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 Reader’s Reflections

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One gentleman wrote to me, prompted by my Best of 2023 post. I thought it was a tremendous email, and he kindly gave me permission to share it with everyone here. Minor edits and emphasis are by me for clarification.


Hi Tim,

Read your post today and it struck me as a very sad moment, I would just say I’m frankly amazed you have lasted this long both shorting the market and providing the web site and videos on Tastytrade .Your daily videos are an absolute pleasure to watch for anyone wanting a snapshot of the markets.

Like you I started trading over twenty years ago and have become more and more sickened at what I see every day and especially when the market tries to correct the manipulation and is then manipulated even more. I believe that now we will never have real markets ever again, it is now a centrally planned economy with centrally planned bond and stock markets, “they” have complete control over EVERYTHING.

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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.