Finance.md

Finance

Basics

• IG Academy - A few short and approachable courses on investing.
• Investing: Time in the market vs timing the market?
• Investing: Don’t sell your winners
• How I lost $350,000 Day Trading stocks and what I learned from it - techlead

ETFs and ETCs

• iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
• Powershares NASDAQ-100
• iShares Physical Gold ETC
• iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets IMI ETF
• S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats
  • Upcoming 2020 Recession: How To Prepare For The Market Crash

Meta Investing

• Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital, on Money as an Instrument of Change
  • Risk On
• All Things Chamath: Palihapitiya Outlines His Vision
  • "Put money into the things you care about and then do nothing and learning that second part is super hard"
• Peter Thiel Returns to Stanford to Share Business Tips from "Zero to One"
  • "Tell me something is that is true that almost no one agrees with you on"
  • You do not want to be in the world of competition. Psychologically we tend to feel safer to go with crowds, but there is no safety in crowds when you are all going into competition.
  • Uniqueley position your business to have no competitors
• Anti Fragile

Financial Statements

• Yahoo Finance - A place to view income statements, balance sheets and cash flow for various companies.
• Finviz

United Kingdom

• Full ISA Guide You can invest stocks and shares in an ISA to avoid capital gains tax.

Best share dealing platform

Conclusion: IG Just ignore the spread betting, their stocks and apps are still the best. The only better cost competitor is Degiro

• I Invested My Own Money to Compare Top UK Stock Brokers
• Best Share Dealing Accounts

Retirement

• Asking the right and wrong questions - Dan Ariely You are going to want to withdraw 135 percent of your salary each year, not 65 percent as the common wisdom states. You are going to want to do more things with your free time, that cost money, than when you are at work all day.

Virtual Banks

• N26 Based in Germany and useful for credit card.
• Revolut Based in UK and useful for currency exchange.
• Monzo Based in UK and useful for direct debit.

Crypto Currencies

• The future will be decentralized | Charles Hoskinson | TEDxBermuda
• Ada Proof of Stake, Platform and uses Haskell, partners with universities on research and publishes papers
  • IOHK | Cardano whiteboard; overview with Charles Hoskinson
• ZillaQA Scalable using Sharding and uses Coq
  • Zilliqa Review: High Performance Sharding Based Blockchain - Coinbureau
• Tezos uses Coq
• NFTs: $69 Million for a JPEG File - The Wild World of NFT’s
  • Currently hyped, but real use cases of tracking authenticity, ownership and membership are coming

Visa

• Switching from Tier 2 to Global Talent Visa UK - technation.io