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.
The Devil’s in the Retails
Of my seventy-five existing short positions, thirteen of them are retail-related. This is definitely one of my favorite sectors right now, so much so that I also own put options (January $43) against the retail fund XRT. Here are seven of them, zoomed in to interesting recent activity:
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Mexico Erosion Continues
Via the symbol EWW, we can see how badly Mexico has lagged the rest of the new-highs-every-day world of equities………
TBT & Yield Continuing to Look Higher
By Mike Paulenoff, MPTrader.com
Ahead of this past Friday’s jobs report, we noted to subscribers that our technical set-ups in both the ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT) ETF and 10 year Treasury Yield anticipated a positive reaction to the employment data.