I was going to look around to see if I could find a media article out there (complete with a TA trying to sound really important) that would be appropriate to be made fun of in our little Men Who Stare at Charts series. But then I decided to create my own chart, stare at it a little, post it and talk about it (hopefully not too self-importantly).
(more…)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.
Slim Pickings
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Slope has a very successful affiliate relationship with the folks behind TradeMachine Pro, and recently their CEO suggested a webinar specifically for Slopers. I’ve published one of their recent trade ideas below, but most importantly, please email me if you’d like to be notified of the online webinar they are going to put together (you don’t have to type any message; just click ‘Send’ since I just need your email address). Anyway, here’s their post:
Recently we wrote on The Exact Bearish Trigger in Nvidia. Today we look at the other side for Amazon.
(more…)Coming Apart
Recently I read an interview with a fellow who said the most influential book he had read was Coming Apart by Charles Murray. I immediately bought the book and am halfway through it. I wanted to write you a review of the book, then I discovered that I had already done so six years ago! So I think my brain must be “coming apart”, but I’m going to be a lazy sumbitch and just reprint the review here, because I think it’s important:
I just finished reading the best-selling Coming Apart by Charles Murray. I confess to not having heard of the book until I saw it in the store, but the cover of a champagne glass and a crumpled beer can instantly suggested to me that I was going to enjoy this new examination of the United States and its sociological disintegration of the past half-century.
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