I don’t blame ayone for being nervous about yet another bounce. Five years of relentless conditioning can do that to a person. For me, one stock that illustrates nicely why I’m hanging tough and, on the whole, merely tightening up stop prices, is WPRT. It was a fantastic topping pattern, and once it got cookin’, it got cookin’……. (more…)
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.
Another Look At October’s Tesla Hedge
A Couple Of Interesting Months For Tesla Shareholders
It’s been a couple of months since I posted a hedge on Tesla (TSLA) (“Five-Star Safety For Tesla Longs“), about a month and a half since Tim presciently called a top in the stock (“The Telsa Top“), and about a month since we last looked at that Tesla hedge (“Cushioning The Blow For Tesla Longs“). In this post, I’ll recap that hedge and update how that hedge has reacted since. (more…)
Another Ominous Chart
Another Ominous Chart
On Twitter recently, macro trader “Dividend Master” shared this ominous chart of NYSE margin debt, noting that previous spikes coincided with the end of last secular bull market, in March, 2000, and preceded the end of the previous cyclical bull market by a few months in 2007. (more…)
Cave-In Protection For Gold Mining Longs
Two Years Of Gold Bugs Getting Burned
In an article last week (“Gold: A Sucker’s Paradise“), ETFguide editor Ron DeLegge noted the illustrious list of hedge fund managers who have gotten burned over the last two years being long gold and related securities such as the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD). One hedge fund manager who’s been on the right side of the gold trade has been our host Tim, who mentioned on Tuesday that GLD was his largest short position (“Repeating My Target for GLD“). (more…)
Protection Against Getting {Colorful Phrase Redacted}
(Note from Tim: The original title of the post was “Protection Against Getting Annaly Raped” which, given the stock’s name, was kind of amusing……….but things are, ummm, a little touchy lately, so I thought I’d dial it back a notch!) (more…)
