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.

Grind, Grind, and Grind Some More

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Your math formula of the day is Thursday=Wednesday.

It was honestly identical. Red futures in the morning. Red-hot inflation report. Futures sink. Then, half an hour into the trading day, it was straight-up from there. NQ ended the day bright green. All the same, my portfolio gained value yesterday and today, so blow me, P.T.B.

One flicker of hope is that the /ES closed precisely at its Fibonacci (and on the correct side, which is to say, beneath it).

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Meme Twins

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Since I have no buying power left, and I refuse to tempt fate by pouring more cash into my account and expanding my risk, I’ve been – – what else? – – looking at charts.

As I was doing so, I thought I was looking at GME (as discussed earlier today) but it turns out I was looking at AMC, the effectively-bankrupt theatre chain which, like Gamestop, has become a meme stock. Below is the lifetime comparison of these two. Remarkable, isn’t it? They’re like twins!