Nothing worth talking about news-wise until next Friday, when the monthly jobs reports hits. Otherwise….relax!
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.
The Dark Index Shows Selling
The Dark Index (DIX) is a simple metric that tells us whether investors are using dark pools to buy or sell shares of S&P 500 component stocks. When it’s high, investors are buying. When it’s low, they’re selling.
FAANG Rotation: Risk On or Risk Off for Q4?
I last wrote about the five FAANG Tech stocks at the end of June.
Since then, we’ve seen rotation in and out of these stocks, as depicted on the following four percentage gained/lost graphs of varying lengths of time…namely, Year-to-date, 2017 Q3, the month of September, and the past week, respectively.
The Two Tim Tale
I have been running an experiment with myself over the past couple of months. I really didn’t plan for this experiment. I just sort of fell into it. Now that it’s running, though, I’m quite interested to see what comes of my personal test.
The first result of this test is as follows: in the first quarter of 2017, in my regular portfolio, I lost ground. That isn’t a huge shock, since that portfolio is entirely short, is often 200% margined (or even more), and Q1 2017 had all kinds of lifetime highs on just about every major index. I had some great trades here and there, but the simple fact of the matter is that if you spent an entire quarter going short, and the market hits record highs, you are not going to make money.
Fear and Failure
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I have, over the long lifespan of Slope, mentioned some emotional scars from childhood during that period of time when it seems virtually everyone in my generation had a complete suck time: middle school. It seems that a few random verbal assaults of “fag” or “dick” can persist for decades.
