| Introduction |
Having spent some dozen years writing about financial stuff, I gaze at my web site and find it's far too confusing:
>You're telling me!
Yes ... well, with over 800 web pages and some 400+ spreadsheets I thought it'd be useful to go through that stuff, methodically.
Hence this set of chapters in a kind of financial "book" ... which may survive me. 
>But you're a lousy investor.
Uh ... that's true, but there are lots of people who read gummy-stuff.org
and they might appreciate a slow journey through the maze of tutorials.
Anyway, here's what I intend to do ... and it may take me forever to finish. 
| Contents |
| Portfolio Picks | Choosing what to invest in: diversification |
| Correlation | What it means ... and doesn't mean. |
| Standard Deviation | The volatility of returns. |
| When to Buy | Buy & Sell indicators ... a jillion of them. |
| Monte Carlo | ... and what it'll does and don't do. |
| Return Distributions | ... and how to interpret 'em. |
| Getting the data | ... from yahoo |
| Returns | Average and Annualized ... and why the difference? |
| Predicting the Future | (Good luck!) |
| Withdrawing from your Portfolio | Will it run dry? |
| Keeping Track | ... of your Portfolio |
| Odds & Ends | non Financial Stuff |
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Much of the stuff is encapsulated in a collection of charts (and associated tutorials) here
... which I try to keep up-to-date.
There's also a neato QUIZ here ... the answers to which I've forgotten, long ago.