Different Extremes
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.
Trading A Wild Week In EV Stocks
Recoil
We’ve all been anxious to see what the effects on the futures markets would be following yesterday’s first U.S. assassination attempt in nearly half a century. I’m only bringing this observations ten minutes after the opening bell, but so far, the /ES doesn’t care….
Ozempic’s Lucky Source
It was pointed out to me that my post about the astonishing LLY chart was incorrect, since the image of Ozempic within the chart incorrectly suggested they made the stuff. Sorry about that! I didn’t realize NVO is actually the lucky duck that sells this thing, which evidently 1 out of every 8 Americans have jabbed into their puffy flesh. Here, as I stand corrected, is the actual maker (this time with a less dramatic log scale chart).
Very Long-Term Gold
Let’s get back to the financial markets. Permanently, I think.
I’ve been a bit obsessed with gold, but I wanted to see data beyond just the past couple of decades, so I dug a lot deeper. I have constructed for you some charts from Excel that present over a century’s worth of gold prices. The first one is daily data back to 1968, updated through this week, on a standard arithmetic scale.
