Posts about finance

This post is part of my Stock Market Video Games series! In these posts, I'll do a deepdive in the stock markets that we can find in video games! I want to find out how these fictional stock markets behave, and how they differ from the real world. Are they random or realistic simulations? And how can we use that knowledge to get excess returns? After all, we should only invest in what we understand.

As far as stock market video games go, the first virtual stock market I encountered was in online game environment Neopets, around the early 2000s.

Hi everyone! In this post I'll show you how I valuate mergers and acquisitions and other special situation investments. I started doing this after reading You can be a stock market genius by Joel Greenblatt. Despite the clickbait title, this is a really good book about special situation investing.

This is the second post in a series about data-driven investing.

In the first post I described Hetty, a collection of tools for monitoring stocks and doing financial data analysis. Naturally, Hetty needs a steady inflow of financial information, and I prefer not to input that information by hand, so that's where online data sources come in.

This is the first post in a series about data-driven investing.

In this post I describe a software toolkit called hetty, named after Hetty Green, an American investor