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.

Happy Seventh Birthday, Slope!

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I wrote my first post for this blog on March 29, 2005, which was seven years ago today.

Looking back one year ago, I see that I did a pretty good post on our 6th birthday, so there's no need to cover old territory about how the blog was started and what I've learned in the time since then. Please read it (or re-read it) yourself. I'd like to strongly encourage you to do so, because what I said in that post rings even more true today than it did a year ago.

I will add this, however: the reason Slope is one of the longest-lived and most active financial blogs in the world is because of this community. Yes, I have enabled it through content and a superb homegrown comments system, but the community – – you – – constitutes the blood coursing through the veins of this body.

I am deeply grateful to you for your daily participation and interest in what goes on here, and for those many thousands of lurkers who don't think they can contribute to the comments stream, I would respectfully submit to you that you are wrong. Slopers are a friendly, smart group of traders, and you need not fear being perceived as anything but a brother (or sister!) in arms when you join the group.

So if you see a red bar in the upper-right corner of your screen, indicating you haven't signed in for a free account, please click "Create Account" in the upper right, and in about ten seconds you will be  part of the most bangin' group of traders on the planet. (Here's a quick primer). That way, we can enter our 8th year on Slope with you, rather than without you, and I'd greatly prefer that you join us for the ride.

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Blow Me!……Evil Plan 69.0 (by BDI)

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Hey TK;

Thanks so much for having invited me, and providing me with the fantastic opportunity to participate in this wonderful & engaging world you have created online. In my humble opinion, the Almighty creator thinks most highly of us, when we ourselves also use our creative capacities, adding to the mystery that is life, and you clearly have done that here.

I regret to inform you, that I have decided to move on, as I can no longer intelligently engage in this faux market.  It has gotten so bad at this point, that I simply have lost interest in something which I use to find so intriguing, and which gave me the greatest of pleasure.

I simply am unable to join in with the momo trend followers, whom I believe mistakenly confuse their trading acumen & brilliant timing, with a stock market that has simply been hijacked by the FED & TBTF banks;-) 

I fear we will all pay dearly one day soon, for this lack of dignified leadership, mature responsibility & courage, being so consistently recklessly demonstrated by those in positions of trusted authority, when they clearly should know better.

Fortunately, even with the considerable beating I have taken in Q1 of 2012, I still somehow have manged to depart quite a bit ahead since I started in the late Summer of 2008, so I can not complain too much on that score.

Again, thank you very much for letting me participate, and so generously permitting me to share my thoughts as an avid, and enthusiastic SOH guest contributor.  I would like to think that a few of my macro market observations / header posts, may have added some color & intrigue to your superior financial blog. I only hope that I have not mislead too many lurkers, with my unorthodox DOOM & BOOM Idiot Savant methodology.

I have nothing but good thought about you, and all the wonderful Slopers that you have attracted to your stimulating blog, and yes that even includes the misguided momo trend following, chart humping, price chasing, Bernanke whores;-)

All the best, and best of luck to all…………perhaps I will see you in the Fall

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BDI SOH's Idiot Savant

Making Slope Better

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0319-logoMarch 29 will mark the 7th birthday of the Slope of Hope, and as I've suggested a few times since the beginning of 2012, there are some exciting changes coming to the blog in a couple of months.

In the midst of working on those improvements, I wanted to ask you directly what are some of the things which you'd like to see here. Some ideas to get you thinking:

+ Are there some instructional/educational videos you'd like me to make and have available on the site?

+ Are there certain features in the comment system/community you wish existed?

+ What are some tools or features that would make Slope more useful to you as a trader?

You don't even necessarily have to offer up an idea of your own – – at least read the ideas below in the comments section, and if you see an idea that you agree would be a positive, please click the Like button to vote for it. This way, I can easily see from the comments stream which ideas are most appealing to Slopers.

Thanks for your help and opinions! I really appreciate them.