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.

Well-Deserved Demise

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I never understood PayPal’s success. They were a big deal back in the mid 1990s, and deservedly so, but they haven’t really innovated in over a quarter of a century. I found it especially comic a couple of years back when they trotted out advertisements positioning themselves as an AI company (!!!!!)

I can tell you that as both a user and a developer, Paypal is junk, so its nearly 90% (!!!!!!!!!) price decrease makes all the sense in the world. Nice to see there’s a little rationality hiding in some corners of even this market.

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Groundhog Gyrations

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Last week, as we approach trading on Thursday (green oval), I figured it was all over for the bears. Everything was positive for the bulls, we seemed poised for lifetime highs across the board, IBM and META were blowing doors off, etc. You know what happened next. Conversely, on Sunday night (red oval), I was in here high fiving everyone about how the wheels were coming off, Bitcoin was crashing, the /NQ was plunging, and then…………Monday…………green across the board! Let’s just say overnight sessions often don’t mean a damned thing.

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