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.

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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