NYSE EXPR: 300% gains from Nov. 6, 0.62 - Nov. 24, 1.54

 Nov. 24, 2020

Introduction

It is important for me to stay in current. Look for best opportunity in stock market. Take some risk. 

Let SU.TO stock and Canadian oil stocks be the history. Embrace new challenge with those distress retail clothing store. 

I like to be an investor and then try to stay in long term as well. 

EXPR - Express, Inc. 

My favorite brand and I wish that small business can survive. 

Thanks Anna to be a good researcher. She is such hard working lady and gets up early at 5:00 AM every day. 

Equity research is most important for us. There is a fair opportunity for all of us to build wealth in this coronavirus special time, once a century opportunity. 

Two hour twenty minutes phone call

March 17, 2020

Introduction

It is important for me to work on decision making process. I took a sick day to stay at home, recover from my hay fever, and also I like to take some time to talk to my friend before I cut loss 25% of equity. We had two hour twenty minutes talk, after that, I decided to stay on the course, just discipline myself.

Two hour twenty minutes conversation

I have problems as an investor in the stock market, I have to learn to be patient and take one thing a time.

My idea is to sell 25% equity and then use those cash to hedge against my left 25% equity.

My friend asked me if I like to buy low and sell high, and lock in those losses. I told him that it will go down more, and then I can purchase more equity at that time.

I need to learn to be humble again

August 24, 2019

Introduction

It is my personal finance research. I chose to start personal finance research last November, and then learned that frugality should be my best choice, cut off all relative's emotional connections, focus on my own business. I do not want those depressed stuff and try to find ways to cut off. I do not want anything in my life, no material things, I can live happy and healthy and smart.

My email

I wrote an email to reflect on my thought process. I know that it is tough business world. No one will pay attention to my writing, since I like to write and express myself.

HI, xxx, 

I read your email. It is such great to hear from you about the result about onsite interview. I definitely like the whole experience of interview, including final result. I am just hunger for success, and so happy to meet those hard working engineers in Facebook. 

I wish that I could have impressed them with my curiosity, and quick-to-learn, sports-style problem solving and coding approach. It is very challenging job to work on big project like Instagram, ads team, work for Facebook in general. I am looking for the best opportunity, and also Facebook works so hard to identify who has potential. We all take calculated risk to figure out best for us. 

My boss - owner of company XX xxxxxing sent the email once a few years ago with all kinds of paper piling on the table to the office, remind us to clean up, throw away things when we moved the office. He told me a few times how to work better with young people in the office. 

I enjoy my current job, and also I enjoy to work on more algorithm and data structure practice, 

Feel free to reach me any time if I have chance to be interviewed. I will be very happy to apply again. 

Also if you can share me more about feedback, it will be great help for me as well. 


Sincerely, 

jianmin chen 

Actionable Items

August 25, 2019 - 12:05 AM

It is so important for me to review my own thought process. I just reviewed the onsite interview, and then I noticed that I was so rude, in my thinking process; I did not send an email in Sunday August 18 or August 19 to notify the recruiter that I came to San Francisco as planned. I did not think for others, specially a big company to work together closely. 

I decided to change the blog title from "Look for fair chance" to "I need to learn to be humble again". 

I also decide to start to learn how to be a project manager through youtube.com. I like to be a person who knows how and what to communicate, and be able to allow people smart and successful people in Facebook feel comfortable to work closely with me. 

I like to continue to advance my algorithm and data structure practice, and really make it my hobby and good topics for me to learn how to write as a writer. 

Case study: RBC bank and my date with mortgage

January 8, 2019

Introduction

It is my personal finance research. I came cross the article called cross border mortgage in google search. So I visited RBC bank today. I like to date my money, and try to get some mortgage advice.

Bank willing to work with US asset

I am banking with Scotia bank. I set an appointment with scotia bank and tried to sell RRSP fund and plan to purchase Scotia index fund. I like to get into index fund for next 12 months. I need to learn to watch the market and discipline my behavior. I did personal finance research and then I found out that I sold VIGRX in 2002 and then totally forgot it.

I am a single person but I should try to make opportunities for me to date my money, so I can learn from bank mortgage specialist and new graduate from top universities in Canada who works for those banks.

I know that the market is too high and a lot of people gambling the real estate. I should time the market and now it is too late.

Paper work to prepare

1. Last three month USA chase bank statements for my rental
2. My US asset last three month statements
3. My Canada asset last three month statements
4. My Property tax and condo association fee for rental property, rental income.
5. My social security in USA and other
6. 2016 T1 General
7. 2017 T1 General
8. Notice of assessment
9. 20% down payment

45 minutes coaching from Tsinghua coach

August 5, 2018

Introduction

It is Sunday morning 8:00 AM. I had chance to talk to my ex-coach forty minutes about a few algorithms and he also gave me his analysis. He is in the city of Beijing and I am in the city of Vancouver.

It is so surprising to have a coach and then I know what to do next. I like to write down the conversation by the time.

Time line

8:00 - 8:10
I described the algorithm called to define an iterator for list of iterators. He said that he did not really understand the problem, so I explained the problem to him. There are two possibilities, one is all lists are sorted, second one is not sorted. If all lists are sorted, then define a minimum heap. If all lists are not sorted, then put everything in the minimum heap. The time complexity should be nlogm, n is total nodes in all lists, m is number of lists.

He said that if the list is not sorted, it can be sorted using in place, like quick sort as well. ( I like the idea and did not think about it at all. )
你也可以把一个 iterator 排好序， 用 inplace, quick sort.

I told him that I studied the algorithm one day before, called Merge k sorted lists in Leetcode.

The coach said that you have to calm down, work on more Leetcode easy level algorithm. You can finish 40 algorithms in one month (July 10 - August 5), one year you can finish 400 algorithms. Overall, if you do not practice enough, you will be nervous, or all kinds of problems.

Julia： 我感觉紧张。 我照你说的去做， 刷了四十道题。 二道题都在里面。
Coach： 刷题没有刷够。 就会出各种问题。 就像高考， 你没有考好。 不是再考一次， 应该准备一年， 基本功练好。 中国人就只能刷题。
Coach： 你现在一个月刷了 40 道题， 一年就能刷400 道题。你可以写邮件要求第二次，但是只看现场表现。
Julia： 刷题感觉累。 周六就刷了五道题。
Coach：不能赶速度。 有时候我刷题也感觉累。 动脑太多。

8:10 - 8:20
我开始讲bad version 这道题。 我想用数值， 提醒用数组， 预处理就用了时间 O(N). 我用了二个变量， 好的和坏的version。 用二分法， 找中间值。 如果是坏的， 看左边的邻居是好还是坏。
这道题从开始到结束就用了20分钟。 我就没有给机会回到第一道题。 不停地提问题。

8:20 - 8:30
我开始讲 infix expression to construct binary expression tree. 用堆栈来做。(1+2), 把(1+2推进栈， 碰到)， 开始出栈。
其实我想拿一部分分数， 没有用堆栈。不管如何，用堆栈。postfix 用堆栈。但是infix也是可以用堆栈， 你自己多用几个左右括号，就自己搞定规则。

coach： 可以转换成 postfix expression.
Julia: 不用转。 直接用堆栈。 反正用多余的左右() enforce priority. 多余的左右() 便宜。

8:30 - 8:40
Julia: 我开始讲刷题把一个BST转换成链表。 我开始把左子树换成链表， 连到右子树链表。 花了一个小时。 通不过。 换一种思路， 用二个变量， 前一个和当前， 五分钟写出来。 觉得不对， 把第一个思路做通。 用中序做了， 想想后序也有可能做通。
coach: 刷题把几种思路都做了。 有时刷了100道， 其实就刷了10道。 你把多个思路都刷了， 下一道就可能有同样的思路。

Julia： 我觉得这次刷四十道题， 刷出兴趣来了。 以前刷题少， 因为没有体会到乐趣和好处。 还有就是刷题好的多的， 就不在朋友圈里。


Julia： 我又讲一道难题， 一年前刷了， 几个月前又研究了， 写了十个博客。各种想法。 结果还是不会做。 这次我就记住一个例子， 自己解释如何用这个例子， 解释如何除去多余括号。链接在这：去除多余的左右括号。

Julia: 我还在做面试, interviewing.io, 我最近碰到一个Waterloo本科生， 做过二次谷歌实习。他解题就比较有策略。把问题弄清楚。

Julia： 我沟通问题， 一问一答。我有时回答问题。接着说。
coach：这个不好指导。只能靠多刷题。 题目见的多了，自然就会轻松应付。