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.

One Stock Does Not a Market Make

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Greetings from the Eastern Time Zone. Now that I’m more-or-less back in the saddle again electronically (albeit with slower computers and far fewer screens, which always makes me feel hobbled), I can put in a sorta kinda normal work day. Please understand that, until next Wednesday, the rat-a-tat pace of my posts won’t quite be there.

So the world has decided the only stock that matters is a former maker of gaming graphics cards that has been the beneficiary of AI fever.

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Any Way You Slice It

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Since my schedule is complete wackadoodle, I’ll put up a midnight post about – what else? – pizza. Below is a chart of Domino’s (symbol DPZ) which at one time I thought would be a great long-time short. This beast can’t seem to break down. Instead, it stays entrenched in a huge, slow-moving range, so I don’t touch this creature anymore, although perhaps a year from now we’ll look back at a mega-top. I just don’t trust it, however.

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