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.
Permafrost
Long-time readers know how fond I am of metaphors and analogs. I have one to offer today, and it has to do with permafrost.

Nine Lives
My options portfolio has nine directionally-bearish positions. Eight of them are, relatively speaking, quite conservative: all in the money and all with many months left. Only one, the QQQ, is a wild card.
