Most of you know I’m a bit of a Bob Ross freak. I listen to the man every single trading day. I’ve shared this routine before, but I must again, but only because it is so true. It’s a favorite Patton Oswalt routine of mine:
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.
A Decent Little Start
I’ve only been learning my tastyworks platform for a couple of days, and I’m already up nicely. I deliberately started with a minuscule account, just to be super safe, and I have only deployed a portion of this already-small balance. All the same, I’m up about 18% in just a couple of days, so this is encouraging!
Of course, this is only going to feed my burgeoning interest in moving Slope more and more into options trading!
(more…)Double Up, Double Down
After yesterday’s absolutely comic session, I am in “ready for anything” mode this week. (And when I refer to yesterday, I am referring to, among other things, the market exploding higher when the Chinese delegation literally announced that they were willing to agree to the anything that both sides agreed on.).
Thus, I went to sleep last night when the ES was up double digits. And now, having awoken to a new day, it is down double digits, since the nauseatingly I-am-so-sick-of-hearing-about-it-for-two-years Trade Talk Optimism has yet again flipped to Trade Talk Pessimism.
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