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.

Basket Case

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Greetings from Orange County; specifically, from Gate 18 at the John Wayne Airport. I have just completed a day watching one of my beloved children graduate, and I’m waiting to go home to my trio of dogs who are surely wondering where I’ve been all day.

The world-famous “Tim travels=markets plunge” folklore is still batting 1,000. Some here may recall that the last experiment we did in this respect, my wife and daughter were traveling, and we all wanted to see if this mystical power applied to family members or just me. It was quite clearly shown that, regrettably, I and only I possess this supernatural and as-yet unexplained potency. Perhaps it’s associated with abnormally large genitalia. The jury is still out.

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Skank in the Tank

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Well, my 100% gains in Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) puts are about to become over 200% gains.

Long-time readers know that for many weeks, I’ve been hyping the oversexualized ANF as a great short, since it has historically fallen hard from its overvalued prices to the depths of Sumerian darkness. In recent months, my x-ray vision spotted a descending channel that I’ve never seen mentioned anywhere else.

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