It’s happening………..

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.
I’ve probably done a dozen posts about shorting Brazil (via EWZ) just over the past month. I went into a large very short-term position yesterday with October puts (arrow marks entry) and while I seemed to have great luck at first (red box) I was shocked when things reversed temporarily (green box).

Those of you who use SlopeCharts are familiar with the tool palette in the lower-left corner, which provides direcetly access to sixteen different drawing objects:

There are two problems with this: one, it doesn’t have enough room to fit all our current tools, and two, it dissuades me from adding more drawing tools since we’re already out of room! We have solved both of these problems, and the solution is found with the icon in the lower-right of the tool palette, which is the new Customize function.
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Barely two weeks ago when Bitcoin was trading at $53K I got a few messages from people telling me they should have bought the dip and of course now they had a bad case of FOMO-21.
As I head home on this one final plane ride, I’ll sign off with a chart of what’s happening right now in the natural gas futures:
