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.

Three For The Road

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After I wrote the other day about Walmart’s weak chart, it shot higher, up about 14% for the year. Dummy me hadn’t even checked their earnings date when I wrote the piece.

After Walmart’s earnings report this morning, Investopedia wrote that “all 12 of the analysts tracked by Visible Alpha with recent assessments recommend buying shares.”  If they liked shares at $102, I imagine they like them even better now around 98.

Walmart’s earnings didn’t meet analyst earnings projections of $0.73, and instead were $0.68.  Gee, a $0.05 difference and the stock price slides.  (Recall at their prior earnings report in February that WMT said to expect lower earnings.)

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Airborne

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It’s good to be done with my short trip and be back on the ground where I belong in my beloved Palo Alto. Hopefully I won’t be anywhere near an airport (as a passenger, at least) for many months to come. It was terribly frustrating to be in the sky during the market day with Wi-Fi that was worse than a 110 baud modem from the early 1980s, but considering how the /YM absolutely REFUSES to make up its mind about which way it wants to go, it seems I didn’t miss much.

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UPS Update

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Hey everybody, I hope you are doing well. Just a quick update from me on my outlook for UPS while Tim is travelling today. The first chart below displays the near term perspective of the chart. Following the earnings release on July 29, 2025 the stock had a large decline, falling below what I considered to be the next level of support. This is displayed by the bottom orange line, just below $90/share. Over the course of the past three weeks, price consolidated under this level and has now begun to move lower again.

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Gold Is Revolution

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Gold is revolution against an expiring system that is still limping along

The expiring system (in progress for years, actual expiration date unknown) has limped along, through Fed (monetary) and government (fiscal) oversight, fabulously enriching the rich and impairing the middle and lower classes. The system has tilted the playing field heavily in favor of the ruling class. Yes, I am writing from within and about America.

It is beyond the scope of this article to go too far into the details, but money created out of nowhere (monetary) and spent into circulation (fiscal) must go somewhere. Where it goes is into assets and asset markets.

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