Edward O. Thorp doesn’t look like an outlaw. The man greeting me in his Newport Beach business office stands ramrod straight with the studied mien of a mathematics professor — which he was at ...

Edward Thorp has achieved a 20% annual return for 30 years trading options and investing in securities. This post covers some of Thorps opinions on his success and methods for navigate the ...

It's 1964 and Edward Thorp is on the television game show To Tell The Truth, sitting alongside two other well-dressed men also claiming to be Edward Thorp, a man so adept at card counting that he ...

Ed Thorp is arguably one of the most successful straight money managers in history, and it all started with trip to Las Vegas in the late 1950s. During his visit, the recent PhD in mathematics ...

It's tempting to think of Edward Thorp, the author of A Man for All Markets, as the Forrest Gump of finance. Intellectually, the two have nothing in common -- Thorp is a genius.

But until Ed Thorp came along, no one had figured out how to beat it. Thorp has just written a book called "A Man For All Markets" about how he did just that. He beat blackjack and then he went on ...

Zerodha co-founder Nithin Kamath sparked online discussions by sharing the longevity wisdom of 92-year-old mathematician Edward Thorp. Calling his advice “brilliant,” Kamath’s post on X ...