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.
If I Only Had a Brain
Here’s an interesting tidbit I never knew existed: in The Wizard of Oz (which I suppose 99% of you have seen), the scene in which Dorothy meets the Scarecrow is much, much longer in the original cut. It’s a shame that all this hard work hit the cutting room floor for the final edition. Here, then, in all its glory, is the scene as it was meant to be seen:
This Is The Chart You Need To Show Your Children And Grandchildren
Yogi Berra was quoted as saying that “it’s tough making predictions, especially about the future.”
However, there are times when one is able to at least obtain a probabilistic reading about the future, based upon an understanding of mass human sentiment and human psychology.
In fact, back in the 1940’s, an accountant named Ralph Nelson Elliott identified behavioral patterns within the stock market which represented the larger collective behavioral patterns of society en masse. And, in 1940, Elliott publicly tied the movements of human behavior to the natural law represented through Fibonacci mathematics.
(more…)Ten Interesting Chinese Stocks
Roughly shown from weaker to stronger……….and, as always, click on any chart for a huge version.
