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: SHLD, PLD, PDCE, KERX, NQ
Two Sheds
Breaking Up
The bulls had a good day yesterday as expected and tested the daily upper bollinger band, closing effectively at the upper band. There are two main options here and the first, if this is a strong breakout, is that SPX would ride the upper band up at 5 to 7 handles per day for several days. The second is that we see some retracement here that might well retest the daily middle band, now in the 1865 area. SPX daily chart: (more…)
The “A” Team
What’s Tim going to do on a day with another lifetime high on the S&P 500? Offer up short ideas, of course! Well, that’s my choice, isn’t it? After all, I could sell into insane strength, or I could buy stocks at prices never seen before in human history, hoping there’s someone even more insane who will pay more later. I dunno. I’m going with the former. For better or worse, here are four cool short ideas, each of which share one financially-irrelevant characteristic: their tickers all start with the letter “A”. (more…)
