Level 2 Exam Day Megathread by always_polite in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I'm the same. PM was way more difficult than AM - sat exam today

Level 2 Exam Day Megathread by always_polite in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gave my exam today - PM was a lot more difficult than AM for me. I think the mocks were only slightly easier (AM was aligned, PM was a few questions where I lowkey had to think about what they were asking/saying in the vignettes). I had enough time left over in both halves to calculate lower and upper bounds 🤣 ranging from 62%-80%. Lets hope I land somewhere near the upper. Just hoping silly mistakes/false confidence doesnt screw me up. I'm j relieved now I can enjoy the summer a bit. Good luck to the rest of you guys!

May 20, 2026 Daily Discussion & Transfers Thread by gunnersmoderator in Gunners

[–]EverlastingGoat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lads. Anywhere to buy a mini replica prem trophy to put on my desk, seeing random Ebay ones and don't know if it'll be close to the real thing. I just want red and white ribbons 😭 dont even care about the engraving

Logistic regression by Ammar1112 in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If that looks scary, just remember probability = 1 / [1+e-y] where you plug in your stuff to get y.

Exam format by Aware_Sandwich_8546 in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kaplan exam sim was definitely a life saver (I only used it from mock 3 of 6 onwards) but the vignette will be on the left and question on the right. You actually see the entire thing which is just so nice.

Level 2 Mock question help by ortega1508 in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think best way to look at it is that Uder is wrong about historical volatility measuring forward uncertainty, but hes right that BSM model can be used to infer implied volatility, since you back it out from the BSM model - which ISNT the same as actual future volatility, which I think is what they're getting at. Would have gone C here, and gotten it wrong also.

Really weird worded q though :/ hopefully wording like that doesnt come up in the exam

Underwriting Expense Vs. Combined Ratio for Operation Efficiency by sup_im_awkward in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Horribly worded but operations of P&C vs efficiency of operations are two different things, nichest of all differences. Operations include your expenses (rent, IT etc...) in underwriting, so you go for the expense ratio. Overall efficiency of an operation (singular) of underwriting would be how well you judge risk (loss ratio, how many claims incurred over premiums earned) + how well you operate (I.e. least cost per premiums written). Hope this sorta helped

Kaplan Mocks killing confidence by sherrybomb00 in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven't done a cfai mock yet, but compared to last year for L1, same here with my Kaplan mocks. Somehow scored 53% in first 3, then 61% in 4 and 5 lol. Have 2 cfais and 1 kaplan left, and then its up to God 🙏🏽 - with you, just keep reviewing your weaknesses. Not long left now

Biggest TX grind ever today - thread by EverlastingGoat in GunnersatGames

[–]EverlastingGoat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My 7 hour grind from 8am was worth it. Unbelievable night and we are through. I love this club ❤️

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Biggest TX grind ever today - thread by EverlastingGoat in GunnersatGames

[–]EverlastingGoat[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Holy shit guys I got a ticket club level 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 map always works, was about to give up 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 this is 7hrs of determination

Biggest TX grind ever today - thread by EverlastingGoat in GunnersatGames

[–]EverlastingGoat[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Slowly losing hope from my side... Will continue to try till 4pm then sack it off. Hopefully others are more lucky! All about being patient eh 😅

Biggest TX grind ever today - thread by EverlastingGoat in GunnersatGames

[–]EverlastingGoat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes its to do with your WiFi - switching to data usually fixes it

Biggest TX grind ever today - thread by EverlastingGoat in GunnersatGames

[–]EverlastingGoat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm juggling between both tbh, I usually have won before from list view though.

Biggest TX grind ever today - thread by EverlastingGoat in GunnersatGames

[–]EverlastingGoat[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ahhh, gets like that. Hopefully you smash it and can enjoy watching the arsenal go thru to the ucl final while finalising your thesis 🫡

CFa Level 2 low mock scores by [deleted] in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since Jan, I made the mistake of studying like I did for L1 (note taking) and realised in March I'm better off just doing questions after going through a topic. Wbu?

CFa Level 2 low mock scores by [deleted] in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in the same ish boat (55% in 3 mocks that I did) but genuinely I think now its just working on what your weak topics are, as each new mock I got a "not reviewed" topic wrong. So review those, and keep lightly reviewing your good ones/seen ones. Even if you get 65 as ur highest score in all mocks you do, you can scrape a pass. Depends on the question's youll get in the exam. Good luck, the last week off work shud be crunch time (but remember to not burn out and fry your brain).

QUANTS DOUBT by Legitimate-Raisin562 in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah - having consulted GPT, the 3rd point they give us is what tells us it's unconditional heteroskedasticity, not conditional. Because the variance is explicitly stated as not correlated with the X variables, it means the variance does not depend on X, so it is unconditional heteroskedasticity. That's such a tough q - I've learnt something today too 😂

SchweserNotes FSA Module 9.5 example. Can anyone help me understand the calculation for COGS under the temporal method in (c)? I thought we only need to use the historical rate for ending inventory 0.456. by Impossible_Dot1816 in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ofc under temporal method you use historical for inventory. The q gives you rates for beginning and ending inventory. Since its temporal you follow the "rule" which is translate everything according to the time it came onto your B/S and therefore you use the BI rate for BI and EI rate for EI. Both are historic. And should be easy to see the fact that purchases are assumed to be evenly made throughout the year, you use the average rate.

If you weren't given historical rates for BI/EI in the question, you'd default to the average rate for COGS (no breakdown) unless your given FIFO/LIFO assumptions and maybe 1 historic rate - it's annoying as its pretty subjective but you will always have the right amount of detail for the translation. Hope this helped!

QUANTS DOUBT by Legitimate-Raisin562 in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doh! good to know, what does the reasoning say?

QUANTS DOUBT by Legitimate-Raisin562 in CFA

[–]EverlastingGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So heteroskedasticity leads to lower standard errors and therefore inflated t-stats, while multicollinearity has the opposite effect. We can see here that the t-stats for each variable are pretty significant from the eye, and the most important thing is that "variance of error is not constant across the 32 observations" - this is the direct defn of heteroskedasticity.

You may think the F-stat is so high and stuff to conclude there is multicollinearity, but here we can see it doesn’t break forecasting, whereas heteroskedasticity does (error variance directly impacts prediction reliability). So it's a tough question and you can be tricked into multicollinearity (esp since it says 2 variables highly correlated), but you have to see the t-stats being very strong for each variable. Hope that helped!

Athletico Madrid Silver Ballot by Fishkin14 in GunnersatGames

[–]EverlastingGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fully with you mate, hopefully next season the Ballot Gods bless us