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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.
WallyWorld Revisted
Walmart. Sam Walton opened the first store in 1962 in Bentonville, Arkansas, and the company has done nothing but grow since. Despite that success, Walmart’s stock does not always go up.
With the uncertainty of the effect of tariffs placed on imports from China, in their earnings report of February 20, 2025 Walmart acknowledged that earnings for 2025 would be below expectations.
On 3Mar25 I did a post on Walmart reflecting that its chart looked vulnerable to downside risk. As it turned out, it was a timely post, price dropping the next trading day and ending a month later at the year’s low. In the daily chart below, the purple highlight on the left marks the date of that post. Note where the Ichimoku Cloud is (green & red dotted horizontals).
(more…)Swatted FLYE
The Unspoken For
Out of the 30 equities I have in the Bear Pen, there are 13 of them in which I have no positions for one reason or another. They are all still interesting short prospects and worth monitoring.
Weekend Crypto
Although Bitcoin reached its highest level in history (rising from one penny in 2009 to almost $125,000 this week), there was no follow-through, and the trendline that seems to have a magnetic grip on the price is still doing its job.
