It’s late, but market action compels me to do a post. Thanks to what is apparently a massive attack from Israel against Iraq and Syria, the S&P 500 futures are collapsing:
All Holy Hell Breaks Loose
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Four-Handle??
Greetings, nighttime Slopers. I’m not sure what is compelling the market to fall at this hour, but I welcome and celebrate it. I wonder if we could actually see a 4-handle on the S&P in our lifetimes.
Five & Dime
I’m still keeping things light and mellow. I have just five short positions, by way of September in-the-money put options. These positions are as follows:
Correlated ETFs
I was looking at an article on the web about how ETFs correlated with one another, and I thought, wow, I wish I could do that myself. Then I remembered, as usual, that it was ALREADY a feature on Slope, and there are so many dozens of features crammed in here, I didn’t even remember it! Anyway, here’s the page if you want to mess around with show the correlates of any group of up to twenty symbols.
National Embarassment
What a pathetic, wasteful, corrupt little country we’ve devolved into. The US peaked in early 2000. It’s all downhill from here.
