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AnalysisJanuary 19, 2020April 11, 2020

Chocolate, at Any Cost: The Price Elasticity of the Candy Industry

Despite the increase in health consciousness among consumers, chocolate and other confectioneries are still in high demand The new pricing methods for cocoa could cause candy makers to hike their prices Some candy products have more room to change their prices because their quantity demanded won’t shift substantially. Other products are completely the opposite. Candy…

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AnalysisJanuary 11, 2020April 11, 2020

Kyla, Not Kayla: The Impact of Being Called the Wrong Name

A lot of people call me by the wrong name. Some variation of Kyle, Kayla (most common), or Kylie will normally replace the two-syllable name that my parents bestowed upon me twenty-two years ago (pronounced kuh/eye-la). Kyla means “triumphant” in Gaelic, a nod to my second-generation Irish heritage.

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AbstractJanuary 7, 2020January 15, 2021

Summarizing Malcom Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers in One Slide

I’ve been challenging myself to be concise lately. How can I explain information in the most succinct and understandable way?

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AnalysisJanuary 4, 2020April 11, 2020

The Bookstore to the App Store: What Our Apps Say About Us

This week has been tumultous, to say the least. The geopolitical environment is extremely tense, the discourse is combative, and no one can agree on anything. I spent the last week or so in Kentucky, and came back to Los Angeles last night.

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AbstractDecember 24, 2019January 15, 2021

My Favorite Charts, Pictures, and Ideas of 2019

Below are all my favorite pictures, ideas, and charts from January – December 2019 – a visual representation of some of the coolest things that I’ve been reading, thinking about, and studying for the past year. Most of them are scraped from the non-financial tweets that I’ve liked over the past 12 months.

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AnalysisDecember 5, 2019January 15, 2021

Statistics in One Slide: Sample Mean

“If you can’t explain it to a baby, then you don’t really understand it”

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AbstractDecember 2, 2019January 15, 2021

Seeing the Clouds for the First Time, Again

I was riding in an airplane recently, flying from Kentucky to Los Angeles. I had a three hour layover in the Las Vegas airport, which I spent reading about the correlation between value and momentum factors, as one does.

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AbstractNovember 28, 2019January 15, 2021

The Art of Running a Good Race

I used to be really into running. I ran all throughout middle school and high school, and had the opportunity to join my college’s Division I team my sophomore year. Unfortunately, timing was not on my side during that season of life, so I wasn’t able to fully execute my running dreams.

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AnalysisJuly 20, 2019January 15, 2021

Tableau Redesign: Revisiting the Student Needs Report

I’ve been able to spend some of my off-work time exploring data viz and am making my way through several different Tableau programs at the moment. I decided to revamp some of our Student Needs Report data, which was a project I did with two amazing colleagues, Francis and Victoria.

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Market AnalysisJune 12, 2019January 15, 2021

What’s Turning the Markets: The Fed, China, and Corporate Debt

The Federal Reserve has played an increasingly important role in investor sentiment. China is unlikely to roll off U.S. Treasuries due to the interconnectedness of the global economy. Triple B corporate debt is a huge risk factor to investors, and should be avoided. Combining a diversified portfolio of equities and bonds is the best path…

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Kyla Scanlon

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About Me

Scanlon on Stocks was founded in 2016 to chronicle my options investing experience. I was an options trader for 5+ years. The blog has evolved since then, with strong focus on the fundamentals as well as equity valuation and macroeconomic research. It now is focused on statistical analysis and other thought pieces.
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