I mentioned in yesterday’s Pre-ETF Stroll post regarding EWZ: “Probably the most bearish of all of these charts is this one, which has an exceptionally-clean horizontal that has been tested before“
Those Two
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.
T-Day
There are hundreds of companies left to report earnings, but for the most part, today is where it all ends. The “Big Four” of tech all report after the close. They are (including links to their Slope Super Summary page):
- Apple, market cap over $1.6 trillion;
- Amazon, market cap over $1.5 trillion;
- Facebook, market cap 666 billion (of course);
- Google AKA Alphabet, 1 trillion
Since I’m so obsessed with gold, here’s a fun fact: the four companies above, none of which existed 45 years ago, are collectively worth about $10 trillion. The entire gold in the world, including unmined reserves, is only worth about twice that much. In addition, that entirety of known gold, if formed into a cube, would only be 21 meters on each side. Pretty amazing, no?
In any case, here are the charts of the Big Four:
(more…)Nerd Rock
OK, folks, I’m going to call it a day. I still wouldn’t mind some more testers for our paper trading system, so please read this post if you didn’t already. Anyway, I’ve got music on my mind since learning the bass guitar has become the favorite part of my day now. Anyway, a favorite of mine from the best nerd rock group ever.
King Rory
This was a double-win for me: I love these songs from Hamilton (and this is rare, live, sneaked-in footage) and Rory O’Malley is someone I managed to see live in the original cast of Book of Mormon. Enjoy……….
Paper Traders Wanted
The rapid pace of new products and improvements has recently slowed for one simple reason: I am putting all of our efforts into trading integration, so that being on Slope is going to be a one-stop shop for your entire trading life.
As an important step to that, we are building out paper trading. I am looking for smart, dedicated testers who know a lot about options trading to help us test this. If you’d like to participate, please drop me an email. We could use your help!
