I guess the market can’t do dick without data. This is so boring.
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.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Good morning, everyone. Not to dwell on my personal habits, but while I normally am up and about by 5 a.m., and sometimes much earlier, today for some reason I got up at 6:10 a.m., which is Shameless Bum level for me. As such, I’m going to keep this post very brief.
In the face of yesterday’s vicious rally, I did wimp out to some degree, easing back from 34 to 28 positions. I will note, however, I noticed some of you did a full 180 degree flip, dumping all shorts and going completely long. So at least I’ve got that going for me, as Carl from Caddyshack might say, because a large portion of yesterday’s rally has been blown to smithereens.
HDMI Has a New Meaning
This has been a dynamite year for charting and trading, with one gargantuan exception, which is THIS grotesque anomaly:
Those Two Wretched Gifts
Having gone through two weeks like the last two weeks, I’m in a very reflective mood, so I wanted to talk about………..THIS monstrosity:
The Purple Pill
“You take the blue pill… the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill… you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” -Morpheus
A ‘blended’ orientation to markets and life…
I took a red pill, dropped into a rabbit hole and entered Wonderland in 2003 and lived down that hole for 2 years before I decided, ‘eh… not for me’. Paranoia 24/7 while trying to raise kids and keep a healthy marriage was not the way to go (though positives like an understanding of the value of gold, real gold, alternative heating sources (wood stoves), a generator and the means for the physical protection of my family came out of that phase.
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