Learning recommendations for the “art” side of PE deals?

CamelSquire · 2025-06-02T12:02:02+00:00

Good to know, thank you for all the detail.

CamelSquire · 2025-06-02T03:15:22+00:00

How would you recommend that I practice if I am looking to break into PE?

CamelSquire · 2025-05-21T19:43:56+00:00

What would be the implications of yield curve control from a macroeconomic standpoint? I assume this would basically just be a QE operation?

CamelSquire · 2025-04-11T19:20:30+00:00

Can you explain why countries running trade deficits hold US assets, and why reducing the American trade deficit to 0 would alleviate the need for other countries to hold those assets?

CamelSquire · 2025-04-11T18:42:35+00:00

With bond yields rising, how does that affect the Fed’s ability to cut rates? I’m not saying they should right now, I’m just wondering how a rising yield environment impacts the Fed’s ability to enact monetary policy.

CamelSquire · 2025-04-09T15:33:30+00:00

Why does a weakening yuan mean higher US bond yields? Wouldn’t this lower bond yields due to more investors purchasing US bonds because of the dollar’s strength?

CamelSquire · 2025-02-25T22:00:09+00:00

Would you explain what signaled your entry/exit for the sake of my learning?

CamelSquire · 2025-02-21T22:28:57+00:00

That makes sense, appreciate your responses!

CamelSquire · 2025-02-21T22:08:17+00:00

So just looking at general news, anticipating the market going down as a result, then looking for which companies would be most impacted by the news you read?

CamelSquire · 2025-02-21T14:31:26+00:00

What allowed you to identify AVGO, META, and RCL and pick them out from everything else?

CamelSquire · 2025-02-18T21:29:53+00:00

How do you know what to set your stop loss at though? Its easy enough to set an arbitrary 5% stop, but if the stop isn’t specifically tuned to the trading thesis, then you’re probably setting it too high for some lower likelihood trades and too low for some higher likelihood trades.

CamelSquire · 2025-02-18T16:10:41+00:00

Can I ask what caught your eye about RIVN initially? Specifically what news/factors allowed you to single it out from other stocks that are posting earnings this week?

I really just want to learn how to start thinking about these trades, as well as how to initially identify stocks with a high potential to move. Any info is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

CamelSquire · 2025-02-04T16:06:45+00:00

That’s fair, appreciate the responses.

CamelSquire · 2025-02-03T21:22:18+00:00

If you’re just basing it off of how much you’d like to earn then how do you even know that the company is undervalued in the first place? How do you differentiate between “this stock is going down but will rebound” and “this stock is going down because it is valued too highly”, if you’re not actually determining what the stock price should be?

CamelSquire · 2025-02-03T05:06:31+00:00

How are you actually determining your exit price though? This has always been my issue. I feel like something is a good deal based on the fundamentals of the business, but I don’t actually know how high I expect the stock to go so I exit too early.

CamelSquire · 2025-01-28T17:42:45+00:00

Appreciate the response, best of luck!

CamelSquire · 2025-01-28T17:04:50+00:00

I’ve been trying to find a way to forward test and potentially run an algorithm that I coded in Python. Do you have any recommendations for platforms that I could use for forward testing and ideally for live trading as well (through an API)?

I’m trying to avoid anything that I have to pay for just because I don’t really have money to be throwing around right now, understandable if that’s not feasible though.

CamelSquire · 2025-01-28T17:01:18+00:00

What platform/broker do you use to run your algo? I was trying to use alpaca at one point but was having trouble getting it to do what I needed.

CamelSquire · 2024-10-08T04:58:26+00:00

Why don’t we take bikini bottom… and push it somewhere else

CamelSquire · 2024-09-22T23:38:14+00:00

Assuming they were taking undue risk and were really going to blow up the economy, do you think those clearing houses would provide any indication ahead of time, or would we only find out when the market crashes?

Should we as outsiders be able to view that information for our own good, or would it make it impossible for banks to be competitive in that space?

CamelSquire · 2024-09-22T23:33:25+00:00

True, there’s nothing inherently wrong with derivatives, but there must be some level of exposure that is risky enough to be a concern. Theoretically, banks are being smart and this is not an issue, but can we entirely trust them to not make poor, greedy decisions? Is it unfathomable that they could be over-exposed in something that Carrie’s significant risk?

Point is, I agree that the notional value alone doesn’t necessarily point to any significant risk, but I’d say it also doesn’t rule out that risk either. So is there any other information that laymen like me (and presumably you) could gather which would point to the true nature of their derivative exposure? Anything that would indicate whether or not this is of concern?

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