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.

The Ultimate Passive

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Well, he did it. Another million bucks. Ah, here, let me explain. When my father passed away, my siblings and I made the brilliant decision to liquidate his entire portfolio and distribute the cash. Out of curiosity, I made a spreadsheet to track what the profits/losses since those liquidation levels would have been had we done nothing. Well, the numbers speak for themselves.

Over a million extra dollars in profits, with the largest percentage gains coming from AMD and GLW. It seems my siblings are just as dumb as I am!

Bullish ETFs

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I’ll level with you: when I created the empty posts for ETFs, one for bullish and one for bearish, I figured I’d be drowning in bullish charts and might not find any bearish ones.

I have the opposite problem. Crazy as it sounds, practically every ETF is bearish (or at least neutral) whereas I was hard-pressed to find anything even remotely bullish. Indeed, there’s one and only one index ETF which I could, with a straight face, say it kinda-sort bullish if you squint your eyes just right.

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