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.
Looking Back
Compared to yesterday, things are stone-cold quiet, so I thought I'd share a Slope tip with you.
On the right column, scroll down and you'll see a list of symbols that have been referenced in this blog. It shows the top 10, and you can click on the All link to see the long, long list of various symbols referenced. You can click on any given symbol to see all the prior posts where there are charts of that symbol.
I used this feature this morning to check out my recent TBT commentary. As a reminder, you can click the "Present" tab on older charts to see what has happened to the security since it was originally posted. In the example below, TBT moved lower subsequent to the posting.
You can learn a bit more about tags on Slope here.
Gold Stop-Outs
I have gotten bumped out of a number of gold shorts, including AUY, AU, GDX, and GLD.
Gold is definitely showing more strength than I anticipated. But, as Dionne Warwick once sang: "That's what stops are for…….."
Barry and S&P
Good morning, everyone,
Barry Ritholtz is the author of the popular Big Picture blog and is a friend of Slope. (He was, at one point, getting heavily Ned-trolled, and he gave me some good pointers on how to nuke the guy; one look at this picture, and you can see Barry isn't the guy of guy who want to mess with!)
Barry did a post last night about how his most recent book got smacked down in what strikes me as an act of corporate censorship. The reason? His forthcoming title was critical of the S&P rating agency, and – surprise! – McGraw Hill is part of the same corporate family. So even though he had contractual rights to the final edit of the book, they squished it.
I imagine sales of the book, when it does come out from a different publisher, will be about ten times bigger than if this interesting little incident hadn't happened. Good luck, Barry!
