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 Problem with Home Runs

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I don’t really care for market opinions.

Oftentimes, they aren’t objective, just simply self-serving.

I’ve traded professionally for over 20 years and it amazes me the lack of forethought that goes into actual investment strategy. I mean, come on: Don’t boast about returns over the past three years when we’ve seen the market skyrocket to epic heights. It’s downright lazy!

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Many Lines, Much Sand

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Good morning, everybody. Well, hey, how about that, some red on the screen. What a nice way to get things going. What I wanted to explore in this post is the persistent, and crucial, horizontal lines that are laid flat in just about every important index.

In spite of my utter exasperation with the mega-rise over the past nine days, I still consider this market to be very chart-friendly and, frankly, acting As God Intended. So let’s start to survey the scene, shall we? We begin with the /ES, which approached, and then sank away from, an extraordinarily important level for any surviving bears out there.

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