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CMT Level 1 Notes

The CMT certification stands for Chartered Market Technician. It is like what a CFA is to financial analysis but the CMT is equivalent to technical analysis. As I am studying for the level 1 exam below are my notes for quick reference for the CMT Level 1 Curriculum 2019 by Wiley.

Market Structure Phases

When I was learning technical analysis I remember just focusing on the daily charts and ignoring other timeframes. Furthermore, I would just be looking at the series of candles to find a bullish engulfing, morning star, or piercing candle just to name a few without actually looking at the bigger picture. I ended up bag... Read more

Jul 28, 2019

JavaScript

Javascript is one of the core programming language for the web. Its purpose was to make web pages more interactive to the user. Over time the language has grown from only being used on the client side to being embedded into other server-side technologies. Also there have been extensive frameworks built on top of JavaScript... Read more

Sep 17, 2018

Technical Analysis

I remember when I first started investing and trading. I had no clue what I was doing. I would hear about a merger and rush into the stock only to watch it fall in coming months. Or I’d find a stock with a high dividend yield only to to see the stock price fall and... Read more

Aug 18, 2018

Investment Banking

This blog post contains my notes for a course on basics in understanding Investment Banking(IB). In the course they discussed the history of IB, the four main areas of investment banking, company valuations and modeling, and leverage buyouts(LBO). My notes are from a course called The Complete Investment Banking Course on Udemy. It is... Read more

Jul 18, 2018

Long Timeframes

I was reading one of the AMA threads on StockTwits a few months ago when I stumbled on an AMA from Zen Trends founder Cody Freedman; read here. His strategy was a simple trend trading strategy such that you follow the trend until it changes and you look at higher timeframes instead of daily.... Read more

May 7, 2018

Excel VBA Reference

Excel’s VBA function allows the user to enhance a workbook by allowing them to automate and manipulate elements and tasks into the excel workbook. Excel uses the programing language visual basic which is an event-driven programming language that is user friendly and specifically for beginners. I remember when I first used VBA to automate formatting... Read more

Jan 15, 2018

Capital Light Compounders and Reinvestment Moats

I was listening to the “Invest Like the Best” (listen below) podcast the other day and was intrigued by the guest Connor Leonard investment strategy because it was similar to Buffet’s model. Connor runs IMC’s public markets portfolio where he utilizes a value based strategy to small cap stocks for the long term. His strategy... Read more

Dec 6, 2017

Dhandho Investing

Dhandho is a Gujurati word that means business. However, it is a business in which there is very little risk associated with it and has a proven business model. The hotel/motel business is perfect example of this as it has a history of proven solid business model. This principles of Dhandho can also be applied... Read more

Oct 27, 2017

Java Reference

Java is a high-level programming language that can run java applications on any operating system via the java virtual machine (JVM). Its signature phrase “Write Once, Run Anywhere”. Java is also the underlying language for the Android OS. The Java syntax is similar to C-style languages such as: C, C++, JavaScript. Although Java is slower... Read more

Jun 14, 2017

Python 3 Reference

Python is a programming language which has gained quite attraction for people working with data; especially in the finance industry. One reason why is its vast amounts of open source libraries for data manipulation and analysis such as Pandas, NumPy and TensorFlow. Python is also very strict in syntax so you are almost guaranteed to... Read more

Jun 5, 2017

Snippet - Slideshow

Creating an automated slideshow plugin may look a little challenging at first but its actually pretty simple once you break it down. This code will allow you to show a set of images that transition every X seconds. It will be reusable and for a great example check out my projects page to see them... Read more

May 8, 2016

The Sass Way!

If you get frustrated with how messy and unmanageable your CSS gets, wish you didn’t have to specify properties over and over, or wished you could compute mathematical operations then you need Sass an extension of CSS that does all of this and more. I wished I had known about Sass sooner as I would... Read more

Apr 15, 2016

Blog With Jekyll

Jekyll is a static site generator that is written in ruby. It takes text files and renders them into HTML page. If you are looking for a simple web page or blog without having a database or maintaining a lot of code then Jekyll is for you. Another bonus when using Jekyll is that you... Read more

Apr 8, 2016