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.
Doc Copper
I saw an offhanded comment from TNR about shorting copper. I hadn’t looked at /HG in ages, but I am inclined to agree!
Surgical Strike
I have thirty bearish positions in my main portfolio. I’d like to feature one of them, Intuitive Surgical, in this post. Even with the diminishment in price this year, this sucker still is sporting a P/E of 70, and the topping pattern seems as plain as day. I have March 17th $300 puts (which is awfully deep in the money, I realize).
A Whimper, Not a Bang
Welcome to the last trading day of 2022, everyone. As I wrote to our premium members yesterday, the massive run-up in equities offered the risk of “snookering” people into buying, but ” is going to melt like a freshly-fallen snow in the sunshine.” Sure, we may rip higher on Tuesday (the first trading day of 2023, when people will be at their most optimistic) but my point still stands. The “Santa Claus Rally” of 2022 has been a pathetic death watch……….
Best Posts of 2022 (3 of 6)
Preface to All Six Segments: At the end of each year, I take hours to go through the thousands of posts from the year to gather together what I consider the very best of them. I urge you to read them, since these are the best-of-the-best, and frankly I’m surprised not only how excellent they are but how amazing the predictions turned out to be. Slope truly is the greatest undiscovered gem on the Internet, and I’m glad you’re here to make it possible. Click on any title to read the accompanying post (those marked PREMIUM remain accessible strictly to Gold and Platinum members, God bless ’em).
- Ye of Little Faith – Correlating Slope’s subscription numbers with the equity market.
- PREMIUM: The Truculent Seven – Jim Cramer recommended seven stocks. Six bombed. Tesla did all right. Sort of. Actually, now Tesla sucks too, so he’s 7 for 7 in the failure department.
- Half a Billion Dollar Loss? Ack!!! – Legendary investor Bill Ackman gets blown up by Netflix.
- A Seller’s Market – Our purchase of real estate in North Carolina at the top of the market.
- Breaking Away – A brilliant deconstruction, if I may say so, of 1980s movie formulae.
- Breeding Ground – Why San Francisco has become a poo-infested enemy of business.
- Fear – A seriously creepy experience in a crime-infested city.
- Seriously, People……… – Near the peak of one of the year’s counter-trend rallies, I call for an imminent fall. This was spot-on.
