About Canuck Investor

This is, simply, a trading and investment blog written by Nelson Yee, a transplanted Vancouverite and natural-born Canadian, with interests in both the Canadian and American markets. I hope this site serves as an antidote both to purely technical trading (and other faux-empirical systems) and over-reliance on strict fundamentals — value being somewhat subjective and fundamentals becoming meaningless in panics and crashes. I read other trading and investing blogs occasionally as a view into other viewpoints — some of which are lessons on what not to do.

As far as disclosure is concerned, if I don’t explicitly state my position on a security, security option, future or other fanciful derivative product, usually at the end of an entry, you can infer that I don’t have a position in it. Like most people who invest regularly in securities, I’m cagey about my own portfolio while gleefully interested in determining the contents of yours, so I imagine it will not be too often when I’ll need to disclose a position. This industry’s all about information.

You can reach me at canuckinvestor@gmail.com. For a look into my thinking outside of the arena of finance, check out tonestandard.

3 Responses
  1. 2008 September 15
    Dan permalink

    Hi,

    I have completed a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo (UW). I am at a crossroads in life and wondering what to do next.

    I was thinking of Financial Mathematics at U of T or UW, but was also interested in Economics.

    You had mentioned that Financial Math is mostly limited to non-English speakers but who are really smart at Math. This concerns me as I do love match. But then the Macro aspect of Economics is fascinating to me as well.

    Any advice?

    Thanks,
    Dan

  2. 2008 September 17
    Nelson Yee permalink

    Hi Dan,

    I’m no expert in the area of Financial Mathematics/Engineering and my impressions come from articles I’ve read on that career area as well as auditing a Financial Engineering program — the bulk of the classes were made up of new immigrants. That said, there were numerous native English speakers as well, so I would definitely look into it if that’s your interest. It really depends on what you want to do with it as well — for instance, if it’s to work in a hedge fund as a quant, it might be useful, although firms like Renaissance Technologies tend to avoid people with these degrees and focus on those with more purely academic qualifications.

  3. 2009 March 9
    uncertainfutures permalink

    You have previously been kind enough to say nice things about my ‘Uncertain Futures’ blog (I get so few positive comments that I remember each by name!).

    I have been forced to relocate to…

    longandwrong.wordpress.com

    … which is more of the same, but slightly older and no more wiser.

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