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.

The Final Chapter

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My experiment with publishing my first work of fiction, Solid State, is complete, and I’d say it went well. My main mission was to see if this 73-chapter monster could actually sustain the attention of my readers or not.

Judging from the daily view count chart, shown below, it seems that the number of actual readers day to day, as each chapter came out, was quite steady, so I’m pleased to see this chart didn’t simply slope down over time to zero. (The big dips early on were due to the fact I wasn’t sending out chapters on weekends, which folks insisted I change, so after that the graph is steady).

A small favor, if I may: if you read the book and enjoyed it, please leave a nice review on Amazon. It’ll only take a minute, and it’ll really help me out. Thank you!

Healthy Digestion

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There are a couple of properties that characterize my life. One, I spend a huge amount of time alone (God help me), and two, I spend almost all of that alone time either reading or writing. One of the “reads” I enjoy most each day is Slope’s own Daily Digest, which gets shipped out to everyone who wants it at 2 p.m. PST every day of the year.

I’ve heard some of you haven’t been getting it, so we did some cleaning and fine-tuning of our email system last night, which should expand its reach. You can control whether or not you get this digest on your Profile page, and if you expect it and don’t get it this afternoon, please drop me a line!

Gathering Storms

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In the last couple of weeks of October I was writing about the likelihood of seeing a bullish November, and we saw that, but it wasn’t really what I had in mind. The bullish part came when Trump won the presidential election and, on SPX at least, the rest of the month was spent retesting that high, with both SPX and ES both now at new all time highs from there.

I was looking for more, and we might still get more, but more than half of the bullish window into Xmas is now behind us, and the news coming from the coming new administration is already starting to disturb the markets.

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