This crisis seriously shaken my attitude towards financial system. Ideas that was reasonable and clear in popular books collapsed facing reality
Tag: money
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VTB is stealing money
I have the spreadsheet to track changes in my broker accounts. So, once a month I use to move data from broker reports to this spreadsheet. Most time it’s just a boring and routine job. However, sometimes it could reveal interesting facts.
Alpha Defeat
Another long story finished recently. Crooks form Alpha-insurance were trying to get extra money. But choose a wrong target. It all begins in 2018…
Subsonic goes wrong
Not long ago I was bolstering that I have my own music server and don’t need to pay monthly to listen music I’ve already purchased. You could imagine my surprise when I saw the message in android app that my trial period of Subsonic license expired and I need to pay 1$ a month to […]
Trading
On the weekend I looked through Alexander Grechik book for traders. As usual in non-fiction books, a lot of space is filled with success description and advertiments of his own course, altough there is a lot of interesting things in it.
Data Science and Market
I finished another course by HarvardX on EdX. The second course was about data visualization and has two parts. The first part is about general rules for data visualization (like avoid pie charts and use the same axes for data comparison etc.). The second part is about ggplot2 package in R. I should say it’s […]
Banks comparison
I was applying for mortgage loan and could share my experience with different banks. I applied to five banks: DOM.RF, Alfabank, Sberbank, VTB and Raiffaisen.
Sovkomflot IPO
The entire month I’ve been reading about Sovkomflot IPO. It’s a Soviet-era company with a large number of cargo ships for transferring oil and liquid gas. This year is rather tough for the Russian government suffering from oil price plummeting and COVID pandemic. So, they decided to sell a part of the company.
Investing in Bonds Course
On this week I passed the final exam at Bonds course and got my certificate from Coursera. This course, to be honest, was just a waste of time. Prof. Stolyarov just read the basic things about bond types and focused the entire course on solving problems about bond pricing and yield to maturity values.
Personal Finance Course
This week I’ve finished the first course of specialization for individual investors on the Coursera platform. It was my second course with Prof. Berson and he is really awesome. Lots of examples and short, clear explanations. This course was more about planning and setting financial goals.