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.

Screwy Chewy

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Considering all the hoo-ha about Roaring Kitty and Chewy (CHWY), particularly his quarter billion dollar stake, you’d expect the stock to be going ape, but it’s actually quite tepid. I guess people aren’t as pumped about a guy who is getting sued for securities fraud. Last week’s rumor had a more outsized effect than the actual dollars-and-cents announcement.

Cleaved Week

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Gosh, didn’t we just have an Independence Day? And now, just days later, we get another? I feel so…………independent! Either that, or I feel like I’m a country where people would rather sit on their asses all the time instead of actually working. Anyhoo, since we have yet another stupid holiday to disrupt our trading activities, we’ll get 3 days, and then a day to sit around and look at each other, and then a one-day week (Friday) which will have the one interesting data point of the whole schmear: the fake unemployment numbers. Plus, although I don’t think it’ll be market-moving, sometime today (it hasn’t come out as of this typing on my keyboard………….) Trump will be granted unlimited immunity for anything he wants to do by the Supreme Court that he now owns. Enjoy!