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Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
A Three-Day Plan You Can Actually Finish

Sep 23, 2026

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4 min read

A Three-Day Plan You Can Actually Finish

Use the time you have to produce evidence of fit, practise the work, and rehearse under pressure.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Choose Your First Finance Apprenticeship

Sep 22, 2026

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4 min read

Choose Your First Finance Apprenticeship

Three different places to begin. The better choice depends on which skills you want to practise, and who will teach you.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Read the Offer Behind the Salary

Sep 21, 2026

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4 min read

Read the Offer Behind the Salary

A practical way to compare the money, the manager, and the work you will actually do.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Choose the Job. Then Choose the Qualification.

Sep 20, 2026

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4 min read

Choose the Job. Then Choose the Qualification.

A practical way to compare the work you want, the opportunities a programme offers, and the money and time you can commit.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
One Finance Project. Three Useful Tools.

Sep 19, 2026

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3 min read

One Finance Project. Three Useful Tools.

Start with an analysis you can explain. Then choose the tools that help you build it, check it, and repeat it.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Where a Rate Hike Enters Your Model

Sep 18, 2026

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3 min read

Where a Rate Hike Enters Your Model

The useful work starts with the loan terms. Then follow the change through interest expense, cash flow, and the assumptions behind your valuation.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Which Finance Job Would You Actually Enjoy?

Sep 17, 2026

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4 min read

Which Finance Job Would You Actually Enjoy?

Three desks. One business. Try the questions an investment banker, an equity researcher, and an FP&A analyst would ask.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
The Analyst Who Can Explain the Answer

Sep 16, 2026

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3 min read

The Analyst Who Can Explain the Answer

A change in banking recruitment raises a useful question: can you show where AI helped, where it failed, and why you trusted the final result?

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
How Warren Buffett Actually Picks Stocks

Sep 15, 2026

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4 min read

How Warren Buffett Actually Picks Stocks

Warren Buffett turned $1,000 into about $55 million while the market turned it into $391,000. Here is how he actually does it, and why the method is simpler, and harder, than it looks.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Is AI the New Dot-Com?

Sep 14, 2026

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4 min read

Is AI the New Dot-Com?

Big Tech will pour about $725 billion into AI this year alone. The obvious question is whether we are watching the future being built, or a bubble being inflated. Here is how I actually think about it.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
IPOs Are Back. Read This Before You Buy One.

Sep 13, 2026

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3 min read

IPOs Are Back. Read This Before You Buy One.

2026 has been the hottest IPO market in years, capped by the largest IPO in history. Before you chase the next hot debut, here is what the data actually says about who makes money, and who provides it.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
How a Profitable Company Runs Out of Cash

Sep 12, 2026

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3 min read

How a Profitable Company Runs Out of Cash

A company can report a profit every single year and still go bankrupt. It happens more often than you would think, and the warning is always in the same place: the cash flow statement.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
The Warning Signs Hiding in Plain Sight

Sep 11, 2026

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5 min read

The Warning Signs Hiding in Plain Sight

Every few years a healthy-looking company collapses and everyone asks how nobody saw it coming. Usually the warning signs were sitting in the financials for years. Here is how to read them.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
How Growth Bankrupts Companies

Sep 10, 2026

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3 min read

How Growth Bankrupts Companies

Fast growth feels like the safest thing in the world. It is one of the most dangerous. The mechanism is working capital, and it has killed more growing companies than any recession.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
How to Value a Company With No Profits

Sep 9, 2026

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4 min read

How to Value a Company With No Profits

Amazon reported almost no profit for years and still became one of the most valuable companies on earth. Here is how analysts justify a large price for a business with no earnings, and how to tell a real case from a fantasy.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
How Private Equity Really Makes Money

Sep 8, 2026

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3 min read

How Private Equity Really Makes Money

It can look like alchemy: buy a company, wait a few years, sell it for multiples of what you put in. It is not alchemy. It is leverage, and here is exactly how it works.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Four Paths Into High Finance

Sep 7, 2026

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3 min read

Four Paths Into High Finance

Investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, equity research. They all sound prestigious. They are wildly different jobs. Here is the honest comparison before you commit years to one.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
What an IB Associate Really Earns

Sep 6, 2026

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2 min read

What an IB Associate Really Earns

Nine reads to take you from the fundamentals to the finance job you actually want.

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
The Most Misused Model in Finance

Sep 5, 2026

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3 min read

The Most Misused Model in Finance

By Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM - Founder, WallStreetMojo

Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo
Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM · Co-Founder, WallStreetMojo

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