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.
Utilitarianism
I want to emphasize, once again, how madly in love I am with my Utilities short. I am long 90 in-the-money put contracts on XLU expiring January 2019, so there’s gobs of times left. The potential on the drop Utilities could have is absolutely tantalizing.
Profiles In Courage
Shortly after we launched the new site, someone wrote to me to say they had accidentally put someone in the comments stream on Ignore and wanted to un-ignore them. I sheepishly told them that was impossible. With all the other urgent tasks we had with the new site, it just wasn’t high on the list.
I’m glad to say we’ve addressed this now. You already know how to Ignore someone: just click the Ignore button on their comment, and bang, they’ll vanish from your world. But if you want to un-ignore someone (perhaps you miss them, or you did it by accident), what you do is click on the Profile link:
