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.

Get My Debut Novel for Free

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How’s that for an enticing title? Let me explain.

My new novel, Solid State, is going to be available on Amazon on March 29, 2023. I very deliberately chose this publication date since it marks the 18th birthday of the Slope of Hope.

What I want you to do is pre-order the book on Amazon by clicking here. Let me tell you three things to compel you to do this:

  1. You do NOT get charged until the book is released and shipped to you. So you are buying it, but not paying yet.
  2. I’m going to buy the book BACK from you if you want me to (more on this in a moment) so it costs you nothing.
  3. Most important of all, pre-ordering is CRUCIAL to how Amazon presents the book on its website and stocks the book in advance. It is VASTLY more important that I promote the book now than it is after the book is released. So please get that pre-order in, since it will show Amazon there is a demand!

Now, on to the free-ness of the book. If you get it, and you don’t like it (which I hope isn’t the case…….I’m quite proud of my work) just let me know and I’ll buy it back from you. Better yet, if you love the book and write a good review on Amazon, I’ll buy it back then, too! (You can keep the book, of course). But it’ll be my way of saying thank-you for being an early reader and helping get the word out. The bottom line is I want to get pre-orders cooking! Here’s a trailer I put together to give you a taste of what it’s about………..

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Sweet Baby Tesla!

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Good God. I should just stop trading ANYTHING but Tesla. I think every single call I’ve made for the past 14 months has been dead-nuts-on accurate. The latest, which I was too stupid to believe, called for $213.15. It went to $214 and then into a hard reversal. If I had half a brain, I’d have gone ALL IN calls when the stock was about to break $100. I just can’t seem to trust my own insights! Anyway, my puts are happy (I am a total ghey boy, so they are Junes, so the rise is muted). I truly am a limp-wristed sad sack.

Breaking the Curse

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I’ll admit it. Being here in Durham, NC on the eve of the CPI gives me the willies. It was in this very room on October 13th that I witnessed the jaw-dropping reversal which took place and, as can can clearly see now, kicked off a four-month puke-fest of bullishness without nary a downtick in sight. It’s unnerving.

In spite of that, as I laid out this weekend, I’m just about fully loaded up on bearish positions, although, as always, I’ve got an ungodly amount of time on these options before expiration. In a way, tomorrow morning shouldn’t matter that much, but such traumas are hard to shake.

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