One week already passed since results release. Lets check progress as we don’t have much time to waste. First read : Fixed Income - including concept checkers & problems. Weekend plan - Derivatives - options, CFAI questions on Fixed Income.
i also started with Fixed Income, I have read 150 pages, target is to finish first reading of 3 books in Feb
I also have similar plan - Feb 09 FI, Derivatives Equity, Alt FSA Whats ur’s sameer - which 3 books.
I have to finish Quant, Eco, FRA and some of Corp Finance by the end of Feb…it’s the study pace of the classes I’m taking. Not really an option…but it keeps me on track so…
i have not thought abt it, but i picked fixed income because i think i m comfortable with it, would pick economics next, i need to cram it, i need to read it atleast 10 times, it was one of the two sections where i scored less than 70% I dont want to touch FSA yet…funny part is i cant recall which was the 5th book (apart from Equity, Alt) but i think that would be the third
I started the Monday after the L1 exam on Quant. and have read FSA, Equity, Corp. Fin. and am currently about 2/3 of the way through FI. I need to have lots of exposure to it all to make it stick though. I hope to have read everything at least once by end of March when I can switch to Secret Sauce and solid review and exam questions, with a solid 14-day holiday-come-cram-session leading up to the exam. (Schweser Book 5 is FI & Derivs.).
I’ve started with quant. and hope to complete FSA and as much of equity as I can by the end of this month. Basically I’m picking up topics that I’m not comfortable with and / or those that have the maximum weightage on the exam.
Farina: How many hours you have been devoting - you did fantastic job. I set an ambitious task of FSA, Equity in this February.
It’s not pretty, but I started off on 2-2.5hrs a day, every day of the week. I upped this to 3hrs a day (split into 2x 1.5hr sessions, 1 at crack of dawn the other as the day ends). I think it’s starting to work too. From my perspective of what I’ve read so far, level 2 doesn’t seem like it’s that much more complicated than L1, just a fair amount more of stuff to remember. The sooner I do this, the sooner I feel like I did in December (like I had it pinned down (which I did, I nailed every module >70% except economics and equity, which were 51-70% passes)). As I said above, personally, for me to remember it, I need the volume to make it stick. I sit next to a guy at work who passed L1, L2 and L3 consecutively in 18-months with what seemed like minimal study, so everyone’s different.
started at the beginning - now on SS8. but that was a quick overview of the topics - maybe 50% retention at best. I’ve been pleasantly suprised, FSA seems pretty painless, thanks to the level 1 stuff still being very fresh. But econ is going to kill me, my mind does not process fx stuff well.
I started with Quant on Sunday, and am finishing a review of it today (it’s kicking my a$$…I hope I can retain some of it). Econ is only like 100 pages of Schweser, so I plan to knock it out this weekend, and go in order from there.
I’m half way through corp finance now. I’ve completed: -ethics -quant -economics -skipped fsa, will come back to it (schweser study planner thing)
steph96 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I started with Quant on Sunday, and am finishing a > review of it today (it’s kicking my a$$…I hope I > can retain some of it). Econ is only like 100 > pages of Schweser, so I plan to knock it out this > weekend, and go in order from there. Spend some time on econ. It’s short but the FX stuff will mess with your mind, unless you are an FX trader or just “get it” 
By the end of Feb I will have completed ethics quant econ equity
TheAliMan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > steph96 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I started with Quant on Sunday, and am finishing > a > > review of it today (it’s kicking my a$$…I hope > I > > can retain some of it). Econ is only like 100 > > pages of Schweser, so I plan to knock it out > this > > weekend, and go in order from there. > > > Spend some time on econ. It’s short but the FX > stuff will mess with your mind, unless you are an > FX trader or just “get it” Thanks…Did you feel like Schweser adequately covered Econ? I was just surprised at how many readings they somehow crammed into 100 pages, especially since half of Econ is typically charts.
I couldn’t tell you because I haven’t received the CFAI books yet. The Econ here is wayyyy less material and practically no charts – a nice chance from the first level, that’s for sure!
I finished ethics, and have gone through reading 11 twice (once with CFA and once with Schweser), I have a pretty decent grasp of it I think, but need to do all the CFA questions tonight. I feel like if I understand reading 11 thoroughly then the remaining quant readings should come easy enough. The incentive of getting to econ is big (for me at least, I love it!).
I’ve been reading Schweser in order and I’m just finishing Quant today, and my plan is to knock out Econ this weekend. I also need a lot of exposure to make something stick… My schedule is to get 2 hours/night during the week and then 10+ on the weekends, but I’d like to squeeze in more time if I can.
Will finish up Quant tonight or tomorrow, and do some review this weekend. After quant I am going to go in order and do Ethics last. I am doing everything, except ethics, from the Schweser notes. So far the quant concepts do not seem too confusing, but the amount of information does seem pretty heavy.
You guys are pumped - I love it