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.
Music Break
Well, so ends another piece o’ crap day in the stock market. I’m going to leave for a bit to do ANYTHING except look at a stock chart. Here’s a musical interlude for the meantime.
The Marty Meme
I have decided that whenever the market gets too annoying for words, I shall strike back the only way I know how: with the most obnoxious couple ever broadcast: Marty the creepy puppet and Ron the child-porn-loving canibal-fantasy guy. The market deserves nothing more. I used it in the comments section in the prior post, and the market instantly and obediently stopped going up and began heading lower, as God intended. Be warned, market. Marty is at my disposal.
It Stinks!
To Go Where No VIX Has Gone Before
The rather ridiculous truncated graph shown below seeks to make a point. I am showing the kind of depths the VIX presently is in, and how infrequently it has “lived” there. In fact, for over six years, this is practically uncharted territory. Back in the days of the housing buble, the VIX found itself comfortably around the $11 to $12 level (and, on one occasion, even cracked beneath $10), but, let’s face it, this is a level of complacency virtually unknown to the markets………
