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.

This Time For Sure (Part 1 of 4)

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Preface to All Four Parts: I am presently short 74 different positions. I actually intended to be short 80 positions, but the market closed on Friday faster than I could finish the orders. I am showing all 74 charts across four posts this weekend, but unlike the past, this isn’t a “half for everyone, half for PLUS only” deal. From now on, PLUS members are going to get the vast majority of the charts. Non-paying readers will get a sampling of the charts, and PLUS members will get the majority.

These are all ‘live” positions, and recently they have been doing a yeoman’s job of outperforming the market. Click on any thumbnail for a big version, and you can scroll left and right through the gallery. I have tried to zoom in (when appropriate) on the portion of the chart I believe is most germane and illuminating to readers. So if you’re not a subscriber yet, please read the reasons for being one.

The Bulls Drop Their Balls

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Earlier this week, I wrote a despairing post called Annihilation Nearly Complete. In it, I essentially said the bears were 99.9999% finished off, and that there was almost no hope left. (Oddly – – perhaps even schizophrenically – – I also did a post for PLUS users suggesting EWZ, EEM, and RSX as good short ideas, which turned out to be three great trades almost to the millisecond I posted it).

Putting up such an “all hope is lost” post is a true rarity for me. Indeed, it reminds me of October 2007. I actually managed to scrape up this fragment from the Internet archive which shows what I was writing back then; sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

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