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4 guides in Finabase Learn
- Bond duration and convexity: measuring interest-rate risk How Macaulay and modified duration are calculated, a worked 10-year bond example, when convexity matters, and what duration did to Treasury ETFs in 2020–2024.
- Correlation between asset classes: how it works and why it shifts How to calculate a correlation by hand, what 12 years of monthly returns show across eight asset classes, and why the stock-bond correlation flipped in 2022.
- Linear vs logarithmic price scale: which chart to use and why How linear and log price scales differ, 33 years of SPY drawn both ways, the math of percentage moves, and when each scale gives the honest picture.
- Tax-loss harvesting: how it works, the wash-sale rule and its limits How tax-loss harvesting offsets gains and up to $3,000 of income under 2026 US federal rules, with worked examples, the wash-sale limit and the trade-offs.
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