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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.
20 Years Long. 20 Feet Tall.
This is fascinating, but I’m going to put it beneath the “More” element since it’s insanely big.
(more…)Sum To Consider
Taking a tidy sum from the markets is our goal.
Talking recently with a longtime Sloper, he commented, “It’s just a trade to make a living. To get some.”
That’s what we’re here to do: Get some.
There are hundreds of ways, different strategies, to try and extract money from the markets. Have it Your way. The best strategy is the one you’ve determined for yourself. Do that.
Hard to do perhaps, but if you are able to see your way clear to remove any bias, outside influence, even news, Do That. Instructive words are, Only Price Pays.
In the spirit of All-That-Matters-Is Support-and-Resistance, these charts are offered in the hope that they help you get sum.
A Clean Clear Slope (by Ruffpup)
I saw this sign in a diner Friday night while watching an new series called Alaskan Daily (with Hillary Swank). I found it appropriate for SOH, as well as the Alaskan bear image in the foreground.
(more…)Remain/In/Light
She didn’t have to say a word.
When she saw me walk into the library, the beautiful girl hadn’t seen me in over a year, and I can never know what she was thinking when she recognized me heading toward the back of the library, unaware of her presence. An understandable impulse would have been to have said nothing, since we broke up – – if such a term could be used for children so young – – earlier. But she decided to call my name out anyway, taking the chance that I might be bitter about what happened.
I wasn’t. I had always adored her far too much for such a feeling to exist.
And so here we are. Nearly forty years later. A house. Kids. Chickens. The whole bit. History was changed with one impulse, and almost certainly changed for the better. Somewhere in the ripples of human history, the pebble she threw in the water that day sent waves of change throughout many lives – – tens of thousands, at least – – in ways big and small, most of them unknowable. But that’s the power of one decision.
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