Still from an r/WallStreetBets meme riffing on the 2006 movie 300.
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.
Precious Metals: Time To Move On

The final, six-month performance of our top ten names from August 6th, with three precious metals ETFs circled (Screen capture via Portfolio Armor).
(more…)Until It Was Too Late
A snowman in the shape of the Reddit alien in front of the Charging Bull statue in Manhattan’s financial district (image via r/WallStreetBets).
What Was Up When GameStop Tanked
Contra this GameStop billboard from North Dallas, lots of shareholders were selling on Tuesday, as the stock dropped 60% (Image via r/WallStreetBets).
Silver Isn’t The Next GameStop
We’re Bullish On SLV
Let’s get this out of the way, before we’re accused of being silver bears: we’ve been bullish on the iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) for months. Each trading day, we rank all the securities in our universe by our estimate of their potential returns over the next six months. We base that on our analysis of their past returns as well as options market sentiment on them. We broke down this analysis for SLV in December (Why-Oh Silver). SLV was one of our top ten names in our most recently completed top names cohort, the July 30th one.
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