Right now I am busy preparing for the next run of my program beginning tomorrow. I'm quite grateful that I still have a decent business this COVID-19 season. Course materials are slowly expanding to account for changes in the economy and my burgeoning coding skills.

a) Progress in coding - Correlation Matrices

I've stopped Python classes at the moment to consolidate what I have learnt by writing useful code to deepen my understanding of our local markets and come up with superior lecture slides. My latest development is that I wrote a short script that can generate correlation matrices.

Apologies if the above printout does not look user friendly at all, but it has interesting insights in that it tries to arrange correlations between local banks against the STI ETF. Predictably the numbers are quite high with banks performing almost in close tandem with each other. With these numbers, I'm...