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SB’s note: I originally wrote this post on my trading Blog on February 24, 2013, but thought I’d share it here with the good folks at Slope of Hope as we approach the end of 2015…and to wish a Happy Holidays to all…
No doubt, everyone has experienced some kind of loss over the years. Its consequences can be quite painful.
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 the Christmas character with whom I can most closely identify: the Grinch. Here is one of the greatest holiday songs ever made:
It’s a little early, I suppose, to be doing any kind of “end-of-year wrap-up” kind of post, but frankly, I don’t have anything new to say about the market, and I might as well share the one semi-pithy reflection I’ve got about 2015 at the moment.
My two errors this year actually contradict one another. My first error was not holding on to positions long enough. My other error was holding on to them for too long.
To address the first error: as some readers may recall, I made a post back in November 2014 called Shifting Sands which, even at the time I marked as a “Best of Slope” post since I considered it so important. My basic thesis was that oil producers were going to be wrecked, just like gold miners had. As I wrote, “I am inclined toward individual energy-related shorts, because I think they’re going to suffer the same gruesome fate as precious metals miners have”
