April 2020 – Mockingbird Investment

April 30, 2020

COVID-19 Live Data II: The Recalculation

Just another quick summary on some new data sources surrounding the current pandemic. Who’s working on a cure? Everyone. That’s who. Global Coronavirus COVID-19 Clinical Trial Tracker (covid-trials.org) A simple model trying to predict when the virus will end in different countries. Interesting to look at, but even the authors say it’s STRICTLY for educational purposes. Take with (many) grains...

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April 29, 2020

Lesson Learned: Go slowly

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. Warren Buffett No matter your style, commit some time to just playing and learning. Patience is your friend, feel free to let an opportunity pass. Sure, you’ll miss those returns, but don’t lament, there will always be another chance. FOMO is almost never something worth...

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April 27, 2020

The Amateur Investor. Ep 2: Meeting the Mockingbirds

I tossed my dirty climbing gear in the boot, it had been a hard session. My back was sore and my hands were basically useless. But I needed to blow off steam. Most of the day had been spent staring at any number of investment blogs and looking at a variety of companies ranging from financial tech to the minerals...

Stories

April 24, 2020

Mocker Monday: Ideas to start your week. Apr 24.

Welcome to the Inaugural Mockingbird News Roundup! Once a week we will publish a summary of some articles which Mockingbird Members found particularly interesting. The Chinese released data on how the lockdown affected the economy. Overall the economy shrunk 6.8% relative to last year, but different sectors fared differently. The biggest winners were sectors involved in the digitization of business. In...

Ideas

April 20, 2020

The Amateur Investor. Ep 1: Wading in

The place was a little out of the way, but then again everything I was about to do was going to be far out of my way. I pulled up to the small house just outside of Brisbane City proper. Hsuan met me at the door, followed by his small dog whose name I can never recall, but am too...

Stories

April 20, 2020

Introducing The Amateur Investor

A new series with Mockingbird, chronicling a fledgling investor’s slow entry into the world of investing.

Stories

April 20, 2020

Suckers rally or V shaped recovery?

Padley is back out 20%, predicting no real market moves until June and reporting season gives us tangible financial data. Montgomery seems a bit more optimistic, arguing that economic risk is now likely priced in. Government support is strong for a staged recovery to work, and potentially a V shaped recovery.

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April 14, 2020

COVID-19 Live Data

With all the hysteria in the news around the current pandemic, I found myself returning to the data in these sites for a bit of regular contextual reset. Visual Capitalist’s infection trajectories on a country by country basis. Ejection from exponential growth data visualisation, by Aatishb Bhatia and MinutePhysics. covid-19-au.com is the go to source for Covid Data in Australia...

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Monthly Archive: April, 2020

COVID-19 Live Data II: The Recalculation

Lesson Learned: Go slowly

The Amateur Investor. Ep 2: Meeting the Mockingbirds

Mocker Monday: Ideas to start your week. Apr 24.

The Amateur Investor. Ep 1: Wading in

Introducing The Amateur Investor

Suckers rally or V shaped recovery?

COVID-19 Live Data