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.

SIMO Solo

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A company called Silicon Motion Technology (ticker SIMO) enjoyed an explosive move higher from late May to late June. That entire move has been unwound, illustrating just how fraught with risk this market continues to be for the bulls. The cessation of the whole AI lunacy will eventually reach the likes of even Nvidia, but it’s going to start with the junk first.

Careful What You Wish For

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All through 2022, one of the most hackneyed suggestions from all corners of the web was how someone should make an “Inverse Cramer Fund“. It was perceived as a guaranteed money winner.

Well, someone finally DID make such a fund, and you know precisely what happened: it was launched at pretty much the worst possible moment, and it’s been just withering away ever since.

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