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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Investing

Bookmarks

  1. Reventure App: Real Estate Market Intelligence

    Reventure is a real estate data analytics platform providing market insights for investors and homebuyers — visualizing price trends, affordability, and market dynamics across US markets. Data-driven real estate analysis accessible to individual investors.

  2. ARK Big Ideas 2022

    ARK Invest's 2022 annual Big Ideas report lays out their investment thesis across five disruptive technology platforms: genomics, robotics, energy storage, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. It's both a market forecast and a statement of where ARK believes exponential cost curves will reshape entire industries over the next decade.

  3. FIRE Flow Chart v4.2 — r/financialindependence

    The r/financialindependence community's canonical FIRE flowchart (v4.2) — a decision tree for prioritizing savings and investment vehicles on the path to financial independence. Distills community consensus on order of operations for building wealth.

  4. An Intern's Guide to Trading

    A Nasdaq primer on trading mechanics for interns entering financial firms — order types, market microstructure basics, and how professional trading differs from retail investing. Good orienting material before entering a trading-adjacent role.

  5. Secrets of Crypto Thread

    A Twitter thread from SecretsOfCrypto explaining crypto concepts or market dynamics, saved in May 2021 at the height of the crypto bull run. Context suggests educational content about crypto investing or mechanics.

  6. Two Books That Turned a 26-Year-Old Programmer Into a Billionaire

    An Entrepreneur's Handbook article about the two books that most influenced a young billionaire programmer — likely covering mental models and systems thinking as frameworks for decision-making. The article is paywalled but the premise is evergreen.

  7. Thoughts on Sea Limited

    Julie Young's investment thesis for Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) as the potential Tencent of Southeast Asia — three integrated businesses (Garena gaming, Shopee e-commerce, SeaMoney fintech) with network effects across a region that mirrors China 5-7 years prior.

  8. The Case for Bitcoin in an Institutional Portfolio

    A 2020 paper or analysis making the case for Bitcoin allocation in an institutional portfolio — a genre of investment thesis that became prominent as hedge funds and institutional investors began evaluating crypto exposure. Saved via Twitter link in August 2020.

  9. Stanford CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers

    Adam Nash's slides from Stanford CS 007 — a practical personal finance course for engineers covering investment theory, tax-advantaged accounts, equity compensation, and real estate. One of the few structured finance curricula aimed specifically at tech workers.

  10. r/fatFIRE: Wealth and Financial Independence / Retire Early

    The r/fatFIRE subreddit — community for people pursuing financial independence with high income and spending targets, typically $10K+/month in retirement. The high-income complement to the frugality-focused FIRE movement.

  11. HEDGEFUNDIE's Excellent Adventure: Leveraged ETF Risk Parity

    The legendary Bogleheads forum thread by user HEDGEFUNDIE proposing a two-fund leveraged ETF portfolio — 55% UPRO (3x S&P) + 45% TMFF (3x long-term Treasuries) — as a retail-accessible risk parity strategy. High risk, high reward, not for most investors.

  12. 10 Options Strategies to Know

    Investopedia's overview of 10 common options trading strategies — from the covered call to the iron condor. A practical reference for understanding the risk/reward profiles of standard options positions, useful for any investor venturing beyond stock picking.

  13. Ask HN: I Have $450K Cash — What Should I Do to Maximize Return?

    A Hacker News thread asking what to do with $450K cash — the top advice clusters around index fund investing, avoiding market timing, and tax-advantaged accounts. A useful snapshot of HN's finance consensus in 2020.

  14. The 3 Stages of Education Investing We're Ignoring

    A Medium essay arguing that education investors focus almost entirely on pre-workforce schooling while ignoring the much larger opportunities in continuing education and workforce reskilling. Prescient about the retraining problem that would define the 2020s.

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