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.

Neurons and Axons

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Back in 2020, I coined the term “ABC” for Accidentally Beneficiaries of Covid (stocks like MRNA and BNTX). Well, I have a new one for you: FAT, which stands for Friends Associated with Trump. The stocks in this group would be like Palantir (Peter Thiel), Tesla (TSLA), and Axon (shown below, which used to be called Taser when I started in this business). As you can see, it has been doing GREAT in the wake of the election.

First Signs of Trouble

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Well, this is just where I want to be. It’s Monday. We’ve got a full week, which means we don’t have to close the market for the Floyd Celebration Festival or something like that. The new server appears to be humming along. And the market is so insanely high, I’m like a kid in a candy store.

The /NQ reached record highs this morning (of course) but appears to be getting a bit raspy at these levels.

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Fantasy Up, Reality Down

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I believed that – – and wrote – -that Trump would win the election for most of 2024. However, I didn’t think it would be a blowout win. I figured he’d lose the popular vote and win the Electoral College. Instead, it was almost a Reagan-level victory. Popular vote: won. Electoral College: won. Senate: won. House: won. Supreme Court: majority.

With all of that, Bitcoin has been celebrating like mad, up $30,000 over the past ten weeks and up over $10,000 since last Monday. It got within spitting distance of $83,000 last night.

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