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.
Wherein I shamelessly urge people to join Slope+, since I am certainly going to be raising the price (permanently) in the near future. Here’s what I wrote on May 16th in an exclusive Slope+ post:
It didn’t take long, and we’re already in $37.xx land – – not bad, not bad! So c’mon and give Slope+ a try. Use coupon code mayday for a free month, since that coupon will die at the end of this week! I’ve tinted in green the point where I issued the “short XLU” post.
In spite of a bargain-basement price/earnings ratio of about 650, LinkedIn still seems richly-valued. Most important to me as a chartest (I throw in the fundamentals only to be provocative), the price is resting on a pretty flimsy shelf of support right now which, if broken, could send the stock tumbling to the $130-zone. (more…)
Sometimes it just isn’t your day. I just spent an hour writing a post and selected it to copy it over to Slope of Hope when I hit the wrong key and deleted almost the whole thing irrecoverably (Editor’s Note: I feel your pain! Thank you for doing this twice!). Unusually I have to leave soon and will be out much of the day so I am going to rewrite this as a shorter post as quickly as possible. Excuse the very brief comments. (more…)
I hate to fall into the “Enumerate Your Post” trap, but my goodness, it certainly seems to work everywhere else on the web, doesn’t it? MarketWatch has latched onto this with a vengeance, with their latest schtick being “X things that Y won’t tell you”, and apparently there is no limit to vapid topics they can tackle with this formula. The most recent, pictured above, is the single most popular article on MarketWatch. Good Lord. (more…)
Well, bonds are having the kind of steadily collapsing market which makes equity bears like me envious. The ZB has been monkey-spanked all month long…….. (more…)
