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.
Veni Vidi Vici
In my premarket video on Tuesday I was looking at the setup and the historical stats and, was saying that a consolidation was likely to start the week and, then we would see what the bulls could do with the very bullish historical stats on Thursday and Friday. Well, they came, they saw, and they have conquered so far, so as it stands we now have the start of what could be a serious bullish break up on SPX.
Short term though, SPX is so stretched that the high on Friday was only three handles below the close on the daily 3sd upper band, which is a rare event, so I did what I like to do with rare events, I looked back and crunched some numbers looking at previous examples.
(more…)The Dell Years
Did you ever wonder how such a successful company as Dell Computers, with an entrenched strategic advantage, lost so badly to Apple? I’m about to give you an inside scoop. I worked for Dell from 2003-2007. This is my story from the inside.
I walked up to the front entrance of Dell Computers in Nashville, Tennessee. As I entered, I was ushered over to a side room in the lobby to sign some forms, and meet up with a small group of bright, young faces. After signing our forms, we walked to a security check point at the edge of the lobby to have our pictures taken and security badges created. Past the security check point, the lobby opened to a large dividing area that separates the two massive wings of the sales complex.
We took a left, and the scene opened up into a room of wall-to-wall rows of desks, computers, phones, and sales agents as far as the eye could see. My eyes lit up. My heart began to beat a bit quicker. I knew I could be great at this, and I wanted the chance to prove it. It was orientation day, and I was about to be unleashed on the public.
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