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 Inside Scoop
This is kind of amusing/interesting. One of the hottest meme stocks around, Palantir, was principally funded by Peter Thiel. He dumped about 25 million shares on September 30 and October 1st, where the arrow is marked. As you can see, the stock was worth three times that much just the month following (in other words, half a billion dollars of profits later). He’s still got billions of bucks, but it just goes to show one shouldn’t read too much into insider sales information.
Watts
I recently stumbled upon a recording of a man, Alan Watts, who, from what I gather, was a very popular British philosopher back in the 1960s. His spoken recordings are widely-respected to this very day. I am quite captivated by the man, and I wanted to share this tidbit:
Commodity Exhaustion
I would like to humbly propose that this is all she’s got.
Superstars
I went through my watch list of relatively young stocks, and there are some which stand out as particularly bullish patterns………
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