With Bitcoin’s huge surge in recent hours, brokerages which are very crypto-oriented are doing great:
(more…)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.
Simultaneously Up and Down
It’s not surprise that the events of the weekend would have an outsized effect on symbol DJT. It roared to above $54 and then eased way back. This is a stock laden with a lot of passion.
(more…)They Cared After All
On Sunday, when the futures markets opened up, the equity futures had a briefly popped and then settled down into virtually unchanged. (Briefly, the /NQ was even a little negative). Over the course of the night, however, the markets absorbed what I assumed are the political ramifications of this weekend and pushed steadily higher. I’ve highlighted in red the brief and peculiar period in which markets completely shrugged everything off. Here’s the /ES:
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