a thread I could see someone drawing a particular person's attention to a point he had expressed some opinion on earlier.

IMO he was only trying to get his attention, so that he could get an answer from him.