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Old 05-10-2008, 08:05 AM   #17 (permalink)
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A couple of things. Is this sort of thing difficult to program into a spreadsheet. I already have one with the required data in it. This could be some additioonal columns to this sheet therefore keeping everything together and minimizing double handling.
It should be a straightforward task in Visual Basic.

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Also, if I wanted to use a proportion of the full kelly can I just multiple the result % by that fraction or are the results not linear???
The results are definitely nonlinear. However, for fairly small edges (relative to odds) it should be a workable approximation.

I haven't figured out the closed-form solution to mutually exclusive outcome partial-Kelly, but it's probably not that difficult.
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