I know people are ga-ga again about social networking stocks, but I’m very sorry, the chart below is jumping up and down, screaming to be shorted. Can’t you hear the screeching?
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.
Biohazard
One of the biggest beneficiaries of the Buying Panic has been biotech (which, not long ago, was being pointed to as one of the biggest drags on the market). I think its draggy ways will soon return.

Insurance Casualities
I’m going to be traveling all day on this Good Friday to visit a business in which I invested back in 2005. The aforementioned business looked to be heading into bankruptcy in 2007, but it turned itself around, and it is thriving now. I haven’t visited them in a few years, so I’m eager to see how much they’ve grown.
Anyway, I thought I’d just put up a post of a particular sector on which I’m cheerfully bearish: insurance. One look at the likes of Aflac during the financial crisis shows how interesting things can get: (more…)
Gentle Descent
Social media stocks in general should, I think, continue their steady waterfall. Facebook reports after next Wednesday’s close, which should be as good a reason as any to accelerate the downtrend, provided we don’t break the series of lower highs I’ve tinted.

