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Thursday, April 23, 2020

Who wants to go back to school? Corona virus diary 5


My daughter said that she wants to go back to school. She cried when I told her yesterday that the schools will be closed till end of May. After that there is summer break. No school until August. She cried with bitter tears. 

How the graphs of daily deaths look like now? 





In the beginning the incline was about 45 degrees. It definitely stopped for Italy. For the USA it might be coming now. 




Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Are the graphs of daily deaths saying anything? Corona diary 4


I am watching the statistics for the Corona cases. 
Mainly I am watching the reports of the daily deaths. The daily new infections are interesting too, but the testing is not the same from country to country. 

I trust the death reports more and think that they will be more useful in comparisons. 

The graphs below are from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


The general feeling is that Italy and Spain are the front runners and that the USA and Germany are behind. I am looking at Germany because my sister lives there. 

On the two graphs below we can see that both countries started to slow down in the rates of daily new deaths. 







The plateau was approximately from March 28 till April 4.




If I shift the Italy versus USA, it looks like we are there where Italy was about March 31-April 1. 





This way it looks like the shift is about 1 week. If this is correct, we should see the slow down in daily new deaths soon. 





Friday, April 3, 2020

"Cash flow challenge" summary 2019



The total cash flow from investments in 2019 was $143,241. 

That is still Level 2 of my "Cash flow challenge" - "Sailing".

It was about the same as last year (for 2018 the total was approximately $146,000). I didn't have significant incerases in the capital involved and kept more in cash.

Below is my cash flow per month and the S&P 500 performance for 2019. 

my cash flow


                                                                      S&P500 returns in %


My minimum per month was above $2,000 and the maximum this year was about $22,000 (compared to the last year minimum of above $2,000 and maximum of about $19,000). 

It is April 2020 and the Coronavirus flying around in full speed. The numbers for 2020 will not be good.