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 SpaceX Plans

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I am tremendously excited about SpaceX, which comes public at the end of this week. There are many reasons for this:

  • I’m a market addict, and this is one of the biggest financial events of our lives;
  • The performance of this stock will have an outsized influence over the long-term trajectory of the Knight clan;
  • There is a real possibility (although it’s being touted much too often for me to believe it) that the SPCX IPO will mark the ultimate top of this insane 18-year-old bull market

There are thousands of possible outcomes to SPCX on its IPO and even just the several trading days that follow, but I’d like to go on record with my worthless guess which is this: I believe it will open very late on Friday (after hours of everyone waiting) with a huge gain from its $135 offer price, and at the end of the day, it will be near its lows for the day, although it’ll still retain a meaningful pop from the IPO.

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Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma’am

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Normally, on a Friday, I will spend the afternoon creating videos and posts for the weekend. Once the trading day is over, I have a few hours to crank out a ton of content – – usually a dozen posts or more – – so that I have a chance of actually not working too much over the weekend itself.

Creating it all in advance gives me a chance to relax.

Not so this time. In spite of having a ton to talk about what is suddenly a very interesting market, I had planned to drive us up to the mountains for the weekend. Thus, I have absolutely zero content for you right now on this beautiful Saturday morning, and I am duty-bound to start creating it. I’ll start with writing about an incident on the way up here.

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