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.

Intermission Day

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Stan was suggesting in his post market video last night that today might be pretty quiet, and so it was. Lovely two way day for intraday trades and I had a very enjoyable trading day myself calling the move up and then the fail in the final hours, but nothing much happened from a swing trader perspective apart from compression for the next move, in a direction still to be determined.

Nothing of any significance happened on the SPX daily chart. SPX daily chart:

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Buying the Farm

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I wanted to follow up about my Sharing in Action post. In the post, I gave a real-life example of how the Publish/Share feature in SlopeCharts can help one uncover new ideas.  Specifically, a Sloper named DoubleNaughtSPY had a watchlist with some interesting symbols I had never followed, including one i particular that caught my eye, FARM. Thus, I shorted 700 shares of it at the point where the arrow is marked.

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This Made My Day

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I have made no secret of my disdain for Theranos and Elizabeth “Crazy Eyes” Holmes by way of these six past posts. While driving through town, I passed by the gorgeous and expensive Theranos building, and  yesterday I decided to swing into the parking lot. I was curious, because the one and only other time I had been there, it was totally empty, which I found bizarre for a weekday. But I swung into again and…………

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