Dial back the Slope clock over two months, and you will see this post called Twenty Eight Twenty Five. In the post, I marvel over the power this simple line has over the /ES:
The Magic Number
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.
Beyond Charts
I stumbled upon this remark by a tastytrade user on a public board last night about the newly-public company Beyond Meat (BYND):
The Paper Chase
I have a friend who, from what I can tell, has done quite well in this never-ending bull market we’re in. Lately she’s been mentioning to me (repeatedly) a stock I had never heard of called Shockwave Medical (symbol SWAV). It hasn’t been around that long, so there isn’t much data, but you can see it’s been on a tear lately.
Playing with Fire
The risks of chasing hot stocks can be illustrated with this morning’s Exhibit A, which is Xilinx. This is one of those company which I have no idea what it does, but it has a name like a Hollywood film would give to some made-up Silicon Valley corporation as a villain. Anyway:
Bound ‘n’ Gagged
Dear God, this market is boring. As I type this, the SPY is up eight hundredths of a single percent. If you’re bored out of your mind, you ain’t alone.
We’re range-bound. I guess there’s just nothing to inspire the market one way or the other. Not only are we in a tiny range, we’re exactly in the middle of the range, which is like a boring cake with boring icing on top.
