Who and missä/where?

So.. As my first blog: Who? An introduction.

Mhm so I am a bachelor student of finance and accounting and I've also started my master's studies in finance. I have known that I want to study something business related for almost 10 years. For a long time finance wasn't my goal, it was either management or marketing but when came the time to choose I again remembered what basic things I actually love to do. Mainly it was football manager games. I used to love LMA Manager (last LMA version I think), all those little adjustments and handling money and watching charts. I was able to spend hours looking and charts and figuring out what players I will try to buy for my team. Now I know that I will go for a career in the financial markets and I love to study the markets and learn to understand them.

I´m 23 years old and Finnish born, also still living and studying in Finland. I could blog in Finnish but because I aim to find an international career I will write mainly in English and perhaps sometimes in Finnish. I study in a Finnish university and currently I have been working in a bank for six months. It started as a summer job and they continued my contract because they needed helping hands and I needed more experience. They would have liked to have me there till the end of this year but I need to get back to my studies after this month. 

What will I write about... :

My texts will mostly be about something investing related. I might write about anything between stocks and cow futures. Anything that I can personally invest in and find interesting is a potential topic. Usual topics will probably  be stocks, companies behind them and ETFs for commodities and metals. As a Finn my speciality of course is Nordic stocks and what might, or as an investing possibility should, be interesting to other people is the chance of me writing about more local investing possibilities that are quite unknown to most people who do not get much information from this part of the world.

What kind of an investor am I?

I consider myself to be very fearless to risk taking. I think about the markets from more typical like CAPM perspective and also from behavioral perspective etc. I will hold some companies for years, some for short periods or sell some short and also I might bet that metal prices are going down. My portfolio is still very small but eventually it will be quite versatile as I gain more money and experience.

What I hope to gain by blogging:

I decided to start this to gain a new level with myself. I really try to learn new ways to see the world and improve myself by learning something new and learning to understand my own behavior. I´m also trying to learn to think and argue better. That is a challenge that I am not getting enough in my normal life so feedback and counterarguments through this can be very useful for my development. Also possibility of gaining new interesting contacts interests me.

As I now start this.. I might blog about my ideas and turns of life for many years from now. Hopefully I will be able to teach someone something new and interesting so we can all learn to see the world in a different light and enjoy what it has to offer :) More stuff later. Be free to send me comments and questions!

P.S. While I´m finishing this text I´m listening to Fatboy Slim (Right Here, Right Now) which makes me feel quite happy ;)

-M.C.