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Re: CFA journal.. 88 days of Shaolin Monk level of abstinence and discipline! Hopeful

What was/is your undergrad? Shouldn't you know a good proportion of those words already (assuming finance major)?

Good luck. Level 1 isn't too rekt.
 

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What was/is your undergrad? Shouldn't you know a good proportion of those words already (assuming finance major)?

Good luck. Level 1 isn't too rekt.
Yes, finance major. But still a lot of the words are new to me. I will SRS all the glossaries whether I have learnt them in my bachelor or not.
 

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Finished reading R46. market indices. 18 vocab added. Total 122 glossary cards.

broad market indexes
constituent securities
divisor
equal weighting
float-adjusted market-capitalization weighting
fundamental weighting
market float
market-capitalization weighting
multi-market indices
price index
price return
price return index
price weighting
rebalancing
sector indices
security market index
total return
total return index
 

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Next bitch, R51. Fixed -Income Securities: Defining elements.

 

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Finished reading R51.

Nine acronyms added. Total 114.

CPI
TIPS
GSE
FRN
PIK
TIIS
ELN
CoCos
ZCB

59 vocab added. total 181.

amortizing bond
balloon payment
basis point
bearer bonds
bermuda-style
bond
callable bond
capital market securities
capital-indexed bonds
collateral
collateral trust bonds
contingency provision
contingent convertible bonds
conventional bond
conversion price
conversion ratio
conversion value
convertible bond
covenants
covered bond
credit enhancements
credit-linked coupon bond
currency option bonds
current yield
debenture
deferred coupon bond
dual-currency bonds
embedded option
equipment trust certificates
equity-linked note
Eurobonds
floaters
floating-rate notes
indenture
index-linked bond
inflation-linked bond
letter of credit
linker
money market securities
mortgage-backed security
perpetual bonds
plain vanilla bond
principal value (bond)
pure discount bonds
putable bonds
redemption yield
registered bonds
secured bonds
securitized bonds
split coupon bond
step-up coupon bond
surety bond
tenor
trust deed
variable-rate note
warrant
yield to maturity
yield to redemption
zero-coupon bonds
 

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Next corporate finance a go. Next reading would be R47. Market Efficiency.

 
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Just learnt LaTeX to create simple formulas.

Formula Notes generated as follow.

 

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what software are you using ??
 

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Finished reading R47. Market Efficiency.

25 Vocabularies added.

active investment
active return
arbitrage
behavioural finance
data mining
data snooping
earnings surprise
efficient market
fundamental analysis
fundamental value
herding
information cascade
informationally efficient market
intrinsic value
January effect
market anomaly
market value
passive investment
risk aversion
semi-strong-form efficient market
short selling
strong-form efficient market
technical analysis
turn-of-the-year effect
weak-form efficient market hypothesis

Total 206 vocabulary cards.
 

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END of Week 37



Read 4 reading, 4/60 reading.

Acronyms: Total 114 added and studied.



Vocubs: Total 206 added and 0 studied. :eek2:



Formula: 1 Added and 0 studies. :evilfire:

I'll will study harder next week! I promise! 12 weeks left. Need Asian mode.
 

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Interesting video. From 74 reading down to 60?

 
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82 days left.

Didn't study since Saturday, did some revision of session 13.

31 vocabs added. Total 231.

abnormal return
blue chip
bullet bond
calendar anomalies
conversion parity
conversion premium
efficient market hypothesis
equity
exotic bond
face value
global bond
growth stock
information acquisition cost
insider trading
investment grade
loss aversion
Market-capitalization indices
momentum anomaly
non-investment grade
overreaction effect
par value
price return
reconstitution
running yield
size effect
speculative grade
style indices
technician
total return
transaction cost
value stock
value weighting


Four Acronyms added. Total 117.

EMH
SEC
NAV
 
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Goal for Week 38 is finish reading Session 14 and 15.
 

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Finished reading R48. Overview of Equity Securities.

31 vocab added. total. 262

American depository receipt
American depository share
basket of listed depository receipts
book value
callable common shares
common shares
convertible preference shares
cost of debt
cumulative preference shares
cumulative voting
depository bank
depository receipt
equity
foreign exchange gains
global depository receipt
global registered share
leveraged buyout
management buyout
non-cumulative preference shares
non-participating preference shares
participating preference shares
preference shares
private equity securities
private investment in public equity
putable common shares
return on equity
sponsored
statutory voting
unsponsored
venture capital
vote by proxy

Two acronyms added. Total 119
DR
BLDR

One formula added. 2 Total.

return on equity (R48.7.1)
 
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Finished reading R49. Introduction to Industry and Company Analysis.

16 vocabs added, total 278 cards.

company analysis
competitive strategy
cyclical company
economic profit
experience curve
income trust
industry
industry analysis
life-cycle stage
peer group
Porter's five forces
principal business activity
return on invested capital
sector
strategic analysis
strategic groups

3 new acronyms added. Total of 122 cards.

ROIC
DCF model
GICS
 

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Need to stop playing skyrim...
 
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Spend the whole day adding a thousand practice questions from the official CFA material end of the reading into cards.
 

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75 days left. Read R5 and R6, revised R46 and 47.

Vocab cards reset.
 

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Finished reading R22. FRA introduction.

Studied/Added 9 vocab cards, 3 acronyms and 8 practice problems.

ISA
MD&A
OCI

clean opinion
comparability (accounting)
disclaimer of opinion
financial statement footnote
liquidity of a company
owners’ equity
proxy statement
solvency
unqualified opinion
 
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Revised R48. Added 4 acronyms and 7 vocabs. And did 24 practice problems.

ADR
BVE
BVPS
PIPE

preferred stock
mezzanine financing
market value of equity
market-to-book ratio
price-to-book ratio
book value of equity
book value equity per share
 

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