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.

Magellan or Drake?

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It seems hard to believe, but we’ll be celebrating Slope’s 16th birthday in just a few months. In advance of that, me team and I are focusing on infrastructure improvements. In the midst of doing so, I’m looking to improve the navigation of Slope to make sure as many people know of all the helpful tools and features available to them here. With so much on the site, it’s easy for things to become forgotten.

I made an attempt toward this goal earlier this year, by making some pages specific to kinds of user. There’s a home page for equity traders. There’s a home page for options traders. And, of course, there are the home pages for the different levels of service, like Sloper, Gold, and so forth. But none of these are going to win any international design awards.

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Dash for Cash

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This market has gone full-blown late-1999. I was there. remember. And it was JUST like this.

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So basically you’ve got a company which:

  1. Has grown wildly thanks to the lockdown;
  2. Will lose many customers once people are allowed to get out of their goddamned houses and go eat out again, which they are dying to do;
  3. Is losings hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
  4. Is already facing political backlash as state houses CAP how much these services are permitted to charge.

People never learn. Never. Except the investment bankers, who get to sell millions of shares of stocks for twice what they paid to have it.