Hey people, blissful June to you all!
I figured it was time to say hello to you once more and allow you to know the updates with Do not Give up Your Day Job… – and, per custom, updates on our residence tasks (ha).
Earlier than we dive into the updates, I wish to take a second to want all of the dads on our checklist a very Comfortable Father’s Day. I am spending the weekend at my dad and mom’ home – sure, with my daughters in tow – so please perceive if my responses to replies to this Weekender are a bit delayed.
We have got NASDAQ…
Longtime readers know I’ve been striving to seek out dependable stats on the NASDAQ’s historical past for… properly, roughly eternally. Formally, I’ll have first promised a NASDAQ model in 2012.
For those who missed it, earlier within the Spring, I lastly discovered what I wanted to create a NASDAQ Return Calculator. Sure, don’t be concerned, it additionally consists of dividend reinvestment.
Yesterday, I additionally completed the Historic Return Calculator software for the NASDAQ. (It is one thing I constructed for the Dow Jones Industrial Common and S&P 500, as properly).
It is an information-dense software. You outline durations in months and years, and it computes the funding return over all rolling durations in its dataset (right here, since 1973—longer within the different instruments). It then presents abstract statistics on these durations and graphs the returns so as.
I’ve had some complaints concerning the writeups for this software on the opposite indices, and I wish to ensure you are assured decoding the output. I’ve some marked-up screenshots on this one explaining find out how to learn among the stats. Please let me know what you assume, and if it really works out, I will incorporate this model of clarification into the older ones.
We have got cryptocurrencies…
You already know DQYDJ for the return calculators, and I am happy with those I’ve constructed. Nonetheless, I just lately hit a snag on a bunch of my calculators that used NASDAQ Knowledge Hyperlink*.
They made a breaking change to their API, locked my account out whereas I used to be testing updates(!), and will not reply to my emails to unlock my account. Anyway, for one substitute API, I am trialing CoinGecko, and am thus far fairly blissful.
Scrolling to the “Commodity and Cryptocurrency Returns” part of the Investing class web page, you will discover a number of new calculators. There, I mounted the Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin return calculators and now added help for Dogecoin, Cardano, Avalanche, Shiba Inu, Solana, and Chainlink.
Additional, I constructed 4 different instruments (which I expanded for all 9 cryptocurrencies)—instruments to transform to and from {dollars} on a date previously, together with some new Each day Shifting Common and Historic Drawdown evaluation instruments.
These are new instruments for me, however should you like them, I will increase them to different securities. They need to work for indices just like the S&P 500, in addition to particular person ETFs, mutual funds, and shares.
(Your suggestions is appreciated earlier than I put any work into these, haha.)
* I am nonetheless on the lookout for an API for historic treasured steel costs. Paid is ok, so long as it is affordable – I wish to supply instruments totally free so long as I can. I would like to repair my gold, silver, platinum, and palladium value return calculators, to start out.
We have got residence tasks…
As I informed you in different weekenders, our home is nice however wants (or, in lots of instances, wanted) some work. Here is a current motion photograph:
The joists underneath the kitchen – 2x8s on a 12′ span – had been sagging as much as 5/8″ within the center. I sistered them with 2x8s and LVLs. It is a lot better now – and the glasses stopped rattling a lot when somebody walks via!
Earlier than winter, I would like to do one thing related underneath the upstairs loos. And I must do one thing concerning the floor of the deck. And…
Thanks for studying, we’ll speak once more quickly!
