The world’s most famous maker of sugar water (KO), responsible for God knows how many millions of cases of type-2 diabetes, has seen about 20% of its value vanish.
(more…)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.
Pre-Jobs Video
Bi-Directional Screw-Up?
Earlier today, I told my premium members that I had taken profits on my LQD and XLU long positions. I feel good about LQD, but the jury is still out on XLU. Since I partly blew the puts so bad, I’m wondering if I’m in the midst of blowing the calls as well. Here we see that XLU has challenged support a couple of times, but has yet to break it.
(more…)Making Mobile Better
In spite of my utter dereliction of duty in attending to the needs of Slope of Hope’s mobile users, they have been steadfast. In other words, I designed Slope very self-centered-ly, since I’m a desktop guy, and I’ve got a bunch of big-ass screens. Using Slope on a tablet or, God forbid, a mobile phone, is a sub-optimal experience, to put it very gently.
Yes, we do have a mobile app, and I use it every day myself, but specifically we are really weak and awful when it comes to SlopeCharts. I intend to spend the time and money to change this for the better (and it’s about time…………) since a full 50% of our users are on mobile!
(more…)Aged Like a Fine Whine
Here are the ages of all the Senators in the country, including the checks-three-boxes Senator Butler from California, who is all of 44 years old.