The more recent top is creating a much better fall than the prior one:
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.
Excelling at Reversing
I believe stocks have personalities, just like people do. I am drawn to stocks that have exhibited a clear tendency to fall hard when they form a clean top. A favorite of mine these days is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The pas instances of tops followed by big drops is a marvel to behold.
Insults and Fake Markets
I was thumbing through Monday’s New York Times, and there was a huge two-page spread of all the insults Trump has deployed (it’s quite well-organized). Accompanying all this text was a chart showing the quantity of insults over time: (sorry for the low quality scan):
Steady, consistent, and baffling, isn’t it? Remind you of ANYTHING ELSE these days?!?!? (more…)



