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Do the exercises and show your work
7–13 weeks (8 hrs/week)
Take Financial Markets for free and do the problem sets and the lectures' worked examples (risk and return, portfolios, derivatives, insurance, banks, crises). Keep your answers in one public place (a repo, a shared folder or a page) as you go, with your reasoning shown.
Proof required
Link your public folder with the problem sets and the lectures' worked examples (risk and return, portfolios, derivatives, insurance, banks, crises), and show your self-check (ECON 252 problem sets and exams).
What gets checked
- Calculations are in a spreadsheet the verifier can open.
- Each answer names the lecture or reading it relies on.
- Mistakes are listed with the correction.
Common mistakes
- Answers copied from a key: verifiers read the reasoning.
- Numbers with no working.
- Asking for review before the self-check.
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A public folder with your worked answers to the problem sets and the lectures' worked examples (risk and return, portfolios, derivatives, insurance, banks, crises).
Steps
- Make a public folder or repo for this course.
- Do one chapter or problem set at a time and save it.
- Self-check: The course page lists its problem sets, and exams where posted. Do each before the lecture that answers it, then check your answers against the lecture and the readings. Write down what you got wrong.
- Fix what the self-check shows, and say what you fixed.
- Ask three people who know the topic to check it.
Template
README Course: Financial Markets (Open Yale Courses (ECON 252)) What is here: Self-check result: The hardest question and why:
What gets sent back
- Answers with no working.
- Self-check not shown.
Resources
Foundationstart here
Depthgo deeper
What a verifier looks for
- Calculations are in a spreadsheet the verifier can open.
- Each answer names the lecture or reading it relies on.
- Mistakes are listed with the correction.
- Pick two answers and check every step.
- Ask about one step; the answer should be clear.
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Follow one market for a quarter
1–3 weeks (5–8 hrs/week)
Use what you learned. Make a log of one real market (an index, a currency or a commodity) for 12 weeks, with weekly notes on what moved it, one hedge or risk calculation on paper, and what you got wrong. Put it where verifiers can open it. Use public information, or data you have permission to use; never publish a real person's private details.
Proof required
Link a log of one real market (an index, a currency or a commodity) for 12 weeks, with weekly notes on what moved it, one hedge or risk calculation on paper, and what you got wrong, and a short note on what you decided or changed because of it.
What gets checked
- There is a dated entry for every week.
- The risk calculation is correct.
- It is a study log, not investment advice, and says so.
Common mistakes
- Invented or unsourced figures.
- A conclusion the evidence does not support.
Powstik Guide
A log of one real market (an index, a currency or a commodity) for 12 weeks, with weekly notes on what moved it, one hedge or risk calculation on paper, and what you got wrong.
Steps
- Write one line: what you will show.
- Gather the real data, people or documents.
- Draft it, then read it cold the next day.
- Ask someone to mark the first claim they doubt.
- Fix it and ask three people to check it.
Template
Title: What this shows: Sources: Method: Result: Limits:
What gets sent back
- Unsourced numbers.
- Not clearly the person's own work.
- Claims more than it shows.
Resources
Foundationstart here
Depthgo deeper
What a verifier looks for
- There is a dated entry for every week.
- The risk calculation is correct.
- It is a study log, not investment advice, and says so.
- Check that the work is the person's own and the sources are real.
- Ask how a number was found.
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