Greetings from Palo Alto on a chilly Christmas Eve night. I’d like to share far and away my favorite music ever – Vince Guaraldi’s absolutely joyful Christmas is Coming.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Sputtering To Equilibrium
This is just kind of a throwaway post, since I hardly ever mention bonds……….but they sure seem to be just kind of meandering their way into narcolepsy at this point. That triangle has to break sometime soon. Anyway………I’d better focus on Christmas, since we’re hosting tomorrow!
Frankincense Miners
Looks like miners are really starting to shore up. Maybe 2016 will be the year when gold finally comes into its own again.
Embracing FOMO
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been “thinking out loud” about what to do with my portfolio before the close of the year here on Slope. I’ve been making a transition from my old broker to my new one, which has been going relatively smoothly, although there’s been a fair amount of learning and tweaking involved to my infrastructure. I lightened up substantially, as I said I would, before Yellen, but I started getting back in after that.
This Monday morning, an Internet outage threw my routine into a whirl, and I decided on the spot to swiftly cover all my remaining positions (15 of them remaining, down from 100) in my old account, which I hadn’t really planned to do. Since they were all shorts, and since Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were all big “up” days, I got lucky!
Thursday’s Christmas Carol
As we count down the days toward Christmas, I wanted each day to share a tidbit of my own best Christmas memories. Today’s entry is, of course, that finest of Slope holiday traditions Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. The entire glorious movie (rebuked nonstop, of course, by Joel and the ‘bots) is below, but if you want to see my favorite clip of all, just click here.
