A partisan's (or an ideologue's) assessment of a situation doesn't depend on the situation. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I will use statistics and inductive methods to make aggressive bets, but I will not use them to manage my risks and exposure. ...[A]ll the surviving traders I know seem to have done the same. ...[T]hey make sure the cost of being wrong is limited ...they know ...which events would prove their conjecture wrong and allow for it ...They would then terminate their trade. This is called a stop loss ...I find it rarely practiced.

The main difference between Mediterraneans and nonMeds: Farniente (doing nothing) is active for a Med.

Nation-states like war; city-states like commerce; families like stability; and individuals like entertainment.