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What risk actually means

Volatility, drawdown, Sharpe, CAGR. What each number measures, what it quietly leaves out, and what a large fall actually looks like while you are living through it.

Risk gets reduced to a single number more often than it should.

These notes take the usual measures one by one — what each one is, what it captures, and what it says nothing about. The most useful of them is not a ratio: it is knowing what a deep fall feels like before you meet one.

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