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.

Blow Me!……Evil Plan 69.0 (by BDI)

By -

41O2qklE4HL

 

 

Hey TK;

Thanks so much for having invited me, and providing me with the fantastic opportunity to participate in this wonderful & engaging world you have created online. In my humble opinion, the Almighty creator thinks most highly of us, when we ourselves also use our creative capacities, adding to the mystery that is life, and you clearly have done that here.

I regret to inform you, that I have decided to move on, as I can no longer intelligently engage in this faux market.  It has gotten so bad at this point, that I simply have lost interest in something which I use to find so intriguing, and which gave me the greatest of pleasure.

I simply am unable to join in with the momo trend followers, whom I believe mistakenly confuse their trading acumen & brilliant timing, with a stock market that has simply been hijacked by the FED & TBTF banks;-) 

I fear we will all pay dearly one day soon, for this lack of dignified leadership, mature responsibility & courage, being so consistently recklessly demonstrated by those in positions of trusted authority, when they clearly should know better.

Fortunately, even with the considerable beating I have taken in Q1 of 2012, I still somehow have manged to depart quite a bit ahead since I started in the late Summer of 2008, so I can not complain too much on that score.

Again, thank you very much for letting me participate, and so generously permitting me to share my thoughts as an avid, and enthusiastic SOH guest contributor.  I would like to think that a few of my macro market observations / header posts, may have added some color & intrigue to your superior financial blog. I only hope that I have not mislead too many lurkers, with my unorthodox DOOM & BOOM Idiot Savant methodology.

I have nothing but good thought about you, and all the wonderful Slopers that you have attracted to your stimulating blog, and yes that even includes the misguided momo trend following, chart humping, price chasing, Bernanke whores;-)

All the best, and best of luck to all…………perhaps I will see you in the Fall

The-joker-10-blueZ

BDI SOH's Idiot Savant

The Rain in Spain……Evil Plan 47.0 (by BDI)

By -

3263390

Are the embolden bulls going to continue their torrid rampage through the narrow streets of Pamplona, skewering every petrified bear that stands in their path?   Is the energizer bunny going to simply hop, skip, and jump directly to Dow 15,000 by Easter Sunday?  Will the mad mad mad market mavens, falling all over themselves, calling for the traditional, pitiful, end of quarter window-dressing ramp, be proven correct once again?  Is our future so bright, that we will always have to wear shades from now on?  

(more…)

The Gravy Train Derails…………..Evil Plan 43.0 (by BDI)

By -

Gravy-Train-57239

Back from Europe, I had a very tranquil time with some of my extended french family over the past two weeks.  Bretagne by the sea is enchanting.  The thing that struck me the most while shooting the breeze with my cousins, was the complete disconnect between the serious economic down turn they are now facing, that is expect to get much worse, and the CAC 40 stock market which is on an absolute tare.  Something doesn't add up here, and it smells like the stench of rotten fish guts on a Normandy dock.  

(more…)