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.

Surfing Those Waves

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I have no idea why, but everything is going fantastic today. I covered shorts this morning at great prices. Went long (briefly…….twice), both instances profitable. Mostly, as I've said, I'm just entering brand-new stops across the board. I've been stopped out of nothing). The key thing is to stay two "-ble" words – – humble and nimble. Because when one is doing really well, it's a fantastic time to royally screw up.

SOH Readers and Everyone Else

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One of my favorite Slope readers sent me this fascinating article about the "Two Americas" – literate and not – here's a snippet:

There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high
school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at
a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation's
population is illiterate or barely literate. And their numbers are
growing by an estimated 2 million a year. But even those who are
supposedly literate retreat in huge numbers into this image-based
existence. A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of
college graduates, never read a book after they finish school. Eighty
percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a
book.