You may have noticed a new critter on my beloved site:

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.
Welcome back from the long weekend. Good Lord, I can’t stand those things. And don’t even get me started on how I’m going to be flipping out on Juneteenth. Having two three-day weekends in just a few weeks time is, to me, positively revolting. I suppose I should set aside my hatred of holidays and focus on the fact that at least we get to trade between now and Memorial Day. Sheesh, people can be lazy.
Anyway.
My screens have a goodly amount of red on them, which is a handsome start to the week. The high-fiving, back-slapping, and tongue-sucking the bulls were engaged in after the jobs report has been blown to smithereens. Here we see the /NQ, augmented with an arrow showing the elation they were (briefly) sharing at the jobs report.
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