
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.
Black Gold the Only Red
For all the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching over Nvidia, now that the world has had the night to digest their earnings data, the result is…………nothing. Honestly, nothing. It’s like you threw ten 2-liter soft drink bottles in the air and they all landed perfectly, standing up straight. You know the big winners here? Options SELLERS! And the losers? Any of those BUYERS (irrespective of bullish/bearish) who thought the stock was going to move in a big way. It’s honestly an incredible result.

Gas Discomfort

Dead Battery
A couple of years ago might as well have been a couple of centuries ago. Gaze your eyes upon one of the hottest stocks of that period, Chargepoint, surging with its SPAC Offering and basking in the glow of Biden’s Build Back Better super-genius plan.

Schlumming It
A favorite of position right now, and one that’s managed to weather the storm, is Schlumberger (SLB) against which I own February $65 puts, presently up 54% from their purchase price. I was delighted today to see that the trendline had finally been broken.
