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.

Flagging Equity Markets

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In my last post on Friday 20th December I was looking at the very likely rally that I called that day in my video before the open and that we saw start that day on equity indices and Crypto, and I said the following then about that:

‘How long might this rally last? Well given that today is 20th December I’m thinking this rally may well take us into Xmas and fairly shortly thereafter into lower lows. We shall see. ‘

Obviously today is now 30th December, tomorrow is the last trading day of the year, and as I was saying on Friday 20th December, I was expecting the rally to fail into lower lows shortly after Xmas. That may well be in progress now.

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Annoying Apple

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I’m not sure precisely when woke peaked, but I’m supposing Juneteenth 2021 is as good a candidate as any, which is the day this the 700 pound George Floyd statue (yeah, I’m serious) was installed. Woke has slowly been fading away since then, although it is still very much with us.

I normally don’t give it a second thought until I have to log in to iCloud for some reason. At that point, I am confronted with this presentation on the login screen, which features a variety of faces.

Maybe it bugs me more than it should, but I’m just kind of wondering if, one day, they might insert a face resembling those who INVENTED the semiconductor, CREATED the personal computer, and BUILT the entire software industry. Just some plain-ass white dude like, oh, myself. It’s just a thought. Until then, I guess I’ll just envision myself as a totally harmless Muslim woman whenever I log in.

Skid Marks

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There is a website whose sole purpose in life is to track Michael Saylor’s bitcoin purchases and provide updates on the average purchase price. This is interesting for MSTR “investors” because, of course, the company has little else to show for itself except for its holdings of a bunch of encrypted 1s and 0s. The average price for the $54 billions of $BTC this guy has bought is about $62,000.

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