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.
Friday Morning’s Earnings
Let’s, uhhh, not dwell on what happened Thursday for a little while, OK? Because “disappointment” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Here are the big companies reporting earnings Friday morning, which will kick off the Q3 2022 earnings season.

Gruesome Twosome
Mistake Goes Mega
I’ve spilled many barrels of digital ink whining about the fact I fled my huge IYR put position in mid-August at just about the most terrible time to do so. I obsessively watch the Could Have Been figure, and now my puts, which I dumped at $3.10, are 19.25 x 19.45, and they’ve still got 22 days left on them. I’ll remember this one on my deathbed, people. What a genius chart, and what a colossal fumble.

