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.

Qinda Like I Said….

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A month ago, I don’t think the words “quantum computing” had been mentioned in the nearly twenty years of this site’s history. Over the past few weeks, though, we have done a ton of posts about them, specifically engaging in serious eye-rolling about the insane bidding-up of these beyond-speculative equities. Well, none other than Jen Hsun Huang has put the kibosh on this mania, by saying it’s probably about thirty years off. If someone THAT doe-eyed optimistic can make such a statement, well, forget about it. These aren’t tiny downticks, either. They are double-digit percentage slices in just hours.

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Water Dog

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I used to have three dogs. Now I’ve got two, one of whom is more of a fluffy throw pillow than a dog, since he’s too old to do anything except sleep. Thus, I’m really just down to just a single blonde mischief-maker. To stave off depression for the both of us, I’m walking him three times a day instead of just once, because his friend and walking buddy is gone.

the last photo of Coda; she would die nine hours after I took this picture.
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Six Of One …

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In my last post on Monday 30th December I was looking at the options after the big rally from the lows over the previous week. I referred to the prediction I made in my post on 20th December looking for the rally and then lower lows:

‘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. ‘

We have now seen those lower lows on US indices and the question now is what happens next. I see two obvious main options here and was looking at these in detail in my premarket video yesterday morning.

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