Preface: 2015 was a dynamite year for the Slope of Hope. Some of the year’s highlights:
- The celebration of our 10th anniversary;
- A surge in the popularity of Slope Plus, our subscription-based offering
- A king’s riches in fantastic posts from many authors, the best of which I am highlighting during this long weekend. (Slope has had literally tens of thousands of posts in its lifetime).
Here are today’s highlights, some of which you might want to re-read. This took a huge amount of time to put together (to say nothing of the time it took to write the posts in the first place), so I hope you enjoy it.
- The Charlie X Solution – my response to the Charlie Hebdo killings. I think this is some of the finest writing I’ve ever done. Sadly, the world has not taken me up on my brilliant plan.
- Perfect Palo Alto – in which I examine the hiring of guards at the train tracks to try to reduce the number of Palo Alto high school students throwing themselves in front of locomotives.
- Learning to Learn – some lessons I took away as I tried my hand at binary trading.
- Top Tick Tyler – in which I rant about how ZeroHedge seems to inadvertently call major turning points, and how their dire predictions really never come true.
- Relativity – a very interesting success story about how my method of trading was able to prosper in the face of what seemed like very dire circumstances.
- The Time Warp Again – if I may say so, an incredibly good post about how much the Silicon Valley has changed since when I was in my teens.
- Ten Years of Hope – celebrating Slope of Hope’s 10th anniversary
- Negative Interest – in which I despair about my almost total lack of interest in the market at the time. Not surprisingly, this was almost exactly the peak of the entire world of equities.
- It’s Not Getting Any Smaller – my take-down of gold kooks who used this tired phrase as an excuse for their lame-ass, always-goes-down investment.
- Do You Want to Know a Secret? – wherein I tear apart another idiotic startup.
- God As a Dog – a tear-jerking post about the death of my beloved Kobe. Tissues required.
- Transports Less than 2% Away From Failure – here I call for the Dow Transports to begin dropping hard. I, umm, was correct.
- Silicon Shark Jumps the Shark – a brilliant overview of the so-called Startup Castle. Out of curiosity, I clicked on the link, and it goes straight to a 404 page. Figures.
Well, get busy – – go read those that look enticing!