Nick Saban’s Alabama football automaton. Floyd Mayweather. Millions of words have been used to explain, laud, and understand both. However only one is needed. Consistent. Huh? Consistent? I’m choosing one of the most boring words in the English language to encapsulate two of the most winning institutions in sports history? Yes, 100% yes. Sit down and watch an Alabama game or a Mayweather fight. Know how many jaw dropping highlights you’ll see? Zero. Now watch lesser teams or undercard fighters. Highlight after highlight. For a trader the lesson is almost too large to put into words but I shall try. As for the pictures; I’ve illustrated this post with photos of our two subjects PREPARING. Vastly more important than end result evidence. (more…)
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.
This I Gotta See
I confess to be really enjoying my NetFlix account (although how they can provide me so much content for $7.99 per month, while those jackasses at Comcast charge triple-digits, is beyond me). This just showed up in my email inbox: (more…)
Feckless Cook Continues to Induce Apple Suckitude
Community Health Gap Fill
Community Health Systems, shown below, is approaching its gap at $42.80 and, I believe, offers a good risk/reward ratio on the short side. (more…)
The Not Market
The psychosis of this market has reached new heights. It’s just astonishing to me. For four years 
now, we have eased ourselves into the warm bathtub of central planning and multi-trillion dollar make-the-rich-richer intervention. Everyone has grown so accustomed to it that it seems totally normal now.
This weekend has launched a new level of the bull-ghey, as we have our second example this month of the market rallying not on something that happened, but on something that didn’t. I did a post on September 3 commenting on how our not bombing Syria was the reason for the market’s rally. Today most equity indexes made their highest levels in the entirety of human history based on one flatullent, fatuous man not throwing his hat (I thought of something funnier, but it would be politically incorrect) into the ring for the Fed chairmanship. (more…)
