grimoire-finance

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Skills (131)

• audit-financial-statements

  Use when planning or executing a financial statement audit or audit preparation process for an organization

• audit-internal-controls

  Use when reviewing, designing, or stress-testing internal financial controls — e.g., "how do I prevent fraud?", "what internal controls should we have?", "SOX compliance", "reviewing controls before audit", "segregation of duties

• calculate-break-even-analysis

  Use when calculating the break-even point for a product, service, or business to determine the sales volume needed to cover all costs

• calculate-profitability-ratios

  Use when evaluating a company's financial performance, comparing competitors, or assessing investment quality — e.g., "what's a good profit margin?", "how do I calculate ROIC?", "what does ROE tell me?", "interpreting gross vs. operating margin

• design-cost-allocation-system

  Use when assigning overhead or shared costs to products, services, departments, or customers — e.g., "how do I allocate overhead?", "activity-based costing vs. traditional?", "which products are actually profitable?", "cost per customer segment?

• design-financial-reporting-system

  Use when designing or overhauling a financial reporting system for a company, including chart of accounts, reporting cadence, and management reporting structure

• apply-zero-based-budgeting

  Use when restructuring a business's cost base during a turnaround, margin-improvement initiative, or annual budget cycle — building every expense line from a zero baseline and requiring explicit justification, rather than incrementally adjusting last year's budget forward.

• calculate-corporate-unit-economics

  Use when evaluating the profitability and scalability of a business model at the per-customer or per-transaction level

• calculate-customer-lifetime-value

  Use when calculating how much a customer is worth, pricing acquisition costs, or evaluating unit economics — e.g., "what's our LTV?", "how much can we spend to acquire a customer?", "LTV:CAC ratio?", "what's our payback period?

• calculate-npv-irr

  Use when evaluating capital investments, projects, or acquisitions using Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return analysis

• calculate-wacc

  Use when calculating the Weighted Average Cost of Capital for a company to use as the discount rate in valuation or capital budgeting decisions

• design-aml-compliance-program

  Use when a financial institution or money-services business needs an anti-money-laundering compliance program — building it around the specific pillars required under the Bank Secrecy Act (written policies, a designated compliance officer, ongoing training, independent testing, and customer due dili

• design-capital-structure

  Use when advising on or designing the optimal capital structure for a company, including debt-equity mix, financing decisions, and leverage analysis

• design-cash-flow-forecast

  Use when building a cash flow projection for a business — e.g., "will we run out of cash?", "how much runway do we have?", "13-week cash flow model", "cash flow forecast for fundraising

• design-exit-strategy

  Use when planning or evaluating how to exit a business — e.g., "how do I sell my company?", "M&A vs. IPO?", "what's my business worth?", "how do I prepare for acquisition?", "strategic vs. financial buyer?

• design-fortress-balance-sheet-strategy

  Use when setting a financial institution's or capital-intensive company's capital and liquidity policy — maintaining capital and liquidity buffers well beyond regulatory minimums specifically so the company can survive a severe crisis and, ideally, capitalize on distressed opportunities while weaker

• design-fundraising-strategy

  Use when planning to raise external capital for a business — e.g., "how do I raise a seed round?", "what should my Series A look like?", "how much dilution is acceptable?", "VC vs. angel vs. bootstrap?

• design-insurance-risk-transfer-strategy

  Use when deciding how an organization should handle a specific identified risk — choosing deliberately among retaining/self-insuring it, transferring it via insurance, avoiding it, or reducing it, rather than defaulting to insuring every risk or retaining every risk without a deliberate, risk-by-ris

• design-model-risk-management-framework

  Use when a financial institution or similarly regulated organization relies on quantitative models for decisions with material financial consequences — establishing independent model validation, a model inventory with defined ownership, and ongoing performance monitoring, rather than treating a mode

• design-pricing-strategy

  Use when setting, revising, or validating the pricing for a product or service

• design-treasury-governance-policy

  Use when a company's corporate treasury function manages cash, debt, hedging, or counterparty relationships without formal board-level authorization limits — establishing defined authority thresholds for treasury decisions, approved counterparty and instrument lists, and board or committee oversight

• write-financial-model

  Use when building a three-statement financial model for a company or business unit

• apply-active-bond-total-return-management

  Use when managing a fixed-income portfolio actively rather than passively — positioning duration based on an interest-rate view, rotating between credit sectors based on relative value, and pursuing total return (price appreciation plus income) rather than simply holding bonds to maturity for income

• apply-arbitrage-pricing-theory

  Use when evaluating an asset's expected return using multiple systematic risk factors — rather than a single market-factor model — identifying which specific macroeconomic and fundamental factors actually drive the asset's returns and how sensitive it is to each.

• apply-asymmetric-risk-reward-sizing

  Use when sizing a trading or investment position — requiring a specific minimum ratio of potential reward to defined risk (e.g., risking one dollar to make five) before entering, and cutting the position quickly if the predefined risk level is reached, prioritizing defense over being right on every

• apply-barbell-strategy

  Use when allocating capital and deciding how much exposure to take to speculative, high-upside opportunities — split allocation between an extremely safe majority and a small, explicitly capped allocation to high-convexity, open-ended-upside bets, while deliberately avoiding the medium-risk middle g

• apply-behavioral-investing-discipline

  Use when market volatility, a large gain, or a large loss is tempting a deviation from an investment plan — e.g., "should I sell during a crash?", "should I chase this hot stock?", "I panic-sold, what now?

• apply-benfen-principle

  Use when evaluating a company's management integrity, or one's own investing discipline — checking whether decisions stick to sound, honest fundamentals rather than chasing shortcuts or short-term expedience, per Duan Yongping's 本分 (běnfèn) principle.

• apply-buy-and-hold-strategy

  Use when deciding whether to hold an investment position through market fluctuations or attempt to trade in and out based on market conditions — e.g., "should I try to time the market?", "when should I sell before a downturn?", "does market timing work?

• apply-canslim-method

  Use when systematically screening for high-growth stock candidates — applying the CANSLIM framework's seven criteria (current and annual earnings growth, new catalysts, supply and demand, market leadership, institutional sponsorship, and overall market direction) together, rather than relying on any

• apply-capital-return-discipline

  Use when managing a fund or pool of capital during a period when no genuinely attractive opportunities meeting the fund's standards can be found — actively returning uninvested capital to investors rather than deploying it into a market offering no attractive opportunities just to remain fully inves

• apply-catalyst-driven-value-investing

  Use when evaluating an undervalued or distressed company — identifying a specific, checkable catalyst (restructuring, spin-off, management change, asset sale) that will realize the underlying value, rather than buying cheap assets and passively waiting for the market to notice.

• apply-cheap-tail-risk-hedging

  Use when a portfolio faces a low-probability but potentially catastrophic risk — buying asymmetric, deeply out-of-the-money protection (credit default swaps, far-out put options) while it's cheap because the market is complacent, so a small, defined cost caps portfolio damage if the tail risk materi

• apply-circle-of-competence

  Use when evaluating whether to invest in a business or industry — determining first whether you understand it well enough to judge its long-term economics, before assessing valuation or thesis quality.

• apply-commodity-supercycle-investing

  Use when evaluating commodities as an asset class — assessing where a specific commodity sits within a multi-decade supply-and-demand supercycle, since commodity prices move through long structural cycles distinct from equity market cycles and require a different, longer-horizon analytical framework

• apply-concentrated-conviction-investing

  Use when deciding how many individual positions to hold in a portfolio of individually-researched businesses — for an investor with genuine, deep understanding of a small number of businesses, choosing conviction-weighted concentration over broad diversification.

• apply-contrarian-sentiment-timing

  Use when broad market pessimism or panic has depressed prices — evaluating whether the fear is creating a genuine buying opportunity in businesses whose long-term economics haven't changed.

• apply-currency-hedging-strategy

  Use when holding assets or expecting cash flows denominated in a foreign currency — deciding whether and how much to hedge the currency exposure using forwards, futures, or options, so currency movements don't dominate or obscure the underlying investment or business return.

• apply-davis-double-play

  Use when evaluating a growth company trading at a low valuation multiple — recognizing the compounding return potential from both future earnings growth and a subsequent expansion of the valuation multiple itself, rather than expecting return from earnings growth alone.

• apply-distressed-credit-cycle-investing

  Use when a financial crisis has depressed distressed debt and equity prices and government or central-bank intervention has established a policy backstop — assessing whether that backstop creates an asymmetric opportunity in the distressed securities most directly protected by it.

• apply-dollar-cost-averaging

  Use when deciding whether to invest a lump sum immediately or spread it across regular intervals — e.g., "should I DCA or invest all at once?", "how do I invest a windfall/inheritance/bonus?", "lump-sum vs dollar-cost averaging

• apply-dow-theory

  Use when determining whether a market's primary trend is genuinely intact — requiring confirmation across multiple market averages and volume, and treating a trend as persisting until a clear, confirmed reversal signal appears, rather than reacting to every short-term price fluctuation.

• apply-downside-protection-principle

  Use when evaluating any investment decision — filtering first for permanent capital loss risk before considering upside potential, per Buffett's \"Rule No. 1: never lose money.\"

• apply-early-profit-taking-discipline

  Use when a position has produced substantial gains during a rising market — deliberately selling before the peak and accepting leaving further gains on the table, rather than holding for the absolute top and risking a much larger reversal.

• apply-earnings-acceleration-momentum

  Use when screening growth stocks — favoring companies whose earnings growth rate is itself accelerating (growing faster than the prior period's growth rate), not merely companies with a high but stable or decelerating growth rate.

• apply-earnings-surprise-overreaction-strategy

  Use when a stock has dropped sharply on negative earnings or news — assessing whether the market has systematically overreacted relative to the fundamental impact, since documented research shows low-expectation stocks recover from negative surprises more often than sentiment alone would predict.

• apply-elliott-wave-theory

  Use when analyzing a price chart's structure for repeating crowd-psychology patterns — classifying price movement into a five-wave impulse pattern in the direction of the trend followed by a three-wave corrective pattern, to form a view on where a market cycle currently stands within this repeating

• apply-everyday-observation-sourcing

  Use when looking for new investment ideas — treating everyday consumer or professional observations (a product you love, a store you notice thriving) as a starting point for research, never as a substitute for it.

• apply-fertile-field-growth-investing

  Use when selecting which industries to focus growth-stock research on — favoring "fertile fields" (industries still early in their growth cycle with significant runway) over mature industries, and holding positions through multiple business cycles as the industry matures.

• apply-fisher-growth-checklist

  Use when evaluating a growth stock qualitatively — checking a company against Philip Fisher's specific fifteen points covering sales growth potential, R&D commitment, profit margins, and management integrity, rather than relying on quantitative screens alone.

• apply-fixed-fractional-risk-limit

  Use when sizing any individual trading or investment position — capping the maximum loss any single position can inflict to a small, fixed percentage of total capital, regardless of how strong the conviction behind that specific position is, so no single mistake can inflict catastrophic account dama

• apply-forensic-accounting-short-thesis

  Use when evaluating a specific company as a potential short candidate — conducting detailed forensic analysis of financial statements for signs of aggressive accounting, revenue recognition manipulation, or outright fraud, rather than shorting based on valuation or sentiment alone.

• apply-global-value-investing

  Use when a single domestic market appears broadly overvalued or offers limited opportunity — searching across all countries and markets for the most undervalued opportunities globally, and buying specifically at the point of maximum pessimism in a given market.

• apply-guppy-multiple-moving-average

  Use when assessing trend strength and potential trend changes on a price chart — plotting two groups of moving averages (short-term "trader" group and long-term "investor" group) and reading their relative separation and compression as a signal of trend strength, consensus, and potential reversal.

• apply-hot-industry-avoidance

  Use when considering a stock in an industry currently generating intense media attention, a wave of new IPOs, or widespread public enthusiasm — screening for whether the enthusiasm reflects genuine, durable business economics before entering.

• apply-index-fund-investing

  Use when choosing between actively managed funds and low-cost index funds, or building a simple diversified portfolio from a small number of funds — e.g., "should I pick stocks or index funds?", "what is a three-fund portfolio?", "active vs passive investing

• apply-investment-speculation-test

  Use when deciding whether a specific proposed operation qualifies as investment or speculation — testing whether thorough analysis actually supports safety of principal and an adequate return, rather than assuming any stock purchase is automatically "investing.

• apply-investor-type-classification

  Use when setting up an overall investment approach — honestly classifying yourself as a defensive (passive, minimal-effort) or enterprising (active, willing to do substantial extra work) investor, and committing to that track's rules rather than drifting between the two.

• apply-kostolany-egg-theory

  Use when judging where a market cycle currently stands — classifying the current phase as correction, adjustment (accumulation or distribution), or trend (exaggeration) using Kostolany's egg-shaped cycle model, to judge whether a move is likely to continue, pause, or reverse.

• apply-leverage-avoidance

  Use when considering margin debt or other borrowed capital to increase an equity position — evaluating why leverage's asymmetric risk of forced liquidation outweighs its return-amplifying appeal.

• apply-lollapalooza-effect-detection

  Use when observing an extreme market move, bubble, or crowd behavior — checking whether multiple psychological biases are compounding in the same direction simultaneously, producing an effect far larger than any single bias would explain alone.

• apply-long-short-equity-strategy

  Use when constructing a portfolio around both the best and worst companies identified through fundamental research — going long the strongest businesses and short the weakest, rather than expressing research conviction only on the long side.

• apply-low-pe-total-return-investing

  Use when screening stocks for value — comparing a stock's P/E ratio against its total return potential (earnings growth plus dividend yield) rather than judging P/E or growth in isolation, favoring low-P/E stocks whose combined growth and yield justify a higher total-return-to-P/E ratio.

• apply-mr-market-allegory

  Use when a daily price quote is tempting an emotional reaction — treating the market as an erratic business partner who offers a price every day, and recognizing you're never obligated to transact with him just because he shows up.

• apply-pyramiding-entry-technique

  Use when building a position in a stock or trade that is confirming the original thesis with favorable price movement — adding to the position incrementally as it moves in the expected direction, rather than committing the full intended size all at once at initial entry.

• apply-quality-over-cheapness

  Use when choosing between a statistically cheap but mediocre business and a higher-quality business at a fair price — deciding what "cheap" should actually mean in an investment decision.

• apply-reflexivity-theory

  Use when analyzing a market trend that seems to be feeding on itself — checking whether participants' perceptions and actions are actively altering the fundamentals they're supposedly reacting to, creating a self-reinforcing feedback loop rather than a market simply converging on stable equilibrium

• apply-scuttlebutt-research

  Use when researching a specific company candidate — actively visiting stores, talking to employees, customers, suppliers, and competitors to gather firsthand information not available in financial filings.

• apply-shareholder-activism-strategy

  Use when identifying an underperforming company with a significant, addressable gap between current value and potential value under different management or capital-allocation decisions — taking a meaningful ownership stake and actively pushing for specific changes, rather than passively waiting for

• apply-stock-categorization-framework

  Use when evaluating what kind of return and holding behavior to expect from a stock — classifying it as a slow grower, stalwart, fast grower, cyclical, turnaround, or asset play, and matching expectations and exit discipline to that category.

• apply-systematic-quantitative-trading

  Use when building a trading strategy from statistical patterns in historical data rather than fundamental analysis or discretionary judgment — requiring every signal to be backtested and quantitatively validated before capital is committed, and removing discretionary override once a validated model

• apply-ten-bagger-strategy

  Use when constructing a growth-oriented portfolio expecting most positions to underperform or fail, but a small number to multiply many times over — sizing and portfolio construction around a search for ten-baggers rather than uniform expected returns.

• apply-this-time-is-different-skepticism

  Use when a current debt buildup, asset boom, or credit expansion is being explained away as structurally different from past episodes that ended in crisis — check the situation against the same quantitative markers (debt-to-GDP trajectory, capital-inflow surges, asset-price acceleration) that have p

• apply-three-baskets-triage

  Use when evaluating a new investment opportunity — quickly sorting it into "yes," "no," or "too hard," and stopping further analysis immediately once it lands in the too-hard basket rather than continuing to grind through it.

• apply-turtle-trading-system

  Use when designing a systematic, rules-based trend-following approach — defining explicit, mechanical rules for entry (breakout confirmation), position sizing (volatility-based units), and exit, removing subjective, in-the-moment discretion from the trading process.

• apply-variant-perception-strategy

  Use when forming a trading or investment view — requiring the view to differ meaningfully from prevailing consensus on a specific, near-term, checkable point, not merely differ in general sentiment, since a view identical to consensus offers no edge regardless of whether it's correct.

• audit-alternative-investments

  Use when considering investments outside stocks and bonds — e.g., "should I invest in private equity?", "is crypto a good portfolio diversifier?", "how do REITs compare to direct real estate?", "what about commodities?

• audit-balance-sheet-debt-risk

  Use when evaluating a company's financial risk as part of a stock investment decision — checking debt levels against the company's cash flow stability and cyclicality, since heavy debt removes the staying power a business needs to survive a downturn.

• audit-cognitive-tendency-checklist

  Use when reviewing a specific investment decision before committing capital — checking it against a checklist of named psychological tendencies (incentive-caused bias, social proof, commitment/consistency bias, authority influence, and others) that could be distorting the judgment behind it.

• audit-counterparty-credit-risk

  Use when entering a derivative contract, securities lending arrangement, or any transaction where a specific counterparty owes a future obligation — assessing that specific counterparty's ability to actually meet its obligation, distinct from broad market or credit-bubble risk, since a transaction's

• audit-defensive-investor-screen
• audit-diworsification-risk
• audit-emerging-market-risk
• audit-inventory-growth-red-flag
• audit-investment-fees
• audit-investment-thesis
• audit-management-capital-allocation
• audit-systemic-credit-bubble-risk
• calculate-binomial-option-pricing
• calculate-bollinger-bands
• calculate-bond-duration-convexity
• calculate-compound-interest
• calculate-dcf
• calculate-margin-of-safety
• calculate-owner-earnings
• calculate-peg-ratio
• calculate-private-market-value
• calculate-risk-adjusted-return
• calculate-value-at-risk
• calculate-williams-percent-r
• design-bond-ladder
• design-concentration-risk-limits
• design-defensive-stock-bond-range
• design-dividend-investing-strategy
• design-glide-path-allocation
• design-liquidity-risk-management
• design-portfolio-allocation
• design-portfolio-stress-test
• design-rebalancing-strategy
• design-risk-parity-portfolio
• design-tax-loss-harvesting-plan
• audit-tax-efficiency
• calculate-fire-number
• calculate-mortgage-affordability
• calculate-net-worth
• design-budget
• design-charitable-giving-plan
• design-college-savings-plan
• design-debt-payoff-plan
• design-estate-plan
• design-insurance-coverage-plan
• design-tax-optimization-plan
• negotiate-salary
• optimize-credit-score
• calculate-cap-rate
• calculate-real-estate-roi
• calculate-rental-yield
• design-1031-exchange-plan
• design-house-hacking-strategy
• design-real-estate-development-strategy
• design-real-estate-due-diligence