I ended the year 2021 with, appropriately enough, 21 bearish positions. They are all puts expiring no earlier than February 18th and as late as April 14. Here are the final seven of them:

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I ended the year 2021 with, appropriately enough, 21 bearish positions. They are all puts expiring no earlier than February 18th and as late as April 14. Here are the final seven of them:

That’s it, ladies and gentlemen. It’s over. Below are a variety of major ETFs and indexes, deliberately display with yearly price bars, just to give a crude, big-picture view about the record-breaking year that just ended.

I ended the year 2021 with, appropriately enough, 21 bearish positions. They are all puts expiring no earlier than February 18th and as late as April 14. Here are another seven of them:

Preface to all parts: It’s that time of year again. I have written over 30,000 posts during the long history of Slope, and at the end of each year, I gather up what I consider the best of the prior year’s offerings. At the end of every year, I assume I’m utterly out of material, and yet at the same time, I look back with amazement at all the terrific posts from the year that has just completed. I’m not sure how long I can keep this up, but my concerns of content exhaustion have been proved wrong since March 2005. For your reading pleasure, I offer the following Best of 2021 Posts:
Tim Knight: Optimist
I’m not the Tim you thought I was
Low-Grade Heroes
$76 million dumped on county employees just for existing
Lessons Learned in the Cryptoverse
Looking back on the successful ticker.art NFT project
Crashed Out
This marked the end of my love affair with crypto, once and for all
A Friend’s Brush with Death
A former work colleague of mine writes at length about what it was like to almost die
Receding Airline
The lack of human workers has real consequences for millions of passengers
Tuba Mirum Spargens Sonum
The ridiculous objects I yearned to have as a child
