Let’s get back to the basics.
The chart below is a bull market. It happens to be the S&P from the year 1995, which was an incredibly steady, smooth, ascending-all-the-time market.
My Problem with Hamburger
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.
Endurance Test
Precisely how much of this crap am I supposed to endure? Just FALL already, and DON’T look back!
Let GO!
Painless
The bear market won’t be fully kicking in until the society as a whole is completely pissed off at rich people. That hasn’t happened yet. Because, see, if it had, you would NOT be seeing this kind of nonsense.
Complete Mistrust
Normally, I’d be excited. But this hasn’t been a normal week. Although in absolutely terms I’ve been fine financially, I feel like I’ve been getting my face punched in every single day. Every day, we get totally bearish news, the market starts selling off, and then SOMEONE (I assume from D.C. and NYC Fed) bids the hell out of the market. I’ll tell you one thing – – since I’m more lightly positioned than I’ve been in an entire year, I’m going to be pissed as hell if this sell-off actually STICKS, because last night I was seriously contemplating shuttering my trading account and just developing products for a living.
