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.

To Arms, Vegans!

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Samuel Bankman-Fried’s staggering fraud has besmirched a great many things, including so-called Effective Altruism as well as the vegan “movement”. SBF managed to acquired a huge gut and man-boobs eating non-animal products, and although I doubt that is directly related to the persistent demise of the hippie-dippy vegan public securities out there, it can’t help………….

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From Diamond to Fish

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Good morning, everyone. Equity futures are up a little this morning, about half a percentage point as I’m typing this. It’s fascinating to me how the /ES has been steadfastly climbing along the underside of the lower right trendline of our diamond pattern. Indeed, Jesus has performed a miracle here, because he has turned a Diamond into a Fish (well, let’s be classical about it – – the shape is the fabled Ichthys pattern, which we’ve seen on rare occasions throughout the years). Clearly the “Thanksgiving week is always bullish” crowd is keeping things lofty.

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