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.

Somethin’ in the Oven

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It has pretty much a throwaway day for me, but, ah well, there not all going to be winners. As we await for things to start rocking again, I wanted to share once more my Domino’s Pizza (DPZ) chart. The head and shoulders top is exceptionally well-formed. It could actually go as high as $340 with little consequence, but I’ve got this on a very tight leash and will get out if it crosses above $333.25:

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Has the Worm Turned?

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Apple’s business model is simple and straightforward: rely on people being so desperate to fill the aching psychic void in their lives that they regularly turn their expensive cell phone into land-fill by “upgrading” to yet another phone with some minuscule and useless marginal feature improvement that they don’t really need. It has worked for years, so much so that Apple is worth trillions, but the cycle seems to be kicking in again to the downside. Indeed, the latest risible rise didn’t even muster the strength to tag resistance. Diver down, baby.

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