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.

Careful What You Wish For

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All through 2022, one of the most hackneyed suggestions from all corners of the web was how someone should make an “Inverse Cramer Fund“. It was perceived as a guaranteed money winner.

Well, someone finally DID make such a fund, and you know precisely what happened: it was launched at pretty much the worst possible moment, and it’s been just withering away ever since.

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Cathie’s Clown

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The media won’t shut up about The Return of Cathie Wood, on the heels of her disastrous 2022 in ARKK. Before anyone decides to erect a monument to this over-hyped money manager, take a glance at ARKK. shown below in grey, versus the plain old QQQ (in blue) and you’ll see that, well, yeah, her fund is climbing (since it can’t help but do so) but it’s not exactly jaw-dropping.