aslan said:
I don't think you need to eliminate the risk altogether to make it a sure thing. You could operate with say a 5% or 10% RoR and still come out fine. I say this because first of all, you will win in the long run, and second, I'm viewing your bankroll as replenishable. So, if I double my bankroll nine times and blow it one time, why should I be concerned? We focus too much on the long run possibly being a thousand years. The odds of that are probably a trillion to one. And we are often thinking of our bankroll as all that we can possible afford to lose. If that's all the money we have, then yes, we are setting ourselves up for disaster. The truth is, it takes money to make money, in general, not always. Too often we are trying to operate in the "not always" category, instead of the "general" category, in much the same way as a person tends to buy a house that he can scarcely afford, then suffers daily trying to make ends meet. Just look at what happened to Johnny Carson's sidekick, what's his name?
i've never tryed to figure it out myself just what it would take to go professional. what bankroll, how many hours a day all that. but i think most pro's would want a ROR of about 0.1% if i recall correctly.