The indexes remain unbroken, unfazed, and, for the ursine types, un-bear-able.
Still Lofty
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.
Red-Hot Vermont
I visited Vermont only once, when I was a kid, but I fell in love with the place. It looks like everyone else is waking up to the beauty of the state, as it leads the way in housing price gains.
Doing Rails with the VIX
Good Lord………….complacency has reached some extremes that the VIX is about to cross into 11-handle land. I have no problem with this, as people are selling puts dirt cheap since they figure Stonks Only Go Up. What’s next? Single digits?
Terrifically Topping Transports
The market is surging (as usual) but Transports are looking better than ever on the short side. Here is the IYT fund:
Tech Jobs Reality
I think the title for this video is unnecessarily crude, but the video is worth watching. One thing I like in particular is how the interviewee sheds light on what I’ve believe on a long time: that is how most “high tech” works spend the vast majority of their time doing absolutely nothing. I can’t understand this, because it spans my entire adult life. Even as a young man, interning at Apple, I couldn’t understand why virtually the entire building (Sales & Marketing) was empty almost all the time. Anyway, this is a good watch:
