It’s surprising to me how much of my musical taste has been shaped by movies. I discovered Beethoven through Clockwork Orange. I discovered Prokofiev through Love and Death. And I discovered Honky Tonk from Blue Velvet.
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.
Light in the Darkness
I got a real scare this morning, when I saw one of my short positions, Lumen (LUMN) was absolutely roaring higher thanks to Mark Zuckerberg prancing out and announcing that META and LUMN were going to enter into a partnership related to — what else? – – AI. Mercifully, after the market digested the news for a bit, they decided that it was a total BFD situation.
False Dilemma Fallacy
Time to learn something new this morning, folks, and it’ll be especially germane during the fifteen days ahead of us. I was prompted to write this post based on a comment left by one of you yesterday.
There is a common logical fallacy known as the False Dilemma. You can read all about it with the hyperlink provided but allow me a simple example I just made up: let’s say the good people of the U.S. Government required that every citizen declare whether they were a Catholic or an Atheist.
Obedient citizen that I am, I would come before the bureaucrat, and he would ask, “So, Mr. Knight, are you a Catholic?” to which my honest answer would be “No.” He may then reply, “Ah, got it. So, you’re a damned atheist. Thank you for your time.“
(more…)Silver Tuning Fork
Happy New Week, everyone. I was pleased to see silver leaping higher again, but I’ve taken a couple of actions with both the short-term and the long-term in mind.
Current Favorites
I’ve got fourteen different short positions (all of them constructed simply as long puts expiring in January, March, or April). Here are my seven favorites among them, and as always, click on any chart for a larger version.
