For some reason, I feel like cracking some CFA books. After doing the Level I exam, I had no desire to open any CFA books. But I have this urge to read FSA again. I think Level II really was a pleasure to learn, in that it required a much deeper understanding than 1…especially after all that reading that I observed, I somehow feel the need not to forget it…
you can start reading Level 3 stuff…
I guess you mean used books right?
Yes.
I miss studying. Sad though.
anishcandy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I miss studying. Sad though. No, no… you’re not alone. Me too. It’s like I’m having withdrawal problems.
vivienne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > anishcandy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I miss studying. Sad though. > > > No, no… you’re not alone. Me too. It’s like I’m > having withdrawal problems. Great. Don’t feel like betting on the results and start L III. Probably would go buy GMAT books.
meh! I have a take home final in credit derivatives due Monday and here I am posting. I find it very hard to get motivated. It’s best to take a break, seriously. go off and enjoy yourselves. Level III material will always be there waiting.
i only feel like studying because if i don’t my brain will go into hibernation in about a month. i’m a think ahead person
I started to read a bestseller … having hard time to concentrate … my brain is still focused on Finance … but don’t want to touch any CFA books until December …
I’ve been catching up on reading for my Masters of Science in Finance, it’s been strangely comforting.
Black Swan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I’ve been catching up on reading for my Masters of > Science in Finance, it’s been strangely > comforting. What are you reading?
Yup, it is good info, but not so good that I want to go back through it. I bought a book on hedge funds called Hedgehogging that looked interesting, so I’m reading that instead.
i just went outside for a run, man the CFA got me out of shape. i just signed up and am back to 2 nights a week soccer, so my post cfa goal is all about working out. except for a few moments here and there where one of the questions i messed up pops into my head and annoys me, i’ve been nicely relaxed and at peace now that this thing is over. slept in today, am SOOOO excited to read the US magazine that gets delivered to me weekly that i’ve been ignoring for too long. i will be back in the loop on celeb gossip and growth duration formulas will be wiped out of my head very soon. back to “normal” life. yes i like trashy magazines, deal with it people.
hedgehogging is a really fast read. pretty entertaining. think barton biggs was an english major at Yale before he got into finance so he’s a really good writer…
I was in the same boat last week, so I pulled the CAIA L1 sample exam off the website and just did that. Managed to put up a 64% and I have never been formally trained or exposed to any of that stuff except for a little CFA cirriculum, WSJ and Economist. I almost decided to sit for the exam in Sept., then I remembered that I was married and I should hangout with my wife, ol’ what’s her name.
valuations material at the moment, they shoulda used damodaran’s book for the course though.
My final exam is shockingly easy compared to the CFA … but it irks me to have to use the naked eraser that the proctor ripped the jacket from. What do they do with all of those stray eraser jackets anyway? weird fetish.
what about reading something related but from different perspective… - Liar’s Poker - michael lewis (story of the IB game from the inside) - Infectious Greed - Frank Partnow (story of the financial collapses of the 1990s) - Traders, guns & money - Satyajit Das (the real story of derivatives trading - written by an insider) - Fisher Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance - Perry Mehrling (story of how Markwitz, Lintner, Treynor, Black, Scholes, Sharpe, Merton, Fama, Jensen, Tobin. etc etc developed MPT, EMH, CAPM, pricing models, etc) I started the latter 2 last week - great reads and relevant to the whole game of finance but from completely different angles
DoubleDip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it irks me to have to use the naked > eraser that the proctor ripped the jacket from. > What do they do with all of those stray eraser > jackets anyway? weird fetish. Same thing happened to me…and it is disturbing me too for some reason. Maybe they think people could put notes in there. I’d say the number of those jackets in the world they take each year could be recycled to a make ~10 of full curriculum books, give or take.