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2021 (6 posts)

Single man flying suites: The future is here
Advice from Johnson on fund raising
Weekend insights with Jerry and Liza
An evening of insights with the Hutters
Observations at the heart of Permian basin
Observed second and third order impact of GameStop frenzy on market stability

2020 (24 posts)

Psychology of money by Morgan Housel
General thoughts of training trading bot
Technical analysis for dummies by Barbara Rockefeller
Key lessons learned from 2020 coronavirus sell offs - DONT TALK ABOUT TRADING
SPY macro signals for market wide sell offs
Chat with Quynh on trading
The dichotomy between privacy and health
Predator's Ball by Connie Bruck
Liar's poker by Micheal Lewis
King Icahn, biography of a renegade capitalist by Mark Stevens
Minsky moment and the three types of borrowers
Observations on our news reporting system as well as investment bank forecasting.
Chat with Johnson and Dad on CoronaVirus and crisis investing
Global warming and the four horsemen of apocalypse
Federal reserve rate cuts
Thoughts on Fake News
Conversations with Garis
Thoughts on Crude Oil
Book summary: George Soros the unauthorized biography
Book summary: What it takes, Stephen Schwarzman
The alchemy of finance by Georgo Soros
Corona Virus versus SARS virus
Chat with Joe and his dad
Dinner with Mansu

2019 (70 posts)

Book summary: Buffett the making of an American capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
Federal reserve maintains interest rates 11th Dec 2019
Book summary: The dollar crisis
Investment Biker, Jim Rogers
Federal Reserve interest rate cut decision 20191030
Long term reversion to mean patterns
PCG misexecution from blackouts and Kincade fire
Mother Nature versus City - public utilities
NYMT rotation from agency RMBS to CMBS
Bloomberg is a laggard for trend reporting
An unchanging constant as the source of trust
Thoughts of various asset class type and their usage
Observed unwinding of credit in the market
Oil's relationship with the macro economic environment
Observations on how public opinion is shaped in the US
Thoughts on excessive use of leverage
Chat with Punit
Observations of market behavior during the period of September leading up to October
Fluid dynamics within the markets
Book summary: Invest with the Feds by Robert R Johnson, Gerald Jensen and Luis Garcia Feijoo
LA trip to visit Johnson
Chats with Ilya on hedge funds
Evening out watching Rambo, last blood
Key insights from mooncake festival at house of Jerry and Liza
Key insights from weekend with Jerry, Liza, Ada and Dan
Reflections of erroneous trading over the past 48 hours
Book summary: The Asian Financial Crisis by Shalendra Sharma
Afternoon with Tomasso on the limitations of Artificial intelligence's application
Book summary: The Savings and Loan Crisis - Lessons from a regulatory failure
Why banks are trading at or below net book value
Book summary: Barbarians at the gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Key lessons from When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
Insights from evening with Wine and Jam session with Adriene and Dennis, Birthday party with Konstantine
Macro economic extension to loss aversion reversion to mean trading methodology - Government versus Government scenario
Donald Trump's August 1st 2019 tweet on additional tariffs
Federal Chairman Jerome Powell on 0.25% interest rate cuts
Book summary - The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook by Jonathan Golin and Philippe Delhaise
Thoughts on avoiding the greater fool theory
Insights from dinner with Brian and Jason
How banks and the Federal reserve / central bank works
Behavior that promotes good investment returns
Trends associated with GetData.IO
Analysis of the Facebook Libra Token
20190619 - Federal reserve chairman Powell’s speech
Non-purchase of DOMO despite 10% dip
Loss aversion reversion to mean exit strategy
Macro-economics negative spiral leading indicator
June 4th 2019 US/China trade war loss aversion reversion to mean pattern
Learnings on shorting the market during the May 2019 US/China Trade war
Prediction on US/China Trade war to be verified in 2021
Book summary - The Signal and the noise
Book summary: Everybody lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Loss aversion reversion to mean anti pattern
Post 2019 US/China Trade War companies for consideration
Insights from Ilya
Learnings from the market today
Key trading mistakes during execution
3rd June post effects of 13th May 2019 US/China Trade war on US markets
Macro economic analysis on US/China 2018/2019 Trade war
Donald Trump’s 3rd May 2019 trade war tweets on stock market index around the world
Insights from lunch with Manish and Ketan
SPY - SnP index during Dec 2018 market pull back
Inputs from Ilya on loss aversion and reversion to mean trading strategy
Book summary: Thinking in Bets
Hypothesis on timing entry position into loss aversion
Book summary: Quantitative momentum
Book summary: swing trading for dummies
Key take aways from Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors
Insights from party at Ilya's place
MongoDB versus Amazon

2018 (23 posts)

Insights from Hannes
Key insights for Jerry's birthday party
Insights from conversations with Ilya
Reflections for the evening on return on capital
For latter reference
Ray Dalio: Beating the stock market by learning history
Forum - Ten years after Lehman brother’s bankruptcy: where are we now and what lies ahead
Book summary: Creative capital
Insights from drinks with Charles Wu
On fund raising
Book summary: the success equation
Kenji and Johnson - Learnings in trading patterns
Loss aversion and reversion to mean earnings missed patterns
Key takeaways from dinner with Jerry and Johnson at the Rosewood hotel
Reflections on bad trades - the narrative fallacy or apophenia
Reflections on the decentralized multi-sided market place - GetData.IO
Evening reflections on the importance of story telling
M1 versus MyRepublic - 6th July 2017
Lessons from Saudi Arabia's 2014-2015 flooding of market
Tesla self driving cars casualty incident March 2018
Trading Strategy which capitalizes on loss aversion triggered off by hyper media coverage
Data breach case study - Facebook (March 2018)
Data breach case study - Equifax (September 2017)