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.

It Is Accomplished

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Since today is the most important day of the Christian calendar, I thought I’d share a snippet from my first novel, Solid State, in which I offer some of my own perspective about religion. This is in the final chapter of the book, and the conversation is between the ostensible bad guy of the story and an elderly man he has met during his travels. It takes place in a seedy bar in the middle of the day.

Mac turned to his companion and said, “Kyle, I want to thank you again for helping me out. I must have been out there a full half hour, and not a soul even checked on me. Cars, mostly. They whizzed right by. Bicycles too! It’s like nobody even cared.”

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Paperback Writer

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In the few days since my novel Solid State was published, I have been very pleased at the reviews tumbling in, although I get very uneasy reading nice things about my work (which I guess proves I’m English after all). Here are some snippets:

Tim’s uncanny, broad, awareness of what is happening all around us, on a daily basis; combined with his grasp of history, brings a powerful message via this, his first novel.

Lumen Lux

Fantastic! A well structured ride that keeps giving. It’s refreshing to have smart action back in vogue. I hope this is just the beginning of his fiction writing.

J. Martin

This is a must read for any fan of financial markets, macro economics, and geo-political developments. Tim certainly knows his history, and he is a tremendous chartist, superb trader, and now successful novelist!

Mike P.

They sold out of the hardcover on the day it came out, but there are still paperbacks available (and obviously they’ll replenish the hardcover soon). Here is the link to the Amazon page.

For those of you who are not subscribers yet, I’ve got a very special offer: if you sign up for the Gold package, I will send you an autographed copy of the hardcover book (since I still have some!). Hell, you could even cancel after a month, and you’ve only paid the retail price for the book and got your membership for free! (Of course, I hope you’ll see enough value to stay put for a while).

If you’d like to do this, click here to sign up for Gold, and drop me an email to tell me where you’d like me to send you a signed hardcover copy of my book. Thanks!

Eighteen Years Old & Newly Born

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Today is a doubly special day.

For one thing, today is Slope of Hope’s 18th birthday. Every year on March 29th, I’ve written up some kind of “happy birthday” message to celebrate yet another annum in Slope’s long and storied history. It seems hard to believe that, were Slope a person, it would now be old enough to vote and have consensual sex. Let us all take a moment of gratitude that Slope is, in fact, an abstraction and incapable of doing either of those things. Sort of like its creator.

Some things never change, huh?
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The Joy of Charting Returns!

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A few years ago, i wrote a book called Joy of Charting, which was a combination introduction to technical analysis as well as a guide to SlopeCharts.

It was originally just an eBook, but I’ve updated it and printed it up as a good-looking 234 page honest-to-God printed book which I am giving away free to anyone who signs up for any of Slope’s paid memberships.

Printing the book and shipping to you is something I’ll pay for – – all you need to do is sign up for a package (even the humble Bronze monthly!) and tell me where you’d like me to ship it, and you’ll have it in a couple of days! Click here to choose your package, and the book is yours!