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.

Sky-Growing Trees

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Last Friday and this Monday had an awful lot in common. In each case, the prices absolutely plunged pre-market, and then for no particularly good reason, they rallied monstrously all day long. Apparently Monday’s reason was a bunch of Fed speakers who said interest rates wouldn’t go up anymore. History has shown that the MOST vicious bear markets are when the Fed enters a rate-slashing cycle, so I’m not sure why everyone’s got a woody over this, bu Zerohedge (AKA Goldman Sachs’ mouthpiece) sure is giddy at the prospect of a (ha!) new bull market.

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Masters of War

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Designing, manufacturing, and selling for a profit devices which can maim, mutilate, and incinerate people is a long-standing American industry. I personally don’t believe in the classical Hell, but I suppose if there was one, the senior management of all “Defense” companies would be nice candidates.

In any case, here is a multi-decade chart of Northrop, which had a grand old day and has, quite obviously, been a sensational stock for a very long time.

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Improved Reactions!

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Just in time for earnings season, I wanted to let you know about an important improvement in the Reactions Graph page, which is an exclusive feature for Slope’s awesome Platinum subscribers.

What the reaction page does is, making use of our extremely high quality (and very expensive) data from Wall Street Horizon, we gather up all the reactions to earnings events that have ever taken place for any particular stock. What we’ve added is a new button called Stats.

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