Every morning, I wake up to a weirder world. P. Diddy’s houses are raided, and he flees to the Carribean in his private jet. Nicole Shanahan beats out Jesse Ventura as RFK’s VP pick. And giant container ships are taking out massive, vital bridges.
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.
Micro-Cone
This is rather comic: I had forgotten that, among Slope’s hundreds of features, we have the ability to create animated .gif files showing the change of an options volatility cone. Check out Microstrategy’s over the past couple of months. It’s fascinating, and presently, this sucker has become gargantuan.

Dot Com is So 2003
Near Unanimity
The index charts almost all say the same thing: (1) prices are in an ascending channel; (2) there hasn’t been a single violation of the channel since it began about half a year ago; (3) the government isn’t going to allow any kind of dip in equities until the election is over.

Cross Not These Levels
I’m holding the line on my three ETF shorts, both literally and figuratively. Below I’ve highlighted the precise stop-loss level for each one. These put options don’t expire until the final quarter of this year, so there’s plenty of time to be right!


