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.
Short Workday
The title of this post might seem to be a description of my life Monday through Friday, but it’s not. It’s just a simple short idea – – the chart below, in spite of its relative lack of history as a public company, is pretty clean as a topping pattern. It’s one of my many shorts (which, God willing, will have a decent week ahead).
About that 2008 Analog
I used to be a bigger fan of analogs than I am these days, but they still intrigue me. I’ve noticed on some other sites, the notion that the start of 2016 is similar to the start of 2008 has been bandied about. Here’s the basic thrust of the argument………..
Slim’s Week
Three Months. Three Mistakes.
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Slope has, over its nearly eleven year history, garnered a reputation for honesty. I make every effort to be completely forthcoming with my thoughts about trading, even when it’s going lousy for me, as it has over the past four weeks. I think this is more helpful than trying to “spin” things as many other analysts do, making it seem like they’ve never made a single misstep. This is going to be one of those “dangeorusly honest” posts, because 2016 has been a disappointment to me so far, even though it needn’t have been so.
Although there have been hundreds of “moments”, both good and bad, so far this year, I thought it best to break down my analysis into three simple chunks, each of which represent a core error on my part. I hope that in doing so, not only can I help myself think through where I went wrong, but I may also be able to assuage some of the pain others may be experiencing who have gone through something similar. I’ve marked these “events” on the chart shown here, with the tinted areas from left to right marking each of these three zones.
