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.

My Girlfriend in Canada

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Happy New Week, everyone. This is a shortened week (although at least this time the holiday is one I respect, so it’s not quite so awful), so we only get four days of war-driven lunacy to trade.

I was bracing myself all night long for the Monday Morning Lie, traumatized as I was by what happened precisely one week ago. On Sunday, the market gapped down fairly hard (left arrow) but then spent all night long climbing. Finally, once again a couple of hours before the opening bell, the Pre-Market Fib was launched, and the market spiked (right arrow).

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True March Madness

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Most of you know I watch sports basically not-at-all. What’s weird is that the EXTREMELY rare occasions I do watch them, something incredible happens. It’s quite strange. The latest was today, when my wife and I went to a sports bar (which feels weird even just to type) and watched the Duke/UConn game. The last ten seconds were………surprising.

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