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.
Update On Our Better Way To Play Bitcoin
Sell Degeneration
Hey, here’s an eye-opening surprise: Wall Street analysts are almost universally positive about the mega-caps! Gosh! Honestly, this is laughable if it weren’t so serious:
Just One to Go
I made three specific predictions about the DOGE effort:
- ONE: They would never find any meaningful “savings“, and in fact the federal budget would probably go UP as opposed to the $2 trillion they “pledged” to save
- TWO: There could only be one leader, so Vivek would ditch the effort
- THREE: Before April 2025 was over, Elon would be bored and tired of it and leave as well.
As of today, numbers ONE and TWO have already been achieved. Number THREE is coming, and I gave it a deliberately generous deadline. I wouldn’t be surprised if he blew the whole thing off within the next eight weeks. As with every other cynical prediction I’ve laid out about this new era……….you’ll see.
Contrarian Pivot?
The stock market’s trends are up, but a contrarian pivot point is likely on the horizon
Excerpted from the January 19 edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 845
As an intro to this fundamentally bearish article, I would like to state that strictly as a technical analyst, I have a bullish view of the US stock market. There can be no other view for a TA, given the firm uptrends. But from the macro-fundamental side of things, danger signals aplenty manifested in 2024, into the new year.
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