After immersing myself for years and years in the world of finance
(specifically, options market making and algorithmic trading), there
was no escaping this mantra of “no risk, no reward.” Most of the
time, my (trading) style was fairly risk-averse. I knew how to find
the signals of opportunities among the daily noise to reap small
rewards. Fortunately, I also learned how to think about the outliers
and to take the occasional big but calculated risks.