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.
Saturday Night Cycles
Turning the Gas On
Last year, when this long-term sinewave on natural gas was sky-high, I pointed out the opportunity to go short /NG. Well, this thing has been utterly clobbered, and it seems to me we’ve reached an important low. It sure didn’t take long.
Has the Worm Turned?
Apple’s business model is simple and straightforward: rely on people being so desperate to fill the aching psychic void in their lives that they regularly turn their expensive cell phone into land-fill by “upgrading” to yet another phone with some minuscule and useless marginal feature improvement that they don’t really need. It has worked for years, so much so that Apple is worth trillions, but the cycle seems to be kicking in again to the downside. Indeed, the latest risible rise didn’t even muster the strength to tag resistance. Diver down, baby.
