The Economist Cover
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.
Natural Gas Aflame
On a totally different topic, folks. Brace yourself. That Satanic Anti-Christ known as Jerome Hayden Powell is about to do his work. Be strong. I’ll see you on the other side.
The Three Stooges
Late in February, I penned a post called Featured Favorites Three and suggested three symbols for short-selling: MTCH, OKTA, and SAFE. Let’s just say this worked out nicely, and I daresay these will simply keep grinding lower. Another victory for SlopeCharts!
Burp!
One quirk of having so many positions is that it’s easy to miss stuff. The market has been open almost ninety minutes as I’m typing this, and only now did it dawn on me that one of my short positions, Tupperware, has thrown off a triple-digit gain on its puts with this tremendous move.
Another Knight
Fifty years ago, an American entrepreneur by the name of Knight – – Phil Knight – – started a little shoemaker called Nike. His name is all over the place at Stanford now, since he pretty much funded the business school campus. It looks like his shoes are doing all right:
