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.
Low Energy
On this lazy weekend, I thumbed through all the components of energy fund symbol XLE and plucked out those stocks which seemed particularly poised for possible punishment.
Money Maps
I was driving one of my kids over to a friend’s house the other day. The destination was Atherton, which is adjacent to Palo Alto and a very rich town. The houses tend to be 10, 15, 20 million dollars, or much more, and the lots are vastly larger than those in neighboring communities.
As I was driving there, what was striking to me was the map on my display. Where I was driving, the streets were very far apart, whereas just on the other side of a particular road (the proverbial “wrong side of the tracks“) the density was far greater. Here is what I mean:
The Traitorous Eight
On Friday, the NASDAQ reached a level just a fraction of a percent from its highest point in human history. In spite of that, my 57 shorts – God love ’em – are in the green, and I offer below the eight which are doing the best so far during this dreadful and totally fake “market” of ours:
