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 Brazilian Penance

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I have, as some of you know, been beating myself up endlessly for what it surely one of my biggest screw-ups of the entire year, which was dumping my IYR puts (now up 250% from the dumpage). I intend to heal my soul with another trade which, as of now, looks idiotic, but I intend to not wimp out on. Specifically, Brazil (symbol EWZ). For reasons quite beyond me, this has been strong lately, and we got quite close to this gap.

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Fear & Failure

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Let me share a personal experience and hope you and I can both learn something from it.

I’m not sure precisely when it began, but this premium post from March 7th is a good place to start. In the post, I make it abundantly clear that the real estate fund IYR is one of my favorite analogs of all time (using such words as “crazy about this analog” and “just ga-ga”). I’m certain this wasn’t my first post about it, but it is at least one where I put a stake very firmly in the ground that I am bonkers about the IYR short.

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