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.

Runaway Russell Epiphany

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This is an important post. At least I think it is. I was going to say it was the most important post I had ever made, but I didn’t want to oversell it.

This morning, I was looking at a long-term history of the Russell 2000 (what else does one do on a Saturday morning?) and something caught my eye. I noticed how similar price action over the past few years was to the late 1990s. (more…)

Uranus is Bleeding

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I would love to be able to say to you that God came to me in a dream last night and provided me clairvoyance as to the future of the equities market. Sadly, I did have dreams all last night, but they were – and I am not making this up – about urea. I learned recently that there is a futures market in the stuff, and I guess my subconscious found this deeply troubling, so I spent an entire night dreaming about talking with loved ones about urea. . (more…)