I have been spending a lot of time on the phone lately dealing with insurance companies (don’t even get me started……….) Because of this, I’ve become a certified expert in their hold music and, more importantly, the messages they utter while a person is on hold. There are three specific messages I could really do without: (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.
Swing Trading Watch-List: FNF, RKT, RPTP, SLB, TOL
Wonderman!
In my constant quest to introduce Slopers to long-forgotten cultural artifacts, I present to you the only known episodes of Wonderman:
Vornado Bullish Breakout
Who would have thought a few years ago that real estate would once again be such a king, but it seems to be the case. One look at the ultrabearish-on-real-estate symbol SRS will put a chill through your spine, since it has fallen on a split-adjusted basis from $4,100 to, um, nineteen bucks. One particularly good-looking chart in this sector is shown below:

Ripper
Instead of a retracement yesterday there was another face-ripper trend day that blew through all of the resistance levels I was looking at yesterday morning on SPX. I looked again at what I wrote on my weekend post about the very bullish history of the weekly candle we saw last week: (more…)

