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.
High Probability, Low Expectations
The Gospel According to Theta
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There’s a school of thought in options trading that flips traditional investing on its head. Forget trying to guess market direction. Forget price targets, trendlines, or crystal balls. This approach says: you don’t have to be right—you just have to be the house.
(more…)Fading Canada
AMD Gets PLTR’d
The big earnings event today was AMD which, just like PLTR yesterday, produced great results and went rocketing higher. The comparison doesn’t end there, however. Not long after, the stock sank into the red, just like PLTR, although not with the same severe slump. Suffice it to say that a handsome gain has morphed into a modest loss.
Arc Light
Two red days in a row? Is that even legal? Well, before we get into that, let’s look at a couple of markets which suggest to me that we’re going to war, even though there’s no chatter about it.
Oil has completely shaken off its production news from the weekend and continues to zip higher, rendering the Sunday gap moot.
