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.

Feels So Good

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Well, the nauseating, feckless milksops known as equity bulls are getting burned, and God knows no one deserves it more. What’s particularly galling is that the narcissistic Cathie Wood declared stocks in “deep value territory” this weekend, even though the S&P 500 was at the most overpriced level in human history on goddamned Thursday. So, yeah, Cathie, I think those neck cream vapors are beginning to affect your already spurious thinking.

I’m delighted to report that the SPY has broken its lower trendline. It’s over folks. Jerome Powell is doomed, as are his mewing, sycophantic followers.

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What a Silly Quant

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Welcome to Christmas Week, everyone, as the shortened trading week begins.

Well, following the preposterous lifetime high established by the ES only a few trading goes ago, the equity markets have continued to weaken, prompted most recently, and ostensibly, by the (thankful) failure of the idiotic Waste More Money program that the Feds were going to launch. It’s pretty sad when the biggest achievement of the government is when they DON’T do something.

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