Let’s start off with an image of the Stanford Shopping Center in the before-time: nothing but blue sky, new buildings, and lots of people:
Potemkin Shopping Center
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.
The Unspoken Pain
It’s an odd thing. Many people write to me. A surprising number of them tell me of their troubles, some of which are sweeping. Trading troubles. Spouse troubles. Do I seem empathic? Perhaps. I should take it as a compliment. Or maybe on bad hair days, I resemble Ann Landers, which compels strangers to write Anyway, I am reminded of this quote we have all heard:
Why Crypto is Better
OK, confession time. I’ll admit it. I finally bought crypto last week. Never did it before until then. I bought Ethereum ($ETH).
Why didn’t I say anything? I suppose a superstitious belief that the millisecond after I said anything, it was go plunging to $0. But a bullish base is a bullish base, and it’s not accident that I’ve been marveling at the quality of the pattern. But there’s more to it than that.
Chinese Long Beans
I went through the Slope Lists and decided to thumb through the Chinese stocks (which are available for trading on U.S. exchanges). Below are the charts that looked interesting on the long side – – some of them established winners, and others newer opportunities. The ticker is beneath each chart.
