Aaron Brown

Some of their guest lecturers include Bill Chen, a squash corner cont with two World Series of Poker bracelets, and Matt Laurinko, a former trader who won over a million dollars in a single poker tournament.

And there was Aaron Brown, a risk manager at AQR at the time.

Now, you might be thinking, what does poker have to do with making money in trading? Well, a lot more than you'd actually think.

I've taken four ideas from the MIT lectures and a Scott Skohana quant's own explanation and turned them into a roadmap for you on how to think about trading using some of the poker principles.