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…)Retail Relaxation
With the GME insanity of the past week, it absolutely played hell with the retail fund symbol XRT. The price had been within the pattern since last March until it burst above resistance. With GME’s crash, XRT is working its way back to the trendline, which is now serving as support.

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.
(more…)Funds That Matter
Please note the companion piece for Gold and Diamond members was published on Friday night here. I wanted to talk about a few more ETFs of import.
My biggest put position is energy, by way of XLE. These are June puts, and I’m hanging on as long as I possibly can.

