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.

MetaSymbols Are LIVE!

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I am very pleased to announce that the latest feature in SlopeCharts, which I’m calling MetaSymbols, is live and ready to use. You can read all about it here, but I’ve taken the key portions of the information and provided them in this post.

For those who don’t have a Gold account, you can get one for all of ninety-nine cents. Click here for immediate access.

For Gold and Platinum members on the Slope of Hope, SlopeCharts lets you create completely new financial instruments with the components and weighting of your choice. You can gather together as many as 100 different equity symbols (including ETFs) to represent anything you like (such as a sector or a particular portion of the market), and our servers will create the data for you and let you chart your creation.

To access this feature, choose MetaSymbols from the Tools menu of SlopeCharts.

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Buying Japan (by LZ)

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For decades, Japan was a value trap. That changed in March when the Tokyo Stock Exchange launched a plan to unlock value in Japanese stocks. Companies trade at discounts to their net cash in many cases and have for years, but that’s changing. PDF: Action to Implement Management that is Conscious of Cost of Capitaland Stock Price

Now that the TSE wants companies to focus on cost of capital and capital efficiency, the long nightmare of value investors in Japan may finally be over, and the charts look good too. 

First is the Nikkei. I see a massive 40-year base. In context with where I see the U.S. market, I expect a pullback that forms the handle rather than a runaway breakthrough.

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