Very few houses go on the market in Palo Alto, and on my little street, it’s a real rarity. However, recently, a house was put on sale. I took this picture to show it to you.
Curb Schlemiel
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 Faithful
I think I’ve given up trying to understand, but let’s face it, the anonymous gay sex app Grindr has replaced Treasury Bonds as a safe haven among all financial ass-ets. It’s a perma-riser. OK, this concludes the dad jokes.
One Statistical Principle
……. Every Successful Options Trader Follows
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Most successful options traders don’t try to outguess the market. They rely on one of the most time-tested statistical principles: the Law of Large Numbers.
(more…)Pop and Slop
The entire market is raging higher including, sadly, the small caps. MSFT and META provided the gasoline for the fire, but I did want to point out something about both of these: they essentially opened up at their highs and have been selling off ever since. That little fact isn’t fazing the market, but just FYI, here we have Meta slipping beneath its open:
Mayday! Mayday!
Welcome to a new month and the second third of 2025. April would be hard to beat in terms of mayhem, but in this uncertain world, don’t be so sure of anything. For the moment, though, the bulls continue to run roughshod over any surviving bears, as MSFT and META have powered the /NQ up to (and a little above) its Fibonacci level. Evidently, Mark Zuckerberg is going to save the global economy with his website.
