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- Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:58 am
- Forum: Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Best coding to learn?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7047
Re: Best coding to learn?
Thank you very much for your feedback.
- Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:12 am
- Forum: Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Best coding to learn?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7047
Re: Best coding to learn?
Hello! I just found this thread because I also wanted to pick up some coding in the next weeks since I have time to do that. So far I was thinking about learning R or Python. Are those in any way comparable? What I wanted to do with the language: Start with analyzing historical stock and index data ...
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 6:44 am
- Forum: Money Questions
- Topic: Net Present Value = 0 -> real investment performance?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 612
Re: Net Present Value = 0 -> real investment performance?
Hello just, thank you for that hint. I tried out the XIRR formula and it seems to work quite well. It is basically what I was looking for. I copied the data from GnuCash into a spreadsheet and calculated it there. I was able to calculate my return since I opened my brokerage account, everything incl...
- Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:28 am
- Forum: Money Questions
- Topic: Net Present Value = 0 -> real investment performance?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 612
Net Present Value = 0 -> real investment performance?
Hello everyone! I was wondering how my investments and my portfolio have done so far taking into account everything (costs, taxes, dividends, and so on.) I've been using GnuCash to keep track of everything from the beginning a couple of years ago. So what I can already tell is the total cashflow in ...
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:50 pm
- Forum: Money Questions
- Topic: Avoiding US stocks to increase expected returns
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2570
Re: Avoiding US stocks to increase expected returns
Thank you Tyler! By the way your website is incredible! I love it! This comment made me think ;) How would you feel if you expected the advertised real return of 7.9% a year and 15 years later you look back and realize you only experienced 3.3% with your own money? I’m guessing you wouldn’t be too h...
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:49 am
- Forum: Money Questions
- Topic: Avoiding US stocks to increase expected returns
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2570
Re: Avoiding US stocks to increase expected returns
As an european investor I'm invested in european stocks with an ETFs on the Stocks Europe 600 index. I also have S&P500 and Emerging Market funds. I decided to do that based on some assumptions I am now overthinking again with more literature about the underlying theory about index investing. On...
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:56 pm
- Forum: Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Anyone make their own yogurt?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8476
Re: Anyone make their own yogurt?
So here is my next batch: https://imgur.com/C8Xy3AZ It was a lot thicker. This time I did the following: Bring the milk close to a boil and cool it down Use a bit of the old cultures and some new ones Leave it in the oven at about 30-40°C for 6h Kind of a bad design of experiment since I changed sev...
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:46 pm
- Forum: Money Questions
- Topic: McConnell Economics, Chapter 4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2913
Re: McConnell Economics, Chapter 4
I watched most of this MIT microeconomics video lecture a couple of weeks ago (however, I want to study it actively soon). I found it very helpful because the professor makes you think about the topics as well. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-01sc-principles-of-microeconomics-fall-2011/unit...
- Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:51 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Business ideas for the upcoming depression?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4557
Re: Business ideas for the upcoming depression?
I've thought many times about starting an online business, but the biggest hurdle to me is the insane sales tax system that has developed for digital products where every state gets to individually decide how much of a cut they get to take out of each download. It's an administrative nightmare that...
- Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:20 am
- Forum: Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Anyone make their own yogurt?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8476
Re: Anyone make their own yogurt?
Okay, so here are the results :) After 12-14 hours: https://imgur.com/OnZ1bEt Consistency: https://imgur.com/rMmrnlE Yoghurt with berries: https://imgur.com/Li4KjN3 Some thoughts on this trial: The yoghurt was a bit too liquid for my taste but the taste itself was perfect. I think in part that was b...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:21 pm
- Forum: Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Anyone make their own yogurt?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8476
Re: Anyone make their own yogurt?
@ Polp: if you have a steady warmer with a timer, making yogurt is nothing. i have a batch going in the instapot right now. i put the culture in the morning, about to funnel back into the milk jug for cooling. if you don’t get instapot in spain (i don’t know the ins & outs of global brand distr...
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 5:30 pm
- Forum: Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Anyone make their own yogurt?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8476
Re: Anyone make their own yogurt?
Plus I control the fat level, acidity, etc. Plus: fermentation is fun. Like having pets you can eat! :lol: Haha so true. I just started a new sourdough culture today for my bread. I tried to make yoghurt about a year and a half ago. It worked okay some times and sometimes it didn't. I might try it ...
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 5:22 pm
- Forum: Money Questions
- Topic: The AirBnB and house hacking bubbles
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2784
Re: The AirBnB and house hacking bubbles
I can't help but think this is good for the local neighborhoods. The rental stock is already low without losing so many to tourists. Where I live lots of flats for more or less reasonable prices popped up all of a sudden (there is a shortage of rental flat here and prices were becoming ridiculous)....
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:37 pm
- Forum: Money Questions
- Topic: Jobless claims in the US
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3814
Re: Jobless claims in the US
https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iZkLYjoGE.To/v4/-1x-1.png That pictures is just really weird. Interesting times... When the store can open again (that could be with extra precaution like face masks, maximum number of persons in a store etc) those people should be able to get their j...
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 3:34 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: What to study in a three month lockdown
- Replies: 2
- Views: 983
Re: What to study in a three month lockdown
Thank you Jacob, that might be more than enough for three months ;) I'll have to figure out how to get those books though. I haven't found and eBook version yet. Let's see if Amazon will still send them to me. Edit: Just found out that one of the books is the course textbook of MIT Finance Theory 1:...
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 2:42 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: What to study in a three month lockdown
- Replies: 2
- Views: 983
What to study in a three month lockdown
Good evening dear forum users, since I’m very new to this forum please let me briefly introduce myself first. I first came into touch with ERE with MMM a couple of years ago during university. I’ve been investing relatively small amounts of money ever since (even though that was not too much since I...
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:43 pm
- Forum: Money Questions
- Topic: Holding Cash Until Coronavirus is Settled
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8582
Re: Holding Cash Until Coronavirus is Settled
Yes, I don't think it's the bottom yet. If you take european indices as comparison they are trading at prices from 2013. Why wouldn't that happen to the S&P500 as well?
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 3:00 pm
- Forum: Money Questions
- Topic: Holding Cash Until Coronavirus is Settled
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8582
Re: Holding Cash Until Coronavirus is Settled
Good evening everyone, I'm new to this forum but have been reading for quite some time. I started investing in ETFs in 2013. Thoughts I've been having about this situation: - "dollar cost averaging" might be a good strategy here since timing the market is very difficult. This makes sense i...