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.

Leslie’s is Drowning

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I’ve got a swimming pool at my house, and in that pool is a cleaning robot. For those of you who also own cleaning robots, you probably know they are made of a bunch of plastic parts which (i) break easily (ii) cost three cents to replace (iii) cost an insane amount of money at the store.

For most folks like me, when a part breaks, they just shrug their shoulders, trundle off to Leslie’s Pool Supply, and pay a ridiculous price just to deal with the damned thing. Again, this is just a plastic part that probably costs less than a dollar in materials to create.

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Shaky Semis

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Good morning, Slopers! Yesterday was terrific, and although we’re definitely seeing some “stocks are on sale!” strength pre-opening, there was some really magnificent technical damage done yesterday. The all-important midline for NVDA (shown below as a dashed line) was, at long last, broken. Better than that, prices just leaped right across the line, instantly changing it from support to resistance.

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