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.

Ursinela Andress

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Well, for anyone who lost sleep over my SPY $660 put options, it worked out great with a nearly overnight doubling. Below I’ve marked where I bought them with green arrows. I bought my first block (intending it to be the entire position), but after that lying sack o’ shit Bibi did his ridiculous “all is well” press conference and blasted markets higher, I threw caution to the win and DOUBLED the size of the position. The red arrows marked the places where I sold ’em off, fast as a sumbitch. HUZZAH!

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Promised Miracles

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Over the three weeks that this war has been going on, there has been one consistent event: the President’s persistent pledges that this whole thing was going to be over Real Soon Now or that, indeed, it was already over. In point of fact, Trump expressed outrage that Iran was still shooting at ships in the Strait since it wasn’t “fair” that they do that since the war was already won (in “the first hour“, by his own account).

To anyone and everyone buying stocks based on these pledges of the conflict’s imminent completion, please meditate for a moment on this item I remember so well from March 2020:

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