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.

Best Posts of 2023 (Part 3 of 9)

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Here are some of the very best posts written on Slope in the year 2023. To read a preface about what this list means to me, please read part 1, located here.

  • Leeward – On the stabbing murder of a tech CEO in San Francisco
  • Taking Myself to Task – Thinking through some grand screw-ups
  • The Big One – An exploration of my EFA Bearish Position
  • Cohen-cidence – Steve Cohen says buy stocks. Turns out he was right.
  • Thrust THIS – Me making fun of Whaley Breadth Thrust, which was a mistake.

Stock Market Melt Up Continues

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As Anticipated, Gold Lurks, Changes to Come in 2024. The macro market backdrop is not likely to go the way trend following market watchers currently anticipate.

In fact, with patience it could turn out to be like shooting contrary fish in a barrel. The stock market rally – which NFTRH had anticipated a year ago on a larger basis and since October of this year for its next leg on a more compact time frame – is doing a wonderful job of holding to its seasonal pattern (see below). The rally is sucking in the holdout FOMOs who, one by one are falling for the dual pleasantries of a softening Fed and by extension, a Goldilocks-like “soft landing” scenario for the economy.

Goldilocks was eventually caught by the 3 bears
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Best Posts of 2023 (Part 2 of 9)

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Here are some of the very best posts written on Slope in the year 2023. To read a preface about what this list means to me, please read part 1, located here.