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My name is Kai Nguyen. I'm currently a Ph.D. in Accounting student at University of Illinois at Chicago.


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  • I first learned about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World years ago, and for some reason, that list never left me. There was something oddly humbling about it. I’ve always been an impatient person—the kind who wants results immediately. Even watching someone spend months on a single piece of…
  • My dear friend has a Maltipoo named Posey, and I loved spending time with her. She’s the kind of dog that just quietly exists next to you — calm, gentle, perfectly content doing absolutely nothing. She doesn’t demand attention, she doesn’t bounce off the walls, she doesn’t even seem particularly…
  • Most people come into trading with a pretty simple idea in their head. You buy something when it looks cheap, and you sell it when it looks expensive. If they’ve been around a little longer, they might flip that around - sell first, then buy it back lower, perhaps shorting…
  • Some traders have an impressive ability to take a fairly ordinary market behavior and give it a compelling name. “Fair value gap” was one of those for me. The first time I saw it, my reaction was pretty simple: what the hell is that? What gap? And more importantly: why…