Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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Tim Schnook

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Apple is the king of kings, and host of hosts, when it comes to equities. Break this stupid thing, and the whole world falls apart. This channel is terribly important. Take careful note of the series of lower highs WITHIN the confines of the ascending channel. The notion of the market making all time highs from these levels seems, to me, unlikely. It’s all up to Apple. It is the ultimo hombre.

Dialing Up the Censorship

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Forget the charts. Forget the market. Set aside the P & L. Let’s talk about censorship.

In my experience as the proprietor of this little corner of the web, I have found there are about three levels of push-back that I receive.

The first, rarest level is from Slopers themselves. This is an extremely liberal (in the classic sense) and tolerant bunch. It’s a pretty free-wheeling place here on Slope. As such, if there is ever a time when I get scolded by folks here, I know I’ve seriously crossed the line.

I actually think it’s only happened once, which is when I – – heaven help me – – urinated on a giant poster of Janet Yellen and posted the video. For some peculiar reason, a few people found this in bad taste, and I quickly deleted the post. In the nearly 17 years of Slope’s existence, I think that’s the only time that I’ve censored myself, after I realized that, OK, yeah, I guess there ARE limits. (Hey, it could have been worse.)

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