Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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Autumn Fall (by TNRevolution)

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Greetings to my Slope family. Now that we’ve made it to August of this year, the bullish combination of seasonality mixed with the March Fed banking bailout appears to be wearing off. I wanted to take a step back and look at the big picture once again, along with some of my primary positions that I’m holding heading into the end of the summer.

First, let’s take a look at the 10 year crude oil to broader market analog. I think this will be important for both the remainder of this year, but I also believe it will be an important guidepost for what is coming down the pike over the next couple of years. As a reminder, what crude oil did ten years in the past gives us a good echo for what to expect the broader market to do in today’s market. This is not a tick for tick, day by day analog. It also focuses on direction, not magnitude of expected moves.

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AMZN and AAPL Empirical

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As the quarterly reports calendar shows, this afternoon’s big event is the Apple and Amazon earnings releases. I wanted to share the Reaction Graphs for both of these to illustrate, over a very long period, how the market has reacted in the past to these events.

In the case of Amazon, the last three quarters have yielded a negative result (although the last one was quite modest). The gargantuan upside surprises are way in the past.

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Slowly, Then All At Once

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No one has ever asked, but some may be wondering what my interest in /wsb is all about. I simply see it as a unique subculture on the web where young wanna-be traders (who are much closer to degenerate gamblers) convene and throw nonsense around. Sometimes it’s amusing. Occasionally it’s tragic.

This go-around, it’s a bit closer to the latter. I stumbled upon a chap who apparently had his luck YOLOing his way into hundreds of thousands of dollars in gains. Given the insane run-up in crappy stocks from January through July, it’s no surprise. He knew what he was doing was reckless, but he got a huge charge out of it, and he made a lot more money than he lost.

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