Tonight, I will be spending three hours watching the 50th anniversary special of Saturday Night Live. SNL has spanned the vast majority of my own life, and surely no other show has had a greater influence on American culture over the history of television. Here’s the entirety of the first episode, broadcast in October 1975:
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.
Index Observations
Bullish Setups
You know things are bad when I stoop to offering bullish setups, but that’s just where we’re at.

Live Positions Update
Fifteen iPhones Ago
Just a blast from the past: here’s the original video I made way, way back in 2007 (!) when the iPhone first came out in Palo Alto. Steve Jobs made a surprise visit to the store, and Slope was only a couple of years old.
