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.

Old Grandad

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Strap in. This one’s a doozy.

So, here’s a chap who took the entirety of his inheritance and decided it would be a capital ideal to put every penny of it into DJT $40 calls. Yes, 1,654 contracts, a seven-figure position, and all dependent upon the price ascent of a company that has done nothing but lose hundreds of millions of dollars. It began to dawn on him this might have been an error in judgement a few days ago when he made this post.

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Why I Ditched NFLX

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As a follow-up to my prior post, I wanted to talk about why I did the following on Tuesday morning:

You see, I bought NFLX Puts last Friday based on what I perceived as a topping pattern. I saw in SlopeCharts that earnings were going to be happening Tuesday afternoon, and although that sort of thing doesn’t typically scare me out of position, I took another look at the chart and had one of those what-were-you-thinking moments. Specifically………..

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