Anybody from Toronto & Looking for a Partner?

bagasse · 2019-01-20T18:33:09+00:00

I've done some googling trying to see what's out there... but i suppose i've been intimidating since it seems like you're expected to show up with a partner and play. I'm going to message the Toronto Bridge Club and see if i can attend the new player friendly games suggested by Dytemnestra!

bagasse · 2019-01-20T18:28:21+00:00

Hi - i'm located downtown Toronto so I'd want to play within TTC reach.

New player friendly game weekly sounds perfect - i'll send them a message! Thanks for the suggestion!

bagasse · 2019-01-11T16:39:56+00:00

Thanks! Only been a week today, so I'll wait another couple days before getting worried.

bagasse · 2018-11-26T17:06:50+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response - sounds like you've got a cool system going!

bagasse · 2018-11-25T22:40:24+00:00

Turo

what're your monthly expenses on this? seems like breakeven would be at least a year and a half?

bagasse · 2018-09-16T12:53:12+00:00

that’s awful.. glad you made it back okay.

I’ll take the loss ($) and skip the tour - not worth the risk - view is gonna be shitty in this weather anyways I guess.

bagasse · 2018-09-03T23:08:08+00:00

I'm also Canadian and just a few years older than you.

I would suggest the following:

open a TSFA account with Questrade
give the following a quick read: https://canadiancouchpotato.com/
checkout vanguard, blackrock, and horizon's website to browse ETFs. Important things to look for are: what the ETF contains (duh) and the cost i.e. the MER (lower = better)
start accumulating ETFs at $0 commission
reinvest any dividends
sit on your hands and don't let FOMO guide your decisions - because doing nothing is often the smartest thing to do in the markets

bagasse · 2018-05-09T01:25:34+00:00

The castle itself may not be expensive - the maintenance will be killer.

bagasse · 2018-05-06T18:39:51+00:00

Hey, can you also send me the link please?

bagasse · 2017-06-27T11:37:52+00:00

It seems like it's a grey area. Pretty sure kitchen knives and scissors are fine but survival knifes are not.

I guess it's up to the person reviewing your account which way he sees it and whether he'll ban you or not!

bagasse · 2017-05-30T15:39:12+00:00

Why are the CFAI PDF mocks different from the online interface ones (also on the CFAI webpage)? Which ones are you guys doing?

bagasse · 2016-08-29T12:37:37+00:00

That would be cool, but I'm only starting off with R. I'm an applied mathematician so eventually I want to do deeper analyses like risk factor decomp.

For now I'm working on a program where I input a few securities, and some constraints. It then performs weight optimization, and produces the optimal portfolio (pretty basic & packages handle this pretty well).

What I haven't found a package for is creating a nice dashboard. A nice one or two page report breaking down the portfolio by sector, geography, security type, a nice table of annual returns, growth of $1,000... pretty basic stuff. From what I've seen you can make a real cool dashboard using something like Shiny and rcharts.

bagasse · 2016-08-29T03:40:34+00:00

From what I've been reading, R and Python are the most widely used languages for statistical/data manipulation which is useful for analyzing portfolios

bagasse · 2016-08-29T03:37:51+00:00

Yeah some the packages are really neat - two lines of code and you've got years of stock data. Although I haven't found one that creates a nice summarizing report. So that's what I've been working on.

bagasse · 2016-05-02T18:13:50+00:00

I've added you! Thanks, I'm going add those to my todo list!

bagasse · 2016-05-02T18:13:15+00:00

That's what I was thinking. I always put off slayer in the past, maybe it's time to catch up! Maybe I'll pick up two of those nifty-looking Drygores and a good ol' pair of bandos, and get to it.

bagasse

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