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.
Vow-Free China
Looks like marriage is quickly going out of style in the middle kingdom.
(more…)ETFs Pointing Lower
With just hours until election day, let’s look at five ETFs which seem to suggest lower equity prices ahead. The first one is the Dow 30 “diamonds”, which has completed a top (in pink).
(more…)Cliff!
This just goes to show how little I pay attention to earnings dates: two of my short positions are having nice after-hours tumbles.
(more…)Openings are Closing
I’m a lucky man. I love my job, and I haven’t had a “real” job since 1991. Not so lucky are our fellow citizens who are facing an increasingly nasty jobs market. Let’s face it folks: if Google already generates 25% of their in-house code with AI, the prospects for middling programmers pretty much sucks.
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