I’ll probably make this my last triptik-type post. After all, you didn’t come here to look at home movies. But I did want to comment on this idyllic scene from where I stayed:
Beach Tales
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.
Free Money! (Sort Of)
You may not know this, but having surveyed the readers of Slope, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the most popular brokerage among them is none other than tastytrade – – which has a special place in my heart for obvious reasons.
The last time I saw Tom Sosnoff in person, he was telling me about this new promotion they were going to run, which essentially would let a person play with $5,000 of virtual money in a trading account and, if they manage to make $250 profit in two days, they’d actually get that money for real. In other words, you could lose the entire $5,000, and you actually wouldn’t lose anything, but if you managed to make $250 or more in two days, you’d actually get that cash (zero risk, all reward).
(more…)Snap Judgments
Earlier this week, I made an offhand remark in the comments section about something which happened to me at the airport. I thought I’d share it more thoroughly here, accompanied by some thoughts on the topic. So, first, the story.
My family was already in Phuket, Thailand, but I needed to take one of my children back up to Bangkok in order for her to join an elephant conservation program to be held in the rural north. Thus, we had a car take the two of us to the Phuket International Airport for the 70 minute flight to Bangkok. The flight was at 10 a.m.
(more…)Market Battle Fatigue: China Versus USA
There have been numerous reports of an economic slowdown (and even contraction in some sectors) in China, one of which describes those in detail at ZeroHedge. While some of China’s difficulties may have been exacerbated by a fairly recent trade war with the U.S., it certainly didn’t start them…other factors were already in play and bear responsibility for its inception, as explained therein.
(more…)Amazon’s Prime Day Earnings Impact (by Moneymiser21)
While you’re busy this weekend searching through the dearth of deals ahead of Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale…
There’s a reason for you to consider one trade in particular at the close of trading on Prime Day itself.
Flashback to 2015. Amazon turned 20.
Having left its troublesome teenage years… Bezos and friends wanted a way to “celebrate” customers who pay for a Prime membership.
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